China Pledges Safety for Millions of Lunar New Year Travelers

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MANILA, Philippines - China pledged efforts to ensure the safety of roads, railways and airlines as hundreds of millions of people prepared for what authorities estimated will be a record volume of travel for this year's Lunar New Year holiday. About 80 million people will travel each day on average in the two weeks before the Lunar New Year on Jan. 23, He Jianzhong, Party Group Member of the Ministry of Transport, said at a briefing in Beijing yesterday. The nation's highways will carry most of that traffic, averaging more than 71 million travelers a day, according to government estimates. "The priority is to ensure safety before conducting measures to deal with the flow of …