CCTV News: During the 2025 Qingming Festival holiday, many people chose to go out for a short and medium distance, which also made car rental popular.
At around 8 o'clock in the morning, Ms. Zhang, who came to Beijing from Wuhan to travel, came to the pickup location. During the Qingming Festival holiday, she plans to rent a car and drive a self-driving trip in Beijing with her friends.
Ms. Zhang said that she likes to take photos. Before coming, she did a lot of guides online and wanted to go to many places. They planned to go to the Old Summer Palace at the first stop.
A staff member of a car rental company's Beijing store said that during the Qingming Festival in 2025, some models were in short supply, and the order volume of SUVs accounted for about 20% of the total order volume.
Data shows that during the Qingming Festival in 2025, the number of cross-city travel bookings nationwide increased significantly, and long-term self-driving tour routes such as Sanya-Haikou, Dali-Lijiang, Chengdu-Lhasa, and short-distance intercity routes such as Hangzhou-Shanghai, Luoyang-Zhengzhou, and Guangzhou-Shenzhen have become popular routes. The number of cross-city car rental bookings in some cities such as Lhasa and Dunhuang has increased by more than 10 times year-on-year.
