China Rail Expects 22.1 Million Passengers as Holiday Return Peak Begins

The scale of the return peak is the real story here: adding over two thousand trains is an operational surge, not routine scheduling, and it signals how concentrated China's holiday travel demand remains. For anyone tracking domestic consumption, mobility data like this is a useful high-frequency proxy for how freely people are moving and spending. Whether this intensity carries into the post-holiday period, or fades once the return wave clears, is the open question worth watching.