Railway Dragon Boat Festival holiday transportation sent 70.379 million passengers during the holiday | transportation | passengers
On June 25th, the 5-day railway Dragon Boat Festival holiday transportation ended successfully, with a total of 70.379 million passengers sent by the national railway, an increase of 7.141 million or 11.3% compared to the same period in 2019. Among them, 16.087 million passengers were sent on June 22nd, setting a new historical high in the daily passenger volume of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and the transportation was safe, stable, and orderly.
The person in charge of the Transportation Department of China Railway Group introduced that during this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, there was a strong demand for family visits, student trips, tourism trips, and the transportation of key materials such as electricity and coal was a heavy task. The railway department coordinated the organization of passenger and freight transportation, carefully formulated train operation plans, made every effort to increase transportation capacity, improve service quality, and effectively ensured the safe and orderly travel of passengers and the transportation of key materials.
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One is to increase transportation capacity investment to meet the travel needs of passengers. Implement a peak train schedule, with an average of 10776 passenger trains operating daily and a peak of 11174 trains on peak days. According to the pre-sale data of railway 12306 tickets, the transportation capacity is flexibly arranged by adding night high-speed trains, moving sleeper trains, and regular speed passenger trains to enhance the transportation capacity between key areas, popular directions, and tourist cities. A total of 309 night high-speed trains and 184 moving sleeper trains are added, and public welfare "slow trains" are continuously operated to fully meet the travel needs of passengers.
The second is to improve service quality and enhance the travel experience of passengers. Actively responding to the organization and service work of large passenger flow transportation, strengthening the guidance and boarding and alighting organization of passengers entering and waiting at the station during peak hours, ensuring a good travel order for station buses. We will conscientiously provide basic services such as catering water supply and sanitation, strengthen caring services for key passengers such as the elderly, children, sick, disabled, and pregnant, and ensure the smooth operation of new functions such as the 12306 online shop selection pilot and online verification of student discount tickets, further improving the travel experience of passengers.
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The third is to strengthen the transportation of key materials and ensure the needs of national economy and people's livelihood. Strengthen the organization of ensuring the supply of electric coal during the holiday period. From June 21st to June 25th, the national railway sent 20.58 million tons of electric coal, a year-on-year increase of 3.2%. The average available coal storage capacity of 363 railway direct supply power plants remained above 30 days, providing guarantees for peak summer in various regions. We strengthened the transport organization of China Europe regular trains, new land sea channel regular trains in the west, and cross-border freight trains on the China Laos railway, ensuring the demand for cross-border transport of foreign trade goods.
Photo: Wang Wei, Tong Yibo, Liu Xiang, Wan Wenpeng
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Reviewed by: Li Xiaoquan