Tourism spike: Visitors walking through Yu Garden during National Day in Shanghai, China. — Bloomberg
The nation’s national railway recorded 23.13 million trips on the first day of the country’s eight-day National Day holiday, up nearly 8% from a year earlier and setting a single-day record, state media CCTV reported.
More than 19 million trips were expected to be made on the railway network yesterday, CCTV said. The Yangtze River Delta Railway alone was forecast to handle four million passengers, a more than 10% increase from the previous year.
