China News Agency, Beijing, June 14 (Reporter Zhou Yin) The Ministry of Transport of China disclosed on the 14th that the national railway, highway, water transport, and civil aviation are expected to send 124 million passengers during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday this year (June 12-14). Person-times, an average of 41.232 million person-times per day, an average daily decrease of 18.8% over the same period in 2019 (Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the same below), and an average daily increase of 52.5% over the same period in 2020.
Data map: The waiting hall of Xi'an Railway Station during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Photo by Li Ziyu
During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the railway is expected to send 31.672 million passengers, an average of 10.557 million per day, an average decrease of 17.4% over the same period in 2019, and an average increase of 58.1% over the same period in 2020; the highway is expected to send 86.35 million passengers, an average of 28.783 million per day , An average daily decrease of 16.9% compared to the same period in 2019, and an average daily increase of 52.1% compared to the same period in 2020; the waterway is expected to send 1.694 million passengers, an average of 655,000 passengers per day, an average daily decrease of 61.6% compared to the same period in 2019, and an average daily increase of 52.1% compared to the same period in 2020. The average increase was 20.5%; civil aviation is expected to send 3.71 million passengers, an average of 1.237 million per day, an average daily decrease of 25.3% over the same period in 2019, and an average daily increase of 40.1% over the same period in 2020.
According to the Ministry of Transport, during the holidays, small passenger vehicles charge normally, and public travel is mainly short- and medium-distance tourism and family visits. The traffic volume has increased. From June 12 to 14, the total volume of highways across the country is expected to be 106,096,500, which is an average daily The traffic volume was 35,365,500 vehicles, an average daily increase of 8.12% over the same period in 2019, and an average daily increase of 12.22% over the same period in 2020.
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