Spring Festival holiday sees surge in entry, exit trips

BEIJING -- Passengers made 2.88 million trips through China's entry and exit frontier inspection stations during the week-long Spring Festival holiday that started on Jan 21.

It registered a stunning year-on-year increase of 120.5 percent, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said Saturday.

Inbound trips exceeded 1.43 million, rising by 123.3 percent compared with the figure for 2022, while outbound trips jumped by 117.8 percent to over 1.44 million, according to the NIA.