Passengers walk along the platform at Nanchang Station in East China's Jiangxi Province on June 2, 2025, as China's railway system saw a peak in return travel on the final day of the Dragon Boat Festival holidays. Photo: VCG

China's transport sector handled a total of 653.7 million inter-regional trips nationwide during the Dragon Boat Festival holidays from Saturday to Monday, averaging 217.9 million trips per day, or a 2.5 percent increase year-on-year, according to the latest data released by China's Ministry of Transport on Tuesday.

Of these trips, railway passenger traffic reached 48.03 million, averaging 16.01 million passengers per day, up 4.3 percent year-on-year. Highway traffic totaled 597.32 million trips, averaging 199.11 million per day, a 2.4 percent increase. Air travel saw 5.63 million trips, with a daily average of 1.88 million, rising 1.7 percent year-on-year, according to the ministry.

Global Times