中国公路运输五一黄金周达到高峰

运输部门称公路乘客预计较去年增长10%，在周六国庆第一天达到7550万。运输部发言人称自周六起全国各地总共84万长途客车投入使用以缓解黄金周旅客洪流。

BEIJING - The number of highway passengers is expected to increase 10 percent from a year ago to 75.5 million on Saturday, China's National Day, the Ministry of transport said.

A total of 840,000 coaches are in service across the country to deal with the flood of tourists during the week-long holiday that started Saturday, said He Jianzhong, the ministry's spokesperson.

The ministry on Friday expected at least 530 million passenger trips will be made during the National Day holiday, which is also dubbed the "Golden Week".

In addition, about 1.04 million passengers are expected to travel by water Saturday, almost the same level with that of last year, according to He.