Chinese travellers made an estimated 362.58 million cross-regional passenger trips on Monday, the final day of the Spring Festival holiday, according to official data.
The figure marked a 4.7 per cent decline compared with Sunday, but represented an 11.9 per cent increase compared with the last day of the holiday period in 2025.
China’s railway network handled approximately 18.5 million passenger journeys on Monday — up 1.2 per cent from the previous day and 8.6 per cent higher year on year.
Road travel accounted for the vast majority of journeys, with an estimated 339.83 million driver and passenger trips recorded nationwide. That represented a 5 per cent daily decrease but a 12 per cent rise compared with the same day last year.
Of those road trips, around 35.21 million were made using commercial passenger vehicles, while private vehicles accounted for 304.62 million journeys.
Water transport handled an estimated 1.6 million passenger trips, down 4.3 per cent from Sunday but up 31.2 per cent compared with a year earlier.
Meanwhile, China’s civil aviation sector transported approximately 2.65 million passengers on Monday — a marginal 0.2 per cent increase from the previous day and a 6.9 per cent rise year on year.
This year’s Spring Festival, marking the start of the Year of the Horse, fell on 17 February. The official holiday ran from 15 to 23 February, while the wider travel rush — known as “Chunyun” — will continue until 13 March.
Chunyun is widely regarded as the world’s largest annual human migration, as hundreds of millions of people travel across the country to reunite with family and celebrate the Lunar New Year.
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