Over 220 million cross-regional passenger trips nationwide were estimated on Saturday, the 6th day of China's 2026 Spring Festival travel rush, 4.4 percent more than the day before, according to the Ministry of Transport.

On Saturday, railways nationwide were forecast to handle 13.8 million passenger trips, marking the sixth consecutive day that daily passenger trips topped 10 million.

Traffic volume on expressways has been on the rise, with an estimated over 40 million vehicles. Road travel is projected to facilitate 203.66 million passenger trips -- a day-on-day increase of 4.3 percent.

The civil aviation passenger volume was estimated to total 2.4 million, and the waterway passenger to rise 12.8 percent to 740,000.

According to China State Railway Group, a total of 140 million train tickets for the festival travel period had been sold via the nation's train ticket booking platform 12306 as of 08:00 on Saturday.

The Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year, falls on February 17 this year, and the official holiday lasts nine days. The annual travel surge, known as chunyun and often described as the world's largest human migration, is expected to generate a record 9.5 billion inter-regional passenger trips during the 40-day period running from February 2 to March 13 this year.