China's transportation sector has shown robust growth in passenger trips across multiple modes in 2025. According to the Ministry of Transport, the country's massive transport system, including rail, road, air, and waterways, handled 64.6 billion inter-regional passenger trips in 2024, marking a 5.4% year-on-year increase. Railroads accounted for 4.3 billion trips, highways for 59.3 billion, and civil airlines for 730 million trips. In the first five months of 2025, China's railway network set a record by transporting 1.86 billion passenger trips, a 7.3% increase year-on-year, with foreign passengers rising 29% to 7.665 million trips. The average daily train operations increased by 7.5% to 11,243 trains. In the first half of 2025, the railway system continued its growth trajectory, transporting a record 2.24 billion passengers, up 6.7% year-on-year. A single-day record of 23.119 million trips was set on May 1. The number of foreign passengers on trains surged 30.1% year-on-year to 9.148 million. These figures highlight ongoing structural reforms and improvements in passenger transport capacity and service quality within China's railway sector.