The Spring Festival break finished up Saturday and it's been smooth sailing in terms of transport.
According to the Spring Rush office at the Ministry of Railways, the seven day Spring Festival holiday saw over 31 million passengers on the rails, with over 29 hundred temporary trains deployed to help with the load.
The railway department reports 6.5 million ticket sales made through internet and telephone booking. That's over 20 percent of total ticket sales nation-wide. As for air travel, preliminary numbers show over 41, 000 flights between January 22nd and Jan 28th, up by 5.7% on last year.
Those planes carried over 5.4 million passengers, an increase of 7.2 percent. Road traffic accidents numbered nearly 18 hundred, leaving 547 people killed and 2,080 injured, with direct property losses tallying over 5.6 million yuan. These were all down significantly compared to last year.
春节长假已于周六正式宣告结束,人们已经搭乘各种交通工具平安顺利返回自己熟悉的工作岗位中。
根据春运铁道部统计,春节长假期间铁路承载超过3100万名乘客,有超过2900辆临时列车参与部署协助工作。