On 26th, 2024 Spring Festival travel rush kicked off. On the way home, Chinese’s warm expectation for reunion surged.
    This is the first normalized Spring Festival travel rush after the transition of epidemic prevention and control. In 40 days, it is estimated that 9 billion people will travel, which will hit a record high.
    This is a steaming "flowing epic", which reflects the changes and development of China society. On the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, Xinhua News Agency reporters approached Spring Festival travel rush with you and wrote down the warm memories of Spring Festival travel rush in 2024.
   From the south to the north, the road is smooth: "Mobile China" is full of vitality
    On 26th, a series of "bullets" were running on the Wan Li railway line.
   In the early morning of January 26, 2024, the EMU train stopped at the storage line of Guangzhou EMU (photo of drone).Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua photo
    At 5: 34 in the morning, the G6701 train left the platform 12 of Beijing West Railway Station, becoming the first high-speed train in Beijing, Spring Festival travel rush in 2024.
    At 7: 58 in the morning, the G8979 train slowly started at Nanjing South Railway Station, carrying more than 500 passengers along the Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed railway along the Yangtze River to Taicang, Suzhou.
    At 15: 38 in the afternoon, the G2024 train left Lanzhou West Railway Station and flew away to Zhengzhou.
    "I took the G2024 train home in 2024. I hope this year will be like taking a high-speed train, moving at a high speed and growing flowers all the way." On the wishing wall with the theme of the Year of the Loong in the carriage, Tamia Liu, a Zhengzhou tourist who works in Lanzhou, wrote down his New Year’s wishes.
    Spring Festival travel rush in 2024 will last for 40 days from January 26th to March 5th. The analysis shows that with the full recovery of normal economic and social operation, the people’s strong willingness to travel, and the extension of the Spring Festival holiday, the travel demand in Spring Festival travel rush will be further released this year.
   On January 26, 2024, passengers lined up at Shenzhen North Railway Station to check in.Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Xushe
    Long Xing is home to Yan and Yan Xin. On the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, the scene of Spring Festival travel rush, full of excitement and fireworks, was fixed on the land of China.
    In the North China Plain, in the terminal building of the Capital Airport, flaming lanterns, festive New Year’s Eve flowers and the theme landscape of "Spring Festival Garden Party" create a warm festive atmosphere; In the hinterland of the Central Plains, Longmen Station in Luoyang is decorated with a new look, and calligraphy lovers send Spring Festival couplets to North and South tourists with a splash of ink. In southwest China, the train C6006 is speeding along the Chengdu-Zhenjiang section of Sichuan-Qingdao Railway, and the "Gesanghua" team expresses their travel wishes in Chinese and Tibetan …
    "During this year’s Spring Festival travel rush, the passenger traffic of railways, highways, water transport and civil aviation will reach 1.8 billion, and the number of self-driving passengers will be about 7.2 billion." Li Yang, vice minister of the Ministry of Transport, said.
   On January 26, 2024, the vehicle was waiting to board the ship at Haikou Xinhai Port.Xinhua News Agency reporter Guo Chengshe
    The continuous growth of passenger flow and the orderly way in the busy time show the vitality and vigor of mobile China.
    Looking back more than half a century ago, in 1954, the word "Spring Festival travel rush" first appeared in the media. At that time, many people took the green leather train and slowly "bounced" home. Now, 70 years later, people take more advanced and diverse means of transportation, and the "time distance" of home is getting closer and closer.
    In Spring Festival travel rush this year, the transportation department will give full play to the advantages of comprehensive transportation, strengthen the capacity reserve and overall scheduling of various modes of transportation, and strive to improve the capacity and level of comprehensive transportation services. Looking at the railway, on the 159,000-kilometer railway, there are an average of 12,700 passenger trains every day to provide protection; Looking at civil aviation, there are thousands of routes, with an average of 16,500 flights in the air every day.
   On January 26, 2024, passengers passed the automatic ticket checking machine at Changzhou North Station in Jiangsu.Xinhua News Agency (photo by Chen Yong)
    On the highway side, Li Yang said that the transportation department will take various measures to improve the self-driving travel service, including strengthening the dredging of congested sections, improving the traffic capacity of toll stations, optimizing the rescue of obstacles, etc. At the same time, through research and judgment, it will timely understand and analyze the distribution characteristics of passenger flow in Spring Festival travel rush, and guide all localities and departments to respond.
   Service upgrade, building a safe foundation: warmth on the way to travel
    On the 26th, Guangzhou South Railway Station was bustling and crowded.
    Zhang Bin, 35, put his ID card on the machine in front of the automatic ticket checking machine, then looked at the camera, and the gate was opened. Zhang Bin quickly passed the ticket checking machine and went to the waiting hall to wait for the train to his hometown.
    "Buying tickets online and swiping the card into the station, now the time and energy spent by car are much less than before, and it is more and more convenient to go home." Zhang Bin said.
    Thousands of miles away, Mr. Wei, the owner of a new energy vehicle, placed an order through a mobile phone applet in Jiaxing service area of Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway. Soon, the service area staff will drive the mobile charging robot near the vehicle to provide charging service. "In the past, we were’ people looking for charging piles’, but now it has become’ charging piles looking for people’, which is too convenient." Mr. Wei said.
    The change of science and technology is the most powerful example of the development of the times; The upgrade of service is the most vivid footnote of "Mobile China".
    In the terminal building of Beijing Capital Airport, with the approach of the Spring Festival, the number of special passengers such as the elderly and children increased significantly.
    "For special travel needs, Air China provides online reservations for 11 special travel services, such as baby cradles and unaccompanied children’s travel. It also provides narrow wheelchairs on the whole fleet to facilitate more groups to travel." Zhang Honglin, deputy general manager of Air China’s product service department, said that in this Spring Festival travel rush, Air China launched the first flight guidance, wheelchair borrowing, winter clothes storage, love rest area, maternal and child room and other service measures to make passengers travel more warmly.
    In the waiting hall of Baoji Station in Shaanxi Province, the publicity campaign on the theme of "Exploring the Source of China and Inheriting Chinese Culture" was officially launched. In the showcase, samples of unearthed bronzes, such as He Zun, Bi Pan, Bi Heng and Fang Ding, show the unique bronze culture of China, attracting a large number of tourists to stop and watch and punch in for photos.
   On January 26th, 2024, performers of the puppet show interacted with children in the waiting room of Quanzhou South Station of Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway.Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Yishe
    In the annual Spring Festival travel rush, peace is always the unchanging background of going home.
    In Shandong, the railway workers use the wheelset tread fault diagnosis system to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the EMU to ensure the quality of train maintenance in an all-round way. In Guizhou, Guiyang Power Supply Bureau of China Southern Power Grid organized operation and maintenance personnel to carry out electricity inspection in key power supply places in Spring Festival travel rush, such as stations, passenger stations and airports, to ensure the safety and reliability of electricity consumption for transportation; In Guangdong, Guangzhou Baiyun Station has strengthened the inspection of key equipment such as fire fighting, elevators, entrance and exit gates, and set up a special fast lane at the entrance to ensure that key passengers such as the old, the young, the sick, the disabled and the pregnant, and the urgent passengers 20 minutes before driving smoothly enter the station …
   On January 26th, 2024, at the shanghai hongqiao railway station platform, the passenger (first from the right) escorted the key passengers on board.Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Xiang photo
    In view of the characteristics of Spring Festival travel rush this year, the Ministry of Transport and other departments jointly issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Safety Production of Comprehensive Transportation Spring Festival travel rush in 2024. "We will do our best to do a good job in the comprehensive transportation of Spring Festival travel rush’s safety production in 2024 and provide safe and reliable transportation services and guarantees for the people to celebrate the Spring Festival." The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport said.
   On January 26, 2024, the police of Beijing Railway Public Security Bureau distributed travel safety leaflets at Beijing West Railway Station.Xinhua News Agency reporter Xin Li photo
   "Big Bags and Small Bags" and "Poetry and Distance": All roads are full of flavor.
    At 10 o’clock on the 26th, in the waiting hall of Kunming Station, passengers on the C638 train to Shangri-La were queuing to check in.
    In the procession, the Tibetan man Lavandoji is carrying big bags of new year’s goods: the woven bag is filled with new clothes for parents and children, the backpack is filled with snacks such as candy and snacks, and the handbag is his newly bought children’s toys … "I have been working outside for half a year, and I finally went home today!" Lavandoji said.
    More than 30 kilometers away from Shangri-La Station, the staff of Xiaozhongdian Station are busy loading the goods on the train. Hu Huayan, the stationmaster, told the reporter that the freight volume of Lixiang Railway has exceeded 32,000 tons, and local products such as yak meat and Tibetan fragrant pigs are constantly coming out of the mountains through the railway.
    On the way home, a parcel carries thoughts and sails far away. Dalian Cherry, Shandong Strawberry, Maoming Litchi, Yunnan Flowers, Inner Mongolia Beef and Mutton … With the help of China Railway Express’s "high-speed rail+fresh food" service, the heavy "new year’s goods follow people" is gradually changing into a relaxed "new year’s goods can be reached at will".
    Spring Festival travel rush, just like a time train, reflects the changes of the times, and also carries the longing and dreams for a better life.
   On January 26th, 2024, the bus passed the Zhiping Toll Station of Chongqing Ring Expressway.Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Quanchao photo
    In Jiangxi, the Changjing-Huangzhou high-speed railway opened at the end of last year ushered in the "first show" of Spring Festival travel rush, and also brought prosperity to Wanghu Ecological Tourist Area, a scenic spot in Yaoli, Fuliang County, Jiangxi Province.
    "In the past, tourists had to take a bus from Jingdezhen City to Fuliang County, and then transfer to Yaoli. Now the scenic spot is only 3 kilometers away from the station, and more and more people come to play." Hua Demin, chairman of Fuliang Yaoshan Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. said.
    In Shenyang, the D8083 train loaded with more than 500 passengers departed from Shenyang North Station and started an ice and snow journey to Changbai Mountain. Huang Lan, from Nanjing, said that she and her family went to Harbin first, then to Shenyang, and this time she went skiing in Changbai Mountain.
    At the decorated Tianfu Airport in Chengdu, the reporter saw Chen Yuanzhe and his wife who took photos in front of the "Panda Happy New Year" landscape. They were going to fly to Changsha to celebrate the New Year with their son who worked there. Chen Yuanzhe said: "As long as you are with your family, you will be reunited everywhere."
    According to the big data of air travel, during Spring Festival travel rush, the flight attendance rate of popular tourist cities such as Beijing to Sanya and Shanghai to Guangzhou has reached 90%. The travel report of the same journey to Spring Festival travel rush shows that in addition to "going south to avoid the cold", Harbin’s ice and snow tourism is also very hot, driving the passenger flow in the whole Northeast to increase substantially. Where to Go Big data shows that during Spring Festival travel rush, outbound travel has quietly warmed up. The extension of the Spring Festival holiday, the increase of visa-free countries and the resumption of international flights have all stimulated the enthusiasm of China tourists to spend the Spring Festival abroad.
    Spring Festival travel rush is the starting point to continue the revitalization of all industries.
    In 40 days, 9 billion people walked Spring Festival travel rush Road, showing a vibrant and energetic China. Over the years, spring is full of mountains and rivers. The new year is bound to be a warmer year.
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