Millions on the move after holiday
By Yang Jian and Zha Minjie |
January 30, 2012, Monday
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The Spring Festival holiday is over but chunyun, or the spring rush, will continue to February 16, as tens of millions of people head back to the cities where they work or study after spending time with their families.
However, rainfall and snow in some parts of the country is expected to affect their journeys.
In most parts of southern China, rain and snow is forecast during the upcoming peak.
Shanghai Railway Bureau, the rail operator of eastern China, estimates that the first wave of passengers returning to the city will last until Thursday.
More services have been added to deal with the numbers of passengers expected.
More than 6.65 million passengers traveled by train on Saturday, the last day of the holiday but many had decided to return earlier.
"I brought with me three fellows from hometown," said a man, surnamed Li, a Jiangsu Province native who works in Shanghai as a mover. Local moving companies are short of workers, Li said.
He arrived in Shanghai last Thursday by bus, after a short reunion with his family.
Shanghai's long-distance bus stations said many migrant workers make the city as a transit point to industrial zones close to Shanghai in the Yangtze Delta region such in as Jiangsu Province's Kunshan and Taicang.
There was tragedy on Saturday when two workers were killed and dozens of others injured in a bus crash on a Shanghai-Nanjing expressway. Traffic was severely affected after the accident.
The country's airports have been busy, with domestic airlines transporting 5.43 million passengers between January 22 and 28, an increase of 7.2 percent compared to last year, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said yesterday.
Flights to Hong Kong and Macau were the most popular, the regulator said, with flights to Hong Kong 80 percent full and those to Macau flights even busier at 95 percent capacity.
However, many passengers had been stranded in south China due to bad weather last week.
More than 100 flights, mostly domestic, were cancelled or delayed at south China airports over the weekend because of heavy fog and rain.
Earlier, about 5,000 passengers were stranded at Meilan International Airport in Hainan Province on Friday after 111 flights were canceled.
Some angry passengers tried to get on to the runway in protest, but were stopped by airport police. No flights were affected by the protest.
Carriers added more than 100 flights yesterday to transport the passengers as the fog cleared.
In Guangdong Province, eight departing and three arriving flights were cancelled on Friday night at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport because of poor visibility.
Shanghai Airport Authority said yesterday that the city's two airports handled more than 1.27 million passengers during the holiday, a 7.29 percent increase over the same period of last year.
However, rainfall and snow in some parts of the country is expected to affect their journeys.
In most parts of southern China, rain and snow is forecast during the upcoming peak.
Shanghai Railway Bureau, the rail operator of eastern China, estimates that the first wave of passengers returning to the city will last until Thursday.
More services have been added to deal with the numbers of passengers expected.
More than 6.65 million passengers traveled by train on Saturday, the last day of the holiday but many had decided to return earlier.
"I brought with me three fellows from hometown," said a man, surnamed Li, a Jiangsu Province native who works in Shanghai as a mover. Local moving companies are short of workers, Li said.
He arrived in Shanghai last Thursday by bus, after a short reunion with his family.
Shanghai's long-distance bus stations said many migrant workers make the city as a transit point to industrial zones close to Shanghai in the Yangtze Delta region such in as Jiangsu Province's Kunshan and Taicang.
There was tragedy on Saturday when two workers were killed and dozens of others injured in a bus crash on a Shanghai-Nanjing expressway. Traffic was severely affected after the accident.
The country's airports have been busy, with domestic airlines transporting 5.43 million passengers between January 22 and 28, an increase of 7.2 percent compared to last year, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said yesterday.
Flights to Hong Kong and Macau were the most popular, the regulator said, with flights to Hong Kong 80 percent full and those to Macau flights even busier at 95 percent capacity.
However, many passengers had been stranded in south China due to bad weather last week.
More than 100 flights, mostly domestic, were cancelled or delayed at south China airports over the weekend because of heavy fog and rain.
Earlier, about 5,000 passengers were stranded at Meilan International Airport in Hainan Province on Friday after 111 flights were canceled.
Some angry passengers tried to get on to the runway in protest, but were stopped by airport police. No flights were affected by the protest.
Carriers added more than 100 flights yesterday to transport the passengers as the fog cleared.
In Guangdong Province, eight departing and three arriving flights were cancelled on Friday night at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport because of poor visibility.
Shanghai Airport Authority said yesterday that the city's two airports handled more than 1.27 million passengers during the holiday, a 7.29 percent increase over the same period of last year.
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