It was the first day for the Middle Autumn Day and National Day holiday on September 30, 2012 as well as the first day of traffic free for the 7 seats and below station wagon. Thanks to the good weather, there were 85.6 million passengers past through China road transportation, up 13.3% compared with last year.

The spokesman of China Ministry of Transport- He Jianzhong said that the peak time for the high speed express way was from 5:00 a.m. According to the record of real time monitoring of traffic ministry network, it was about 20%-50% more than ordinary time. The good condition was that the cars kept speed lower than 80kms/h. But some sections of highway can’t avoid being influenced by traffic accidents and caused traffic jams. There were more than 80 traffic accidents reported to the ministry when the news conference was held. Those accidents took 80% of the blocking-up situation.

According to the detailed information, there were 24 highways of 16 provinces suffered from the traffic accidents, which caused the slow speed of traffic.

Concerning the water transportation, there would be about 1.1 million people there with good order.