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CCTV News:The annual Spring Festival travel rush. On January 26th, 2024, Spring Festival travel rush officially opened. This year, Spring Festival travel rush will last for 40 days, and the cross-regional personnel flow across the country is expected to reach 9 billion, a record high. According to the data from the comprehensive transportation Spring Festival travel rush working class in 2024, it is estimated that the cross-regional personnel flow of the whole society will reach 182 million person-times on January 26th. Among them, the railway passenger traffic is expected to be 10.6 million, the highway passenger flow is expected to be 169.71 million, the waterway passenger traffic is expected to be 520,000, and the civil aviation passenger traffic is expected to exceed 2 million.
On the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, the top ten national railway stations were released.
According to the pre-sale of 12306 railway tickets, the top ten national railway passenger flows on January 26th were shanghai hongqiao railway station, Guangzhou South Railway Station, Beijing West Railway Station, Shenzhen North Railway Station, Nanjing South Railway Station, hangzhou east railway station, Shanghai Railway Station, Chengdu East Railway Station and Xi ‘an North Railway Station.

Spring Festival travel rush of Shenzhen North Railway Station is expected to transport 205,000 passengers at full capacity on the first day.
As the Shenzhen North Railway Station, which ranked the top ten in the country in terms of passenger flow on January 26th, what is the current situation there? Who has set foot on the road home? Our reporter in front, Zhang Qinsi, is at Shenzhen North Station at the moment. Hello, Qin Si, please tell us something about your situation there.
CCTV reporter Zhang Qinsi:January 26th is the first day of Spring Festival travel rush. Now I am at Shenzhen North Railway Station, and I have entered the rhythm of Spring Festival travel rush. The railway station can be said to be extremely busy. We can see that the number of on-site passengers is much higher than usual. On January 26th, Shenzhen North Railway Station is expected to send 205,000 passengers and reach 120,000 passengers. It can be said that the passenger flow on the first day is running at a high level and has reached full capacity.

At present, the passenger flow of Shenzhen North Railway Station is mainly returning home from work, while the arriving passengers are mainly visiting relatives and traveling. In order to provide better service to passengers, we saw a new all-in-one machine for security, inspection and danger from the station entrance, which improved the speed of passengers’ luggage passing through the plane. In the waiting area, I saw more seats for free charging. Inside and outside the station, volunteers and railway police are busy to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers.

Many passengers said that it was very difficult to get tickets for Spring Festival travel rush this year. The staff of the railway department also told us that during their stay in Spring Festival travel rush, they will take measures such as adding temporary passenger trains, reconnecting emus, and adding carriages to ordinary passenger trains, so as to flexibly increase the capacity in popular directions, intervals and time slots in time, so as to better meet the travel needs of everyone in Spring Festival travel rush.
During its stay in Spring Festival travel rush, Shenzhen Railway is expected to send 10.1 million passengers, and the passenger flow will hit a record high in Spring Festival travel rush.
Harbin, Heilongjiang: Spring Festival travel rush’s first-day railway passenger flow hit a record high.
After talking about the south, let’s take a look at the situation in the north. This winter, Harbin is in full swing. What will be the difference in Spring Festival travel rush this year? At the moment, our reporter Yuan Yi is at Harbin Railway Station. Hello, Yuan Yi, tell us about your situation there.
CCTV reporter Yuan Yi:The third performance on January 26th is being performed in the waiting room of Harbin. With the melodious sound of the piano, it has entered the peak of passenger flow at night. There are many passengers waiting in line behind me to check in. The short-distance high-speed train is the main passenger flow during the day, and the long-distance train is the main one at night. Just two hours ago, the Northeast Folk Culture Theme Tourism Train bound for Mohe, a popular direction, just started. I also got on the bus and took a look. The Northeast Kangtou moved into the carriage, with big quilts, New Year pictures, and folk performances such as Northeast Errenzhuan and Yangko. Passengers can also package jiaozi, taste frozen pears, sticky bean bags and so on.

Enthusiastic fancy pets in Northeast China are not only reflected in cars, but also in stations. The service desk provides free drinks such as brown sugar water and ginger tea to warm the stomach for passengers.

Since New Year’s Day this year, the number of passengers in Harbin has remained at a high level. On January 26th, the passenger flow in Harbin reached a new high on the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, among which 108,000 passengers arrived and 98,000 passengers were sent, which more than doubled year-on-year.
Many of the passengers waiting for the bus are returning tourists, holding local products such as sausage in their hands. This year, there are 25 merchants in Spring Festival travel rush and Harbin stations, not only local products of Harbin, but also imported goods like Russian dolls.

While a large number of foreign tourists come here to experience the ice and snow tour, they also inspire the enthusiasm of Harbin locals to travel, such as Haikou, Guangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou, and tourists from the surrounding counties and districts of Harbin told me that children work in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. In previous years, children returned to their hometowns for the New Year. This year, they went to their cities to reunite. On the one hand, they had more time for retirement, and at the same time, they felt different tastes in other cities. We can see that tourism and leisure have become a New Year custom, and reverse Spring Festival travel rush has also become a new trend.
According to the latest data from China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd., as of 0: 00 today, over 90 million tickets have been sold during the Spring Festival travel rush, and everyone has a strong desire to travel.
Sichuan: It is more convenient to travel in Spring Festival travel rush after many highways are completed and opened to traffic.
According to the forecast, 80% of the 9 billion people traveling in Spring Festival travel rush this year will choose to travel by car. Recently, many highways across the country have been completed and opened to traffic, which also makes it more convenient for passengers to travel.
On the eve of Spring Festival travel rush in 2024, several expressways in Sichuan Province were completed and opened to traffic. These two days, Jiuzhaigou, located in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, Mianyang, Sichuan — On Mianyang Expressway, many people have set foot on the journey home one after another.

Li Zhixia’s new route to his hometown is one of the newly put into operation sections of Jiumian Expressway project at the end of last year. After the project was opened to traffic, it ended the history that Jiuzhaigou County and Beichuan County were closed to highways, and the transit time from Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou was shortened from 8 hours to 5 hours. Not only expressways, but also rural roads in many places have recently completed rejuvenation projects. In Fengyang Village, Kaiping Township, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, the road for villagers to return home was upgraded not long ago, welcoming the first batch of people who returned home for the New Year.

Returning home is smoother, and this Spring Festival holiday, go on road trip tourists have many new choices. As the Spring Festival approaches, the popularity of Hainan Island Tourism Highway, which was opened soon after the whole line, is rising.
The data shows that in 2023, the newly rebuilt highways in China exceeded 7,000 kilometers, and the newly rebuilt rural roads exceeded 180,000 kilometers. The Ministry of Transport predicts that during Spring Festival travel rush in 2024, the average daily traffic of the national highway network will reach 37.2 million vehicles, an increase of 7.5% over the same period last year.
Shanghai: During Spring Festival travel rush, the airport passenger flow will reach 12.93 million passengers.
In terms of civil aviation, on January 26th, the four major urban agglomerations of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangrong had a large passenger flow, and regional hub airports such as Kunming, Xi ‘an and Hangzhou were also popular. During this year’s Spring Festival travel rush, Shanghai Pudong and Hongqiao airports are expected to have 86,000 flights and 12.93 million passengers. The airports and airlines have continuously improved the passenger travel experience.
This year, the domestic popular routes of Spring Festival travel rush, Shanghai Pudong and Hongqiao airports are concentrated in Dalian, Shenyang, Changchun, Harbin, Chongqing and Kunming. International and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan routes are concentrated in Japan, South-East Asia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. During Spring Festival travel rush, it is estimated that there will be 56,000 flights and 7.73 million passengers at Shanghai Pudong Airport.

During Spring Festival travel rush, Shanghai Hongqiao Airport is expected to have 30,000 flights and 5.2 million passengers. During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, China Eastern Airlines joined forces with railways, airports and other units to set up an air-rail intermodal transfer service center at Hongqiao Railway Station, set up a check-in counter in the arrival area of high-speed railway station, and launched a high-speed train to handle check-in and checked baggage services.
Tianjin: Travel superposition return airport Spring Festival travel rush ushered in the peak of passenger flow on the first day.
Some people set foot on their way home, while others chose to take their luggage and travel with the whole family. On January 26th, Tianjin Airport also ushered in the first day passenger flow peak in Spring Festival travel rush.
At 9 o’clock in the morning on the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, the reporter saw in the departure hall of Tianjin Binhai International Airport that there was a long queue in front of the check-in counter. On the first day of Tianjin Binhai International Airport, there were nearly 450 take-off and landing flights in Spring Festival travel rush, and it is estimated that the number of passengers transported will reach 57,000, mainly those who traveled in the wrong peak and those who returned home.

The flow of visiting relatives, students, workers and tourists is superimposed at a high level. Tianjin Airport will usher in the peak passenger flow on the 23rd and 29th of the twelfth lunar month, as well as the 7th, 11th and 16th of the first lunar month. Sanya, Haikou, Harbin and Chengdu have become the main passenger flow destinations. In view of the travel of elderly passengers, Tianjin Airport provides convenient services such as special person to check in, on-board care of flight attendants, and priority boarding and disembarking. For "late arrival passengers", a special counter has been set up, and at the same time, "late arrival" pass cards have been issued to passengers, which is convenient for passengers to use the security green channel to quickly pass the inspection.
Dalian, Liaoning: Smooth passenger flow at sea, convenient travel with e-ticket.
In terms of water transport, it is estimated that 30 million passengers will be sent by water in Spring Festival travel rush this year, with an average of 750,000 passengers per day. Dalian, Liaoning Province is an important inter-provincial maritime transportation hub city in Northeast China. On January 26th, Dalian Port officially opened the passenger Spring Festival travel rush mode.
At 10: 00 am on January 26th, the large ro-ro passenger ship Jilong Island, carrying more than 260 passengers and 68 vehicles of various types, set sail from Dalian Bay Passenger Station of Dalian Port for Yantai, Shandong Province. This is the first passenger flight of Spring Festival travel rush from Dalian Port on the first day, which marks the official opening of the Dalian Maritime Spring Festival travel rush in 2024. On the first day of Spring Festival travel rush, the passenger flow at the port was stable, with about 5,000 passengers entering and leaving the port and more than 2,300 vehicles, which was the same as the same period of last year. This year, Spring Festival travel rush and Dalian Port launched e-tickets for the first time. Passengers can check in and board the ship directly with their ID cards without using paper tickets.

At present, Liaoning Port Group Dalian Port passenger transport has put in 18 large and medium-sized ro-ro passenger ships. During the period of Spring Festival travel rush this year, it is estimated that there will be about 310,000 inter-provincial passengers entering and leaving the port, including about 190,000 outbound passengers and nearly 90,000 vehicles entering and leaving the port. The peak of passenger flow will appear around the 23 rd northern year of the twelfth lunar month and last until the Spring Festival.












