Spring Festival rail travel up to 192 mln trips

About 192 million rail trips will be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel period that started on Jan. 11 and ends Thursday, up 10.6 percent year-on-year, a spokesman for the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said.

As of 6 p.m Wednesday, 187 million railway tickets had been sold. And the busiest day was Feb. 14, when the railways carried 5.929 million passengers, said Wang Yongping, the spokesman.

At a press conference on Jan. 10, Wang had estimated that 188 million people would take trains during the 40-day period, an increase of 8 percent over the same period of 2008.

(2009-02-19 source:china.org.cn)