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China railway passenger trips hit record high in first eight months

China handled a record 3.32 billion railway passenger trips in the first eight months of 2026, up 3.9 percent year on year, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway).

During the period, the railway network operated an average of 11,508 passenger trains daily, up 5 percent from a year earlier.

Responding to passenger growth driven by the country’s transit visa-free policy, the railway network recorded over 16.68 million foreign passenger trips in the first eight months, up 33.3 percent year on year.

Cross-border rail travel also continued to grow. The China-Laos Railway carried 245,000 cross-border trips, up 39.1 percent, while the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway handled over 23.4 million cross-border trips, up 10.7 percent, China Railway said.

Analysts attributed the record to the expansion of China’s high-speed rail network, stronger operational capacity, a rebound in tourism consumption and easier cross-border travel.

China has expanded its 240-hour visa-free transit program to 57 countries, with Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam the latest added. The policy has helped fuel a surge in cross-border travel, with Chinese border authorities handling 499 million inbound and outbound trips in the first eight months, up 8.7 percent year on year.

China Railway has also worked with local cultural and tourism departments to promote tourism, operating 2,501 tourist trains nationwide during the period.

Aboard the Y839 tourist train from Xining to Lhasa, Chris, a 56-year-old British tourist, was traveling to China with his wife and daughter for the first time, with Lhasa as the first stop. Long fascinated by China, he chose the train to take in the plateau scenery. “This train is carrying more than 30 foreign passengers from seven countries, including Thailand, Britain and Japan,” said Gai Mingjing, conductor of the Y839 train.

China Railway said it will prepare for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday travel rush, improve station and onboard services, and run distinctive tourist trains to give passengers a better travel experience.

imperialism

genocidal

I don’t think you know what these words mean.

Doesn’t really change the fact that you are commenting on a post where it is explicitly about a “victims of communism” memorial and it turns out the best they could do was a bunch of Nazis which sort of flies in the face of your whitewashing attempt in your comment don’t you think?

Also victims of communism is a ridiculous framing but that’s more of a tangent.

The post is quite literally about a victims of communism memorial that had to be taken down because it was mostly Nazis. Do you read posts before you comment?

The spectre of Margaret Thatcher continues to haunt the global britoids

I find people are generally more polite when you don’t call them hypocritical blind tribalists and nationalists for not conforming to what you think they should believe based on what you’ve simply osmosised from the hegemonic liberal view on the matter and instead stick to polite questions and requests for clarification until you’re more informed.

I don’t believe those protesters were violent

Most weren’t violent hence the relatively peaceful evacuation of the square itself. That being said there are plenty of images of soldiers in dire straights at the hands of the more violent elements. Here is an English language display of some of the images very NSFW CW:Dead bodies, Violence, Blood, Weapons.

Article specifically about future plans for HK

Better social welfare with new homes, childcare and elderly aid on cards

Key indicators and initiatives — including building nearly 200,000 public housing units over the coming five years, phasing out substandard subdivided units and shortening waiting times for public rental housing — were unveiled by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government in the city’s inaugural five-year plan and the latest Policy Address.

The government-backed School-based After School Care Service Scheme will become a regular program from the 2027-28 school year, with no quota cap, Lee said. New escort services for pre-primary children will also be introduced.

Five additional subsidized daycare facilities, five additional neighborhood elderly centers and three new care homes are planned. The city will add 2,000 community elderly care service vouchers in the 2027-28 financial year, bringing the total to 18,000. Lee also announced 1,000 additional residential care service vouchers, bringing the total to 8,000.

Online rumors targeted in crackdown on cybercrime

Online rumors have been a major target of the crackdown. Police have solved more than 11,000 cases involving fabricated information, manipulated content and AI-generated rumors related to accidents and disasters, the economy and people’s livelihoods, the ministry said.

China’s property market sees major changes in supply and demand: official

China’s property market has seen major changes in supply and demand and entered a new phase increasingly centered on existing housing stock, an official said Friday.

The share of second-hand home transactions in total housing transactions rose from 27 percent in 2020 to 46 percent in 2025, and 52 percent in the first eight months of this year, said Zhang Xuetao, an official with the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, at a press conference.

A share exceeding 50 percent marks the property market’s transition into the new phase, according to Zhang.

To adapt to these changes, China is accelerating efforts to foster a new development model for the real estate sector, Zhang said. The country will press ahead with reforms to three key systems governing property development, financing and sales to promote the sector’s sound development.

In property development, each real estate project will operate through a dedicated project company that is an independent legal entity, while corporate headquarters will be barred from improperly diverting project funds, Zhang said.

In property financing, each project will have one lead bank or banking consortium to manage project funds and meet reasonable financing needs, with the bank and project company sharing benefits and risks, Zhang said.

In commercial housing sales, China will promote sales of completed homes to allow buyers to “get what they see” and reduce delivery risks, Zhang said, adding that the share of completed homes in total new-home sales by floor area has risen year by year in recent years.

Meanwhile, China will strengthen housing support for low-income urban families, new urban residents and young people, providing rental housing or homes for purchase as appropriate to meet basic housing needs, Zhang said.

Efforts to foster a new real estate development model have gathered pace this year. In August, authorities deepened reforms to the housing provident fund system and refined regulations on commercial housing sales and property financing as part of broader efforts to chart a new path for real estate development.

Data released earlier this week showed narrower year-on-year declines in home prices across major Chinese cities in August, pointing to further signs of stabilization as China continues city-specific policy adjustments, inventory reduction and urban renewal.

Meanwhile, overall property transaction volumes have improved, with second-hand home transactions by floor area rising 10.6 percent year on year in the first eight months, while the total floor area of unsold new commercial housing fell 1.1 percent year on year at the end of August, the sixth straight monthly decline.

I’ve seen a lot of pictures from the day both before and after the military intervention. I haven’t seen evidence characterising it as anything other than student-led protests, which of course were joined by other civilians. Do you have any?

Cowbee has already provided a wealth of information I would recommend starting with the article by Sun Feiyang and Roderic Day and delving into the sources provided.

BTW I find it disheartening when other leftists don’t seem to understand the concept of critical support, and act like they have to justify anything and everything a government does simply because they otherwise support it. This only drives away others who are open to e.g. opposition of NATO, but not willing to deny human rights abuses in support of that goal. Just seems hypocritical and like you don’t actually stand for any values instead of another flavor of tribalism and nationalism

This is a completely nonsensical and ridiculous reply to me simply pointing out that the protest was more complex than simply a student protest and that the violence was not so one sided and cartoonish but rather the result of clashes between rioters with such peaceful calls as

Don’t let any soldiers escape! Kill them all!

and the peaceful thoughts of CIA operative and student leader Chai Ling:

The students keep asking, “What should we do next? What can we accomplish?” I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed

Who when asked:

Are you going to stay in the Square yourself?

Replied:

No, I won’t. Because my situation is different. My name is on the government’s hit list. I’m not going to let myself be destroyed by this government. I want to live

and the soldiers acting in place of riot police.

I am not at all against criticism of the handling of the events surrounding Tiananmen square in 1989 however that is not what you were doing rather you were merely obscuring the reality to allow yourself to apply easy blanket condemnation in place of real analysis and thought.

student protests

Very reductionist.

run over by tanks

Not really what happened it was more akin to rioters clashing with the military (standing in as riot police).

Definitely a contributing factor but I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s the core or main driver given the long history of orientalism etc.

If this was how the average anti-China poster was on Lemmy and Reddit it would be a marked improvement compared to the blatant aggressive racism, chauvinism etc. of current.

Sorry I’m going to take a swing here and say that you’re a white EuroAmerican just completely uninformed to the reality of the Chinese people, Chinese law and Chinese sentiments. You are completely detached from the reality of China. And honestly even from this short comment it doesn’t appear you have a strong grasp of Marxist theory either.

I think people talking about struggle sessions are usually referring to the incarnation during the cultural revolution of mass public criticism events held by red guards.

Hating two things is not the same as putting them at the same level

True at the most basic level in the same vein of saying 2 things can be bad. Yes it is possible for 2 things to be bad but no one who ever says this ever means it in that way it is nothing but thought terminating cliche if not expanded upon. The same is true here leaving out the other major ideological power of the time leads the framing to the implication that it sits above the other 2 evils (who are then equatable in comparison).

and I mean to do no such thing

Even if you didn’t mean to the way you chose to frame your comment clearly implies some level of equation between the soviet nondescript horrific crimes and the Nazis in comparison the the capitalist powers who are absent from your comment.

I don’t think you would claim that hating a lesser evil in addition to a grater evil is an example of trivialisation.

Again on a base level this is true but in the framing of your comment there is clearly a level of equation (even if unintentional).

It’s really not so crazy to hate both Nazis and Soviets

Putting the Soviets and Nazis on the same level is plainly ridiculous to the point that in many cases it constitutes a form of holocaust denial(or trivialisation).

Oh here it is! That’s blatantly anticommunist of you.

The Soviets were asked to intervene by the legitimate government of the time. The only people who call it an invasion are those who were backing the Mujahedeen (and later Isis and AlQaeda).

Calling racism and dehumanisation “disagreement” and “free thinking” is a pretty fucked up framing don’t you think?