China expects highway traffic to set record during Labour Day holiday

Visitors wearing face masks to protect against Covid-19 walk across a causeway at the West Lake in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, Sunday, April 4, 2021. Domestic tourists were out in force at some of China's most popular tourist sites on a holiday weekend as the country continues to report few new cases of coronavirus within its borders. - AP

BEIJING, April 27 (Reuters): Travel during China's upcoming Labour Day holiday is expected to surge, with highway traffic on May 1 alone likely to exceed 60 million vehicles and set a new high, the government said on Tuesday.

Traffic on the national highway network will likely surpass the record 57 million vehicles clocked on May 1, 2019, said the transport ministry's Highway Monitoring and Response Center.