405 MILLION passengers

Railways in the summer peak travel period transported 405 million passengers, up 11 percent year-on-year, people.com.cn quoted the China Railway Corporation as saying in a report on Sunday. The travel peak ran from July 1 to Saturday. The high-speed railway transported 94.88 million people, up 60 percent year-on-year.

(China Daily USA 09/02/2013 page3)