East China’s Jiangsu province is bracing for the spring festival travel rush that begins on January 21 and lasts until March 1st.
The provincial department of transportation predicts that 609.2 million trips will be made in the province during the spring festival with obvious growth in railway and air travel and remarkable decline in highway travel.
Highway travel will constitute the bulk of the spring festival passenger flow as the province is expecting 349.7 million highway trips during the 40—day travel rush, a decline of 5.4% from a year ago.
227.48 million railway trips are expected to be made during the travel rush, surging by 3.4% year on year.
3.2 million passengers will take flights during the travel rush, up 8% year on year.
27000 people will choose to travel by waterways, climbing 12.5% from a year ago.
Self-drive tours will increase by 10% from a year ago, the transportation authority said.
The province's urban bus passenger traffic is expected to hit 770 million, indicating diversified passenger travel modes.
70% of the passengers will head home for the family reunion to be in line with the Chinese tradition of celebrating the lunar new year.
12% of the passengers will make travels to see their relatives and friends.
The Spring Festival Travel Rush, also known as Chunyun and Chunyun Migration in Chinese, or Chinese New Year Travel Rush, Lunar New Year Travel Rush is the largest human migration on earth happening annually. It usually begins 15 days ahead of the Chinese New Year and 25 days after, lasting for 40 days. The Chunyun 2019 lasts from January 21 to March 1. During the Spring Festival Rush, China, especially its railway system, faces an extremely high traffic load, which results in great difficulties to obtain a ticket, crowded railway stations and train carriages.
（source：ourjiangsu.com ）
