01-19-2011 20:01 BJT Special Report:2011 Spring Festival |
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China has begun its annual Spring Festival travel rush, with more than 2.5 billion expected passenger trips in the coming 40 days. Extra airlines and trains have been added to cope with the passenger surge, which is 11.6 percent up year on year.
It is the time of the year people must go home. And this is the world's largest human migration.
Traveller Xia Jianzhang said, "It's really hard to get a ticket. I am trying to buy a train ticket to Wuhan, and I have to start queuing for it 10 days ahead. I checked with the ticket agent yesterday, they said they haven't started selling tickets, but when I went there this morning, they told me all the tickets had been sold out."
A spokesman for the Ministry of Railways says travelling by train is still the first choice for most Chinese people, especially during the Spring Festival travel season.
Wang Yongping, spokesman of Railway Ministry,said, "No matter how many seats we are able to provide, tickets are always sold out every year, so the transport capacity of railways is far from meeting the demand of travelers, and the number of travelers this year is more than ever before."
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| Passengers board a train at Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 19, 2011, the first day of the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush. China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) estimated that 2.85 billion passenger trips would be made during the period, 11.6 percent more than last year. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao) |
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