Henan's Spring Festival travel rush ends with recovering transport figures

The Spring Festival travel rush, which began on Jan 7 this year, ended on Wednesday, with passenger traffic continuing to recover. During the 40-day travel rush, 35.433 million trips took place by rail, highway, water, and civil aviation, up 43.3% year on year in 2022, official data showed.

72.091 million vehicle trips were made on expressways, a year-on-year increase of 58.1% in 2022. 

The traffic volume of ordinary national and provincial trunk highways totaled 182.809 million vehicles, up 35.9% year on year in 2022.

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