Chinese mobile users sent about 23 billion text messages during Chinese New Year, a year-on-year increase of ten percent, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, cited by the Beijing Times.
Chinese railway police have arrested 446 people for scalping train tickets during the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Ministry of Public Security said Monday.
A total number of 64.15 million people travelled on China's roads on Saturday, the 22nd day of the Spring Festival traffic rush, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) said Sunday.
Cross-bank card transactions rose 47 percent year on year to 56.9 billion yuan (US$8.33 billion) on the Chinese mainland during the Spring Festival holiday, China UnionPay said Saturday.
Tourism booms in southwest China's quake-hit Sichuan province during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday despite sharp temperature fall.
China saw 7,480 fires across the country this Spring Festival holiday, which killed 35 people and led to direct losses worth 28.5 million yuan (US$4.17 million), the Ministry of Public Security said Saturday.
China's train passengers totalled 6.33 million on Friday, the busiest day in the country's history falling at end of the Spring Festival holiday, the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said Saturday.
China's railways are challenged by travel rush after the Spring Festival as millions of people begin to return to work after the festival holiday.
Railways in China are expected to face the post-holiday travel peak today and tomorrow, when millions of travelers return to their workplaces as the weeklong Spring Festival celebration draws to an end.
Dozens of vendors temporarily closed the entrance of the temple fair at Shijingshan Amusement Park in Beijing on Thursday to protest what they said was improper management that had seriously affected their income.
Coach and railway terminals in major Chinese cities are bracing for a fresh travel rush, as millions of festival travelers set foot on return trips to city work after a week-long holiday.
Authorities in south China's Guangdong Province Wednesday warned drivers about ice on an expressway linking the province with the capital, Beijing, as holidaymakers head back to work after the Spring Festival.
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