Full coverage: 2017 Spring Festival

Nearly 9-point-2 million trips are scheduled to be made by train, including 520-thousand departing from Beijing. The ministry expects an even higher number of trips in the second week of the holiday. To cope, authorities have dispatched over 8-hundred additional trains, and plan to add 246-thousand seats every day to help passengers reunite with their families. At the same time, most highways nationwide are seeing heavy traffic, and that's expected to keep climbing this week.