More than 90 percent of holiday travelers across China during the National Day holiday are expected to travel by road, with a growing number choosing recreational vehicles. A family of three rented an RV in Hangzhou for a long-distance trip to the northwest. Rental agency manager Huang Lichao said the average rental period has risen to seven days, and younger customers in their thirties have increased. At an RV showroom in Changzhou, one buyer purchased a vehicle for 638,000 yuan. According to the RV Branch of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, sales of self-propelled RVs exceeded 20,000 for the first time in 2025, and in the first half of 2026 cumulative registrations topped 12,000, up 32.6 percent year on year, with 18.4 percent electric.
