Guangzhou Expects Nearly 60 Million Passenger Trips During Mid-Autumn and National Day Holidays

Key points

• The Guangzhou Municipal Transport Bureau estimated on 21 September that about 17.56 million passenger trips will leave or arrive in Guangzhou during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and about 41.92 million during the National Day holiday.
• Holiday passenger flows in Guangzhou will feature a long holiday span, concentrated pre-holiday departures and converging return flows.
• Railway hubs such as Guangzhou South and Baiyun stations will schedule more than 620 originating trains per day on average, using 12306 big data and expanding capacity through coupled EMUs, added carriages and extra trains.
• Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is expected to handle about 1,700 aircraft movements per day, with adequate road and waterway capacity.
• Guangzhou will implement tiered subway extensions, bus backstops and taxi dispatch to ensure night-time returns from hubs.
• The 2026 Guangzhou International Shopping Festival starts on 23 September, linking more than 100 commercial complexes and 5,000 merchants across all 11 districts with a consumption map and over 2,000 themed promotions.