Southern China’s Great Bay Area on Sunday launched the first nighttime high-speed train service to ease the mounting pressure of the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush for 2026, which officially started a week ago. At 22:12 on Sunday, the first overnight train departed from the bustling Guangzhou South Railway Station in Guangdong Province, transporting a…
The nine cities of Guangdong Province in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) saw their foreign trade surpass 9 trillion yuan (about 1.29 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, hitting a record high. The nine GBA mainland cities recorded imports and exports totaling 9.15 trillion yuan (about 1.31 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, a year-on-year…
China on Friday launched its first cross-province and cross-sea tourist train, linking the southwest Qinghai-Xizang Plateau with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Hainan ahead of the 2026 Spring Festival travel season. During the 14-day journey, the train will take tourists on a route combining rail, road, and sea, allowing them to explore iconic…
China’s Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is experiencing a boom in its low-altitude economy as companies continue to expand the range of applications for drones. One very popular use of drones in recent years is drone-performed light shows. At a drone show company in Shenzhen City, south China’s Guangdong Province, formation designers are working…
A growing number of international enterprises have launched operations at the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, positioning it as a global technology hub just one month after its official launch. The park was set up on December 22, 2025 and established under the vision of “one…
China recorded an average of 198 million daily inter-regional passenger trips during the three-day New Year holiday that ended on Saturday, marking a year-on-year increase of 19.62 percent, official data showed Sunday. The total number of passenger trips during the holiday reached 595 million, highlighting robust travel demand, according to the Ministry of Transport. Highway…
China’s New Year holiday box office has surpassed 680 million yuan as of 14:30 on Saturday, the final day of the three-day break, according to data from online ticketing platform Maoyan. In Beijing, Huaxia Film Center, China’s first high frame rate LED multiplex, has emerged as a top destination for film enthusiasts. Featuring high dynamic…
China’s transportation network is bracing for a nationwide surge in return traffic on Saturday, the last day of the New Year holiday. The total number of cross-regional passenger trips across the country on Friday was expected to exceed 180 million, representing a year-on-year growth of 13.4 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Transport….
As the New Year holiday is drawing near, more and more people in China are choosing to celebrate the arrival of 2026 with travel. According to umetrip, a Chinese travel-related mobile service provider, the flight booking reservations from major cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai to popular destinations including southern cities like Sanya, Haikou,…
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, a 24-kilometer cross-sea passage in south China, has greatly enhanced connectivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and provided a model for global development ambitions. The link, featuring two bridges, two artificial islands, and an underwater tunnel, drastically reduces the time it takes to travel between Zhongshan and the technology…