China sees over 40 million passenger trips on first day of 2024 New Year holiday

China handled around 41.77 million passenger trips on Saturday, the first day of the 2024 New Year holiday, up 73.3 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Transport .

China’s national railway system carried an estimated 15.8 million passengers on Saturday. Around 23.49 million people traveled by road, 1.88 million by plane and another 600,000 by boat. There were no traffic accidents with a single death toll of over five on Saturday, said the ministry.