With a record-high number of trips made during the past eight days, the National Day holiday, has seen big changes in the way people travel.
Usually, the National Day holiday runs from Oct 1 to 7 and is named as "Golden Week". This year, the holiday was prolonged(延长) to eight days, as the Mid-Autumn Festival fell on Oct 4. The longer holiday enabled more people to take trips.
Statistics showed that 705 million trips were made during the eight-day National Day holiday this year, 663 million of them in the first seven days, up 12 percent from the seven-day holiday last year. Five years ago, 428 million trips were taken during the seven-day holiday.
But the increasing number of trips is not the only change in the past several years. Rail travel, particularly on high-speed trains, has enabled more people to travel during the holiday. Estimates showed that about 40 percent of trips during the holiday were made by train.
At the same time, the free-of-charge policy on expressways during public holidays, which first went into effect during the 2012 National Day holiday, made it cheaper and more convenient for people taking road trips. This encouraged more people to travel by car.
In addition, tourists in China also used shared bikes more frequently during the holiday, which added convenience in urban areas and helped the environment.
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