Spring Festival consumption recovers in various industries (5)

Transportation industry

Passengers line up to board trains at Shenzhen North railway station in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 18, 2023. The railway station has witnessed peaks in the number of passengers in recent days and hit a single-day record of 275,000 passenger trips on Wednesday during the Spring Festival travel rush. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)

Nine million passenger trips were made by civil aviation during the 2023 Spring Festival holiday, an increase of 79.8 percent over the same period in 2022, according to China Civil Aviation Administration.

In the same period, 50.174 million passenger trips were made by railways nationwide, with an average daily number of 7.168 million, an increase of 57.0 percent year-on-year, according to National Railway Administration.