The 16-day railway Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday transport, running from September 23 to October 8, concluded, with China Railway carrying a cumulative 302 million passenger trips nationwide. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway and the China-Laos Railway carried 1.66 million and 14,000 cross-border passenger trips respectively. Railway departments operated special tourist trains for tourism and sightseeing, ecological health and wellness, and red education study tours, as well as tourist line trains such as the "Qilu No. 1 · Cultural Relics Study Train" and "China's Snow Capital · My Altay".
During the National Day holiday, Guangzhou South Station's single-day passenger arrivals and departures reached 1.049 million passenger trips, becoming the country's first railway station whose single-day arrivals and departures exceeded one million passenger trips. As of 0:00 on the 8th, the station had handled 5.5943 million passenger trips in arrivals and departures, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, setting a record high for passenger flow during the National Day holiday; on peak days, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway carried 135,000 cross-border passenger trips, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%.
A study released by the European Commission points out that fragmented ERTMS trackside deployment in Europe is the root cause of high costs and rising complexity. National rules and legacy systems require suppliers to provide customized solutions, and may lead to supplier lock-in and restrict competition. Currently only about 10% of the trans-European rail network has completed ERTMS deployment, and full completion is expected to require investment of 75 billion to 85 billion euros. The study recommends deploying ERTMS without relying on Class B legacy systems, and strengthening project management, promoting modern engineering tools, unifying and simplifying engineering rules, and streamlining approval processes.
Railway Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday transport begins on September 23 and ends on October 8, lasting 16 days. Railways nationwide are expected to send 284 million passenger trips, with an average of about 13,000 passenger trains planned to operate per day. October 1 is the peak of passenger flow. Railway departments, in coordination with local culture and tourism departments, have launched tourist special trains and tourist line trains such as the "Starlight·Yanzhao" and "Panda Special Train." The "Railway Tourism" section of the 12306 APP allows one-click booking of related products.
Nanchang Railway Bureau's 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday transport runs from September 23 to October 8, a total of 16 days, and is expected to send 19.35 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 16%, including 10.255 million in Jiangxi and 9.095 million in Fujian. The peak passenger flow is expected to occur on October 1, with 1.91 million passengers sent that day, which is expected to set a new single-day historical high. Nanchang Railway Bureau plans to add 773 passenger trains, including 543 medium- and short-distance trains, focusing on covering directions such as Nanchang round trips to Wuyuan, Pingxiang, Jingdezhen, and Ganzhou.