More than 653 million inter-regional trips were recorded during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival, statistics from China's Ministry of Transport showed. Compared to last year, this is an increase of 2.5 %, confirming the increasing mobility of the population and tourist interest in the traditional holiday.

Most people travelled po silnici, totalling over 597 million. Železnice carried 48 million passengers, letecká doprava served 5.63 million and vodní doprava recorded 2.73 million shipments.

CMG