China's railway system handles 105 million passenger trips during National Day holiday

The national railway system has handled 105 million passenger trips since the National Day holiday railway travel boom started on Sept. 29, according to China State Railway Group Co., Ltd (China Railway), the country's railway operator.

The national railway handled over 17 million passenger trips per day from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, and the number also reached over 21.44 million on Oct. 1, setting a new single-day record.

From Sunday to Tuesday, the national railway will witness a peak in return trips, with relatively concentrated passenger flows in Beijing to Shanghai, Chengdu to Xi'an, Guangzhou to Nanning, Dalian to Shenyang, Wuhan to Changsha, and other sections.

China Railway Beijing Bureau planned to add 102 pairs of passenger trains on Sunday, mainly to cities including Shanghai, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Xi'an, and Shijiazhuang.

China Railway Zhengzhou Bureau planned to operate 1,358 passenger trains and added 126 temporary passenger trains on the same day, of which more than half are high-speed trains to major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.

The Wuhan bureau of China Railway is expected to send about one million passengers on Sunday, and has added 211 temporary trains along the routes linking places such as Hankou, Yichang and Shiyan in central China's Hubei Province.

The Xi'an bureau also deployed additional trains to Beijing, Shanghai, and major cities of surrounding provinces, and 80 percent of which were EMU trains.

The Guangzhou bureau planned to add 118 high-speed night trains from Sunday evening to Monday morning, and the Nanchang bureau also added 32 night trains along routes departing from Nanchang City and Fuzhou City.

According to the Ministry of Transport, the traffic volume on national highways continued to remain high at about 61 million vehicles on Sunday, and road networks around cities such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, Changsha and Suzhou are expected to see heavy traffic volume.

According to data from the flight travel app Umetrip, the national civil aviation sector has also begun to enter return trip peak, expecting to handle over 17,000 domestic flights and more than 2,600 flights on inbound and outbound routes on Sunday, and the number of civil aviation passengers nationwide is expected to exceed 2.3 million.

China's railway system handles 105 million passenger trips during National Day holiday

China's railway system handles 105 million passenger trips during National Day holiday

China's railway system handles 105 million passenger trips during National Day holiday

With China assuming the rotating presidency on Friday, the United Nations Security Council will focus its work in May on revitalizing the authority of the UN Charter and the role of the United Nations, while advancing the political settlement of the Middle East issue, and promoting the stability and development of African countries.

Briefing reporters on the Security Council's priorities for May, Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations and president of the Security Council for May, made the statement on Friday.

In recent years, the world has been witnessing growing turbulence in the international landscape, with conflicts increasing, divisions widening, and the multilateral system, along with international law, under considerable strain, he said, urging the international community to take urgent actions to uphold the authority of the UN Charter and strengthen the role of the United Nations to prevent the world from "relapsing into the jungle" and "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war".

In this context, Fu said, the Security Council will convene a high-level open debate in May under the theme of upholding the purposes and the principles of the UN Charter and strengthening the UN-centered international system.

Security Council to focus on UN's role, Middle East, Africa in May: Chinese envoy