More than 630 million Chinese will be 'on the way' during the National Day Holiday

According to the Ministry of Transportation, during the coming National Day Holiday, there will be a significant increase in the volume of road and waterway passenger transportation. It estimates that road passenger volume in the golden week will exceed 630 million and the average daily volume will reach 90 million, up 5 percent year on year. Waterway passenger volume will reach 14 million, up 2 percent from 2013.

At a regular news conference of the ministry, Li Yang, deputy director of the Policy Research Office of MOT, said that the golden week may be a peak time for passenger transport, when people go traveling, visiting relatives, and enjoying leisure time. Passenger cars with less than seven seats will still enjoy toll-free expressways from October 1 to 7.

During the golden week, more people will go self-drive tours, which will cause a sharp rise in traffic pressure on the intercity highways, roads around hot spots, and put pressures on passenger transportation between the continent and islands and across channels. Most people will choose short distance passenger transport to enjoy urban and rural tourism, family visits, and etc. And the road transportation will effectively ease passenger flows from air transport and rail transportation. He predicted that the traffic peak will occur at the beginning and the end of the National Day Holiday.