May Day holiday begins in China, travel demand back from COVID curbs

The five-day May Day holiday started in China on Saturday, with domestic travel demand fully recovering after Beijing withdrew its strict "zero-COVID" policy in January.About 120 million domestic trips are expected to be made by railway passengers in eight days through next Thursday, up 20 percent from the 2019 level, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted China State Railway Group Co. as saying.Around 9 million air journeys are projected to be made during the holiday period, with domestic passenger capacity exceeding the level in the same period of 2019, according to China Central Televisi…READ FULL ARTICLE