On April 22, the Guangzhou Statistics Bureau released the transportation industry data for the first quarter of 2024. In the first quarter, a series of holidays such as New Year's Day, the Spring Festival, and winter vacation boosted the passenger flow in the city, leading to a rapid growth. During this period, Guangzhou served a total of 80.8398 million passengers, which is an increase of 21.9 percent over the same period last year. In terms of travel, air, railway, and waterway passenger traffic all showed a rapid growth trend, with an increase of 37.1 percent, 25.1 percent, and 14.4 percent respectively.(Photo: Zhong Zhihui)Among them, the aviation industry performed particularly well, transporting more than eight million passengers per month and serving 26.219 million passengers in total, an increase of 12.1 percent over the same period in 2019. In the first quarter of 2024, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport handled 19.5991 million passenger throughput, an increase of 43.1 pe
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