CCTV News:
During the three days of the Qingming holiday, people everywhere walked out of their homes one after another, and consumption in tourism, catering, and travel has picked up significantly.
During the Ching Ming holiday, Heilongjiang Province's first intra-provincial tourism train this year, carrying more than 500 passengers from Harbin, embarked on an outing trip.
Returning home to make sacrifices and outings directly drove the increase in passenger flow of civil aviation and railways.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Transport, from April 3 to 5, the country is expected to send 144.52 million passengers, an increase of 142% over the Ching Ming holiday last year.
Among them, civil aviation is expected to transport 4.328 million passengers, a significant increase of 256.4% over the Ching Ming holiday last year.
In terms of railways, the Qingming holiday sent more than 10 million passengers a day.
During the Ching Ming holiday, the popularity of surrounding tours and inter-provincial tours has also led to a significant rebound in consumption such as catering and accommodation.
Two days before the Qingming holiday, the Net Union clearing platform processed a total of 1.72 trillion yuan in online payment transactions, an increase of 48.9% over the same period last year.
The transaction value of some branded catering merchants has more than doubled year-on-year.
The amount of online payment transactions related to film and television entertainment nationwide increased by more than 2 times year-on-year.
The transaction value of UnionPay network in two days was 585.8 billion yuan, an increase of 3.9% over the same period last year.
Among them, the transaction amount on the first day of the Qingming Festival holiday increased by 12.7% compared with the same period last year.