Ministry of Transport: It is expected that the total inter-regional passenger flow in the Spring Festival of 2025 will reach 9 billion people.

On January 14th, the Ministry of Transport announced that the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush will start today (the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month) and end on February 22nd (the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month). It is estimated that the total number of inter-regional travelers in the whole society will reach 9 billion, an increase of about 7% compared to the Spring Festival travel rush in 2024. According to data from the 2025 Comprehensive Transportation Spring Festival Work Team, it is estimated that on January 14, 2025 (the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush, the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month), the total number of inter-regional travelers in the whole society will be 172.39 million, including 10.3 million railway passengers, 159.52 million road travelers (13.17 million non-commercial small car travelers on expressways and ordinary national and provincial highways, 27.82 million commercial road passenger travelers), 530,000 waterway passengers, and 2.04 million air passengers. This article was selected from the official WeChat account of the Ministry of Transport and edited by GMTEight.