End of Chinese Spring Festival sparks massive rush to megacities

20:35, February 21, 2018

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  China's Spring Festival travel rush recedes

  The Spring Festival travel rush has started to recede as 5.5 million railway trips were expected to be made on the last day of the Year of Rooster, a decline of more than 37 percent from the previous day.Railway passenger traffic on Wednesday was 8.825 million, up 4.8 percent or 403,000 from a year earlier, according to the statistics released

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  The old and new of Chinese Spring Festival

  Despite the unwillingness of many to return to work, on Wednesday the curtain finally dropped on the week-long holiday in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year.The Spring Festival holiday not only has become a time for family gatherings and cultural activities, but also a boom time for businesses across the globe.People visit a lantern fair in Hengshui, north China's

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  Air travel reaches new heights amid fewer overall trips during Spring Festival

  More people are traveling by air during this year's Spring Festival holidays compared to last year, while travel by road, though still the main mode of travel, recorded notably fewer trips.The number of trips in general in the first half of this year's Spring Festival travel rush declined 3.11 percent between the first and 15th of February compared with last