By August 31, the number of passenger trips on China’s railway network is expected to reach 520 million, and 10 million on peak days.
The national railway is also opening new stations such as the Xiangwan section of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway, the Puzheng section of the Jizheng high-speed railway, the Heruo railway, and the Beijing Fengtai station.
Last year, the number of passenger trips on the national rail network reached 462 million during the summer season, which is a 62-day period ending on August 31.
Late last summer, travel took a hit when the more infectious Delta variant caused outbreaks, prompting authorities across the country to impose measures that included mass testing of millions of people as well as travel restrictions of varying degrees in August. These restrictions have particularly affected the restaurant, transport, accommodation and entertainment sectors.
During the summer of 2020, 456 million passenger journeys were made by rail. These numbers are a far cry from pre-pandemic levels, when the country’s rail passenger traffic for the summer of 2019 was 735 million trips, a year-on-year increase of 69.256 million, or 10.4%.
Beijing on Wednesday eased COVID-19 quarantine requirements and modified its state-mandated mobile app used for local travel, triggering a spree on online searches for Chinese airline tickets on the lines. domestic and international.
Strict measures will still be applied in station wagons, such as temperature measurement and code checking, dispersed waiting, ventilation and disinfection, reserved isolation seats and strict control of the occupancy rate trains, the railroad department said Thursday.