{"id":518843,"date":"2022-09-02T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518843"},"modified":"2022-09-02T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:46:51","slug":"china-railway-travel-hits-8-year-low-in-busy-summer-amid-fresh-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-railway-travel-hits-8-year-low-in-busy-summer-amid-fresh-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"China railway travel hits 8-year low in busy summer amid fresh Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Railway travel in China hit an eight-year trough and a pandemic low in the usually busy summer season, according to official data, as fresh virus flare-ups curbed mobility and hit tourist confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Some 440 million passenger trips were taken on China&#8217;s railway network between July 1 and Aug. 31, its lowest since 2014, data from China Railway showed.<\/p>\n<p>It was down 4.8% from the 462 million trips seen during the same period in 2021 and 3.5% lower than the 456 million trips seen in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway travel in China hit an eight-year trough and a pandemic low in the usually busy summer season, according to official data, as fresh virus flare-ups curbed mobility and hit tourist confidence. Some 440 million passenger trips were taken on China&#8217;s railway network between July 1 and Aug. 31, its lowest since 2014, data from China Railway showed. It was down 4.8% from the 462 million trips seen during the same period in 2021 and 3.5% lower than the 456 million trips seen in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}