Road passengers up in first 10 days of "chunyun"( Xinhua) 09:01, January 26, 2014 BEIJING, Jan. 25 -- The number of road passengers in China rose 4.7 percent to 867million in the first 10 days of chunyun, a 40-day period of travel rush around the SpringFestival, new data showed Saturday.
Road passengers, or those on long-distance scheduled coaches, charted buses or tourcoaches, reached 94.38 million on Saturday, up 6.9 percent year on year and up 1.89percent from Friday, data from the Ministry of Transport showed.
The Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, is China's most important traditionalholiday for family reunions. Drastic surge of travellers put great pressure on the road,railway and air transportation systems.
The coming Lunar New Year falls on Jan. 31. This year's chunyun, literally translated as"spring transportation", runs from Jan. 16 to Feb. 24.
The ministry has forecast that Chinese passengers will make 3.62 billion trips during thisyear's chunyun, including 3.2 billion trips by road.
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