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.
春節長假已于周六正式宣告結束,人們已經搭乘各種交通工具平安順利返回自己熟悉的工作崗位中。
根據春運鐵道部統計,春節長假期間鐵路承載超過3100萬名乘客,有超過2900輛臨時列車參與部署協助工作。