3.75m trips recorded during Sanmenxia’s Spring Festival travel rush

Sanmenxia’s south railway station witnesses thousands of people during the Spring Festival travel rush. [Photo by Wang Jian'an/news.cn]

The Spring Festival travel rush ended on March 12, with Sanmenxia, Henan province facilitating a total of 3.75 million trips, official data showed.

During the 40-day peak travel season, commonly regarded as the largest human migration on earth, 3.25 million trips were made by road and 507,000 by railway in Sanmenxia.

A daily average of 82,000 people traveled by road this year, a slight decline compared to last year's 90,000.

A total of 19 temporary trains, eight of them being bullet trains, were added to meet the high demand.

A single-day high of 6,000 people was recorded on Feb 21 and 22 when most people returned to work from their hometown.

Railways and roads operated in a smooth and orderly manner despite the huge amounts of passengers.

A well-kept waiting room awaits travellers in Sanmenxia's south railway station. [Photo by Wang Jian'an/news.cn]