China's transportation network is bracing for a nationwide surge in return traffic on Tuesday, day seven of this year's eight-day National Day holiday.
The country's railway network is expected to handle more than 19 million passenger trips, according to official estimates. More than 1,880 additional trains have been deployed to accommodate the travel rush across the nation.
Beijing Railway Station and Beijing Chaoyang Railway Station are expected to handle 170,000 traveler trips on the day, more than twice as many as usual.
Meanwhile, peak hours for nationwide road traffic are expected to last from 10:00 to 16:00. In Nanping City of east China's Fujian Province, coach bus stations have arranged special routes to send passengers directly to railway stations.
"We have deployed 20 additional buses and another eight emergency vehicles at terminals of the routes connecting the high-speed rail station to ensure rapid response and timely evacuation," said Bai Yanfang, director of a coach bus station in Nanping.
Forecasts show that than 1.1 million passenger trips are expected at ferry terminals nationwide, a year-on-year increase of nearly 22 percent.
Meanwhile, the country's airlines will handle about 2.4 million air passenger trips on the day, growing 3.6 percent from the same period of the past year.
Return trips surge as National Day holiday nears end
Return trips surge as National Day holiday nears end
Return trips surge as National Day holiday nears end
More than 1,000 coal mines in China have adopted intelligent systems, as their application expands from pilot projects to large-scale deployment, the China National Coal Association said recently.
Statistics show that by the end of 2025, a total of 1,066 coal mines nationwide have introduced smart systems, with such technologies now supporting more than 65 percent of the country's coal production capacity. The number of autonomous mining trucks in operation surpassed 4,000 units, roughly doubling on an annual basis.
The rapid adoption of smart mining is driven by robust domestic capabilities in intelligent equipment and technology. In Beijing, a newly deployed underground Internet of Things (IoT) precision positioning and management system links workers, positioning cards and operating zones, while also enabling health monitoring. Its core technologies and components are fully domestically developed and have been applied in coal mines and coal preparation plants. "This underground positioning system we've developed has a positioning deviation of less than 20 centimeters when a person or device is stationary. Even when a person or device is moving at high speeds, the margin of error remains minimal. A single device can cover a radius of 800 meters," said Wu Fengdong, general manager of China Coal Beijing Coal Mining Machinery Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Coal Group Corporation.
Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021–2025), cumulative investment in smart mining has exceeded 107.1 billion yuan (about 15.6 billion U.S. dollars), with intelligent technologies now widely applied, accelerating the shift from traditional mining to modern, technology-driven extraction.
Over 60 pct of China's coal production capacity uses smart technology by end of 2025
