China Expects Surge in Travel Over Lunar New Year Holidays
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China expects a sharp jump in travel during the Lunar New Year holidays, with about 2.1 billion trips — by air, land and water — to be made over the period, twice as much as the same time last year.
The recent relaxation of Covid restrictions is likely to spur people to return home to visit families, as well as take vacations, Vice Transport Minister Xu Chengguang said at a briefing in Beijing on Friday. Still, numbers will be short of pre-Covid levels — at about 70% of the same period in 2019, he said.