May Day holiday to see record travel

China is expected to see record travel demand during the upcoming May Day holiday, with cross-regional trips, daily passenger flows and expressway traffic all forecast to reach new highs for the same period, transport authorities said recently.

About 1.52 billion cross-regional trips are expected during the five-day holiday from Friday to Tuesday, averaging 304 million trips per day, up 4 percent year-on-year, Gao Bo, deputy director of the transport services department of the Ministry of Transport, said at a news conference in Beijing.