China Transport Ministry: 303.46 Million Cross-Region Trips on Oct 6

The year-on-year decline is less a demand signal than a calendar artefact: the 2025 comparison fell on the seventh day of a longer combined holiday, so the two dates are not strictly comparable. What the release does show is a travel system operating at extraordinary scale with day-to-day volumes essentially flat, which matters for fuel demand, toll revenue and the transport operators exposed to holiday traffic. Whether the sequential flatness holds through the holiday's final days is the open question.