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Train trips exceed 40 mln during Dragon Boat Festival

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2016-06-13 09:01Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping
A passenger prepares to board a train at the railway station in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, June 8, 2016. The number of passengers in Yinchuan railway station increased on Wednesday, one day before the 3-day holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)

A passenger prepares to board a train at the railway station in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, June 8, 2016. The number of passengers in Yinchuan railway station increased on Wednesday, one day before the 3-day holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)

More than 40 million train trips were made during the four-day Dragon Boat Festival travel rush, up 11.7 percent from the same period last year, the China Railway Corporation said on Sunday.

More than half the trips were made by bullet train.

Passenger numbers peaked on Thursday with 11.28 million trips made, up 15.1 percent from last year.

A total of 1,494 trains were added during the four-day period to meet demand.

Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It fell on June 9 this year.

  

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