This Day, That Year: Summer travel begins
(China Daily) Updated: 2016-07-14 10:43 |
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1994
Item from July 14, 1994, in China Daily: Students from the Beijing Tibetan Middle School bid goodbye to their teachers yesterday. A train is taking them back home after seven years of study in Beijing.
In spite of the intense summer heat, almost 200 million Chinese plan to travel home by train this month as the annual summer vacation begins ...
Between July and August, the Railway Ministry estimates that more than 199 million rail journeys will be made. That is 9.5 million more than the same period in 1993.
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