The number of people returning home for Tet in 2024 is unprecedented.

On January 26, China began its busiest annual Spring Festival travel period. According to China Central Television (CCTV), this year's Spring Festival will see 9 billion people return home to celebrate the Lunar New Year. This is a record number.

Of the 9 billion people returning home to reunite with their families, about 80% traveled by personal vehicles. This is also an unprecedented high rate. The rest traveled by rail, air and water.

Passengers at the Shenzhen railway station in Guangdong province, China on January 7, 2023. (Photo: THX/TTXVN)

A total of 480 million trips will be made nationwide during the 40-day period surrounding the Lunar New Year holiday, up 38% from 2023 and 17% from 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 26 alone, the first day of the Spring Festival, about 11 million train trips were made.

On the same day, the Civil Aviation Administration of China predicted that the number of passengers during this year's Chunyun travel period will increase to 80 million, 9.8% higher than in 2019. The two main airports in Beijing alone could record a record 76,000 takeoffs and landings during this period, an increase of about 20% over the same period last year.

China's civil aviation authorities have arranged more than 2,500 additional international flights to Asian destinations, including Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea.

Tra Khanh (Source: Tin Tuc Newspaper)

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