It is expected to send 63 million passengers, and railway transportation will start today during the New Year's Day holiday
A reporter from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News learned from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. that railway transportation during the New Year's Day holiday was officially launched today. It will last for five days from December 29, 2023 to January 2, 2024. Railways across the country are expected to send 6,300 passengers. 10,000 passengers, with the peak passenger flow on December 30, with an estimated 15 million passengers.
Among them, China Railway Beijing Bureau is expected to send 5.13 million passengers, with an average of 1.026 million passengers per day. The peak day is December 30, with an estimated 1.2 million passengers.
The person in charge of the transportation department of China Railway Group said that during the New Year's Day holiday, there is a strong demand for passenger travel and the supply of key materials. The railway department will increase the supply of passenger transport capacity, improve passenger travel experience, and ensure the transportation of key materials.
In terms of increasing passenger transport capacity, the China Railway Group will make full use of the capacity of newly opened high-speed rail lines and stations, coordinate high-speed rail and general-speed transport capacity resources, and implement a peak line operation chart for national railways, with an average of 10,680 passenger trains scheduled to operate every day. Based on the 12306 passenger ticket pre-sale and waiting list data, in some popular areas, lines and time periods, measures such as adding temporary passenger trains, reconnecting EMUs, and adding additional vehicles to regular-speed passenger trains have been adopted to increase transport capacity in a timely manner, and on major railways The hub has strengthened its capacity reserves to meet the holiday travel needs of passengers to the greatest extent.
In order to meet the travel needs of passengers to the greatest extent, China Railway Beijing Bureau has focused on supplementing Shijiazhuang, Zhangjiakou, Handan, Transport capacity in popular directions such as Harbin, Shenyang, Datong, Xi'an, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Changsha, and Kunming.
In terms of improving passenger travel experience, the China Railway Group will increase basic service guarantees such as heating, water supply, and catering, dynamically increase entry and exit security and ticket inspection channels based on passenger flow conditions, and increase guidance at key locations such as platforms and waiting rooms. Make good use of the railway 12306 online ordering, online shop selection, transfer, information services and other functions to provide services for key passengers such as the elderly, the young, the sick, the disabled and pregnant, strengthen online reservation management, improve offline response efficiency, and provide green channels and caring services. Strengthen connections with buses, subways, taxis and other transportation modes to make travel more convenient and efficient for passengers.
In terms of ensuring the transportation of key materials, the China Railway Group will take advantage of the centralized and unified dispatching and command of national railways and make every effort to ensure the transportation of key materials for the national economy and people's livelihood, such as coal, grain, and holiday items. In response to the occurrence of low temperature and cold wave weather in some areas, we will thoroughly implement the spirit of the State Council's video and telephone conference on keeping warm this winter and next spring, and increase efforts to ensure the supply and transportation of coal for power generation and heating. While ensuring that the number of days of coal storage in direct railway power plants across the country is stable at 20 On the basis of more than 10 days, we will coordinate the work of small and medium-sized power generation and heating enterprises to ensure supply, so as to provide strong support for the people to survive the winter safely and warmly. The China-Europe freight trains, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor trains, and the China-Laos Railway international freight trains will be well operated to ensure the stability and smooth flow of the international industrial and supply chains.
With the current climate changing frequently, the railway department will also actively prepare for and respond to low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters, strengthen on-duty duty, issue early warning information in a timely manner, take preventive measures in advance, and proactively avoid risks.
The railway department reminds passengers that railway passenger flow increases during the holidays. Passengers are asked to reserve sufficient time to enter the station and take the train, strengthen their own health protection during the journey, travel in a civilized manner, and jointly create a good travel environment.
