2025-10-02
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This is the Beijing Hour.
Examining the events that impact and shape China and the rest of the world.
This is the Beijing Hour.
One hour of news and information brought to you every weekday.
Now here's your host.
Shane Bigum with you on this Thursday, October 2nd, 2025.
You're listening to a special holiday edition of the Beijing Hour coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
On today's program,
China's railway network set a new single-day record for passengers to start the National Day Holiday Golden Week.
Organizers of an international aid flow tiller for Gazap say Israeli forces have stopped dozens of boats carrying activists and aid.
The White House says mass layoffs of federal workers will begin in two days as the government enters a shutdown and informal European Union summit.
This discussed further high-tech support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.
In the second half of the program,
we take to meet two African entrepreneurs in EWOPE who've witnessed the city's role in connecting markets and people between China and Africa.
Now the day's top stories.
China's national railway recorded over 23.1 million trips on the first day of the country's eight day national day holiday,
up nearly 8% from a year earlier and setting a single day record.
Authorities expect more than 19 million trips on the railway network on Thursday.
The Yungsea River Delta railway forecast 4 million passengers,