China Railway: September 27 marks the peak of return passenger flow nationwide as the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday ends, with an estimated 16.86 million passenger trips expected.

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19:13 27/09/2026
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September 27 marks the peak of return passenger flow nationwide as the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday ends, with an estimated 16.86 million passenger trips expected.
China Railway issued a notice stating that on September 26, railways nationwide carried 14.374 million passengers, with transportation safe, stable, and orderly. On September 27, railways nationwide are seeing the peak of return passenger flow for the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, with an estimated 16.86 million passenger trips expected, and 1,398 additional passenger trains planned. As of 8:00 on September 27, Railway 12306 had cumulatively sold 155 million train tickets for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday transportation period (September 23 to October 8). Judging from presale conditions, the main popular departure cities are Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Chongqing, and Zhengzhou; the main popular arrival cities are Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, and Nanjing; passenger flow is relatively concentrated on popular routes such as Jinan, Shenyang, Datong, Taiyuan, Zhengzhou, and Hohhot to Beijing, Beijing to Shanghai, Changsha to Wuhan, and Nanning to Guangzhou. Judging from remaining ticket availability, from September 28 to 30, there are ample remaining tickets on routes such as Shanghai to Beijing and Hefei, Nanning and Changsha to Guangzhou, Jiangsu Lianyungang Port, Wenzhou, Beijing, and Hefei to Shanghai, Shenyang to Beijing, and Xi'an to Chengdu; there are still remaining tickets on routes such as Nanchang, Huai'an, and Huangshan to Shanghai, Xi'an to Wuhan, Kunming to Guiyang, Chaoyang to Beijing, Beijing to Harbin, Shanghai to Huaibei, Ji'an to Shenzhen, and Kunming to Nanning. From October 1 to 2, there are ample remaining tickets on routes such as Shanghai round-trip to Wenzhou and Xuzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, and Handan to Beijing, Nanning and Changsha to Guangzhou, and Shanghai to Hefei; there are still remaining tickets on routes such as Shanghai round-trip to Huangshan, Wuhan, Guiyang, and Guilin to Guangzhou, Ganzhou, Ji'an, Hengyang, and Xiamen to Shenzhen, and Wenzhou to Nanjing. From October 3 to 5, there are ample remaining tickets on routes such as Shanghai round-trip to Nanjing and Beijing, Guangzhou round-trip to Zhanjiang, Guangzhou to Nanning and Changsha, Chengdu to Chongqing, and Dali to Kunming; there are still remaining tickets on routes such as Shanghai round-trip to Wenzhou, Changchun round-trip to Yanbian, Shanghai to Hefei, Nanning to Guangzhou, Kunming to Jinghong, Changsha to Zhang Jia Jie Tourism Group, Shenyang to Dalian, and Chengdu to Xi'an. From October 6 to 8, there are ample remaining tickets on routes such as Shanghai round-trip to Nanjing, Beijing round-trip to Shanghai, Guangzhou round-trip to Nanning, Chengdu to Chongqing, Kunming to Dali, Guangzhou to Shantou, and Shanghai to Xuzhou; there are still remaining tickets on routes such as Shanghai round-trip to Wenzhou, Shenzhen to Chaozhou and Shantou, Shanghai to Hefei, Zhang Jia Jie Tourism Group to Changsha, Dalian to Shenyang, Changchun to Yanbian, Harbin to Jiamusi, and Wuhan to Shiyan. This article was compiled and selected from the "China Railway" WeChat public account, GMTEight editor: Liu Jiayin.