Wuxi sets multiple records during National Day holiday

Passengers at Yixing high-speed railway station during the National Day holiday. [Photo provided to wuxi.gov.cn]

During the seven-day National Day holiday, Wuxi in East China's Jiangsu province set multiple new records for passenger flow and express parcels.

From Sept 30 to Oct 7, Yixing high-speed railway station dispatched and received over 20,000 passengers per day on average, a record high in the city. On Oct 3 alone, the number of passengers arriving in and leaving the city exceeded 25,000, also setting the city's record.

Jiangyin high-speed railway station, one of the four new stations along the Shanghai-Nanjing Yangtze River High-Speed Railway, is expected to deliver about 100,000 passengers during the holiday, a 38.3 percent year-on-year increase from the previous year.

During the holiday, the postal enterprises in Wuxi received more than 18 million parcels and delivered 22 million parcels, staggering year-on-year increases of 50 percent and 47 percent, respectively.

Over 100,000 readers visited the Xinhua Bookstore in Wuxi during the seven-day holiday, with the daily passenger flow in the first three days totaling 200,000. The bookstore's sales volume during the holiday amounted to 89,000 yuan ($13,000) per day, a fourfold increase from the days before the holiday.