The summer sports have come to a successful end! A total of 830 million passengers have been sent by railways nationwide

The reporter learned from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. that on August 31st, the 62 day railway summer vacation was successfully completed. From July 1st to August 31st, China's railways have sent a total of 830 million passengers, setting a new record for the number of summer transport passengers. The country's railways have sent a total of 640 million tons of goods, ensuring stable operation and safe and orderly railway transportation.

The head of the transportation department of China Railway Group introduced that this summer's transportation demand for railway transportation is booming, with a combination of student flow, tourism flow, and family visit flow. The task of ensuring the supply of key materials such as electricity, coal, and grain is heavy. The railway department adheres to the development concept of putting the people at the center, efficiently coordinates the organization of passenger and freight transportation, carefully formulates train operation plans, increases transportation capacity investment, improves service quality and transportation efficiency, and fully meets the travel and logistics service needs of the people, providing strong support for the sustained recovery of the national economy.

Firstly, the passenger transportation capacity has significantly improved, and the travel needs of passengers have been well met. According to the dynamic analysis of the big data of 12306 ticket advance booking and alternate ticket purchase, flexibly increase passenger trains, organize multiple unit operation of multiple units, and add carriages to ordinary speed passenger trains to maximize passenger capacity, effectively increase the supply of transport capacity between popular areas such as Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Chengdu Chongqing, and major tourist cities such as Xi'an, Hangzhou, Mount Huangshan, and strive to meet the people's travel needs in summer. The daily average number of passenger trains operated by the national railway is 10269, with the highest daily ticket sales of 19.1 million and the highest daily passenger volume of 15.69 million on the 12306 railway. In response to the concentrated travel of summer students and tourists, 36 special student trains and characteristic tourism trains such as red tourism, study tours, and ecological tours will be operated; We strengthened the organization of cross-border passenger transport, and the China Laos Railway and the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou Shenzhen Hong Kong High speed Railway respectively sent 26000 and 4.72 million cross-border passengers. During the summer travel season, the top ten cities with the highest number of departing and arriving passengers are Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Xi'an, Changsha, and Nanjing. The top ten popular routes are Guangzhou to Shenzhen to Hong Kong, Beijing to Tianjin, Shanghai to Hangzhou, Chongqing to Chengdu, Guangzhou to Zhuhai, Beijing to Shanghai, Kunming to Dali, Hangzhou to Ningbo, Guangzhou to Changsha, and Chengdu to Mianyang.

The second is the improvement and upgrading of passenger transportation services, with continuous improvement in passenger experience. Optimize and improve the passenger information service function of 12306, add service scenarios such as temporary passenger trains, delay reminders, and ticket change in the same direction, and focus on pushing service information to all passengers on board. Strengthen passenger guidance and boarding and alighting organization, dynamically increase security checks, verification, ticket verification, and entry and exit channels, achieve convenient transfer at 120 stations nationwide, actively promote air rail and rail water intermodal transportation products, seamlessly connect with municipal transportation such as buses, subways, and taxis, and make passenger travel more efficient. Provide basic services such as station air conditioning, catering, and water supply, care for key passengers such as the elderly, children, sick, disabled, and pregnant, and promote the application of the "Railway Express Code" on 3500 high-speed trains, striving to create a warm journey. Make good use of the online verification function for student ticket discounts and qualifications, and complete the online verification of 4 million students during the summer vacation. Tilt the ticketing strategy towards student passengers and take multiple measures to ensure their travel. Build high-quality tourism train brands such as Panda Express, Dunhuang Express, and Jinghe Express to meet the diverse travel needs of passengers. Continuously drive public welfare "slow trains" to help people from poverty-stricken areas of all ages travel and rural revitalization.

The third is to maintain stable freight volume and ensure stable economic operation. We will deepen the special action to ensure the supply of electric coal, make good use of major coal transportation channels and busy trunk lines such as Datong to Qinhuangdao, Tangshan to Baotou, Watang to Rizhao, Haole Baoji to Ji'an, Lanzhou to Urumqi, actively connect with the transportation needs of major power plants, prioritize transportation capacity, implement precise supply guarantee, ensure that electric coal is fully loaded and delivered efficiently, and help various regions smoothly meet peak summer demand. 371 railway direct supply power plants in China have stored 74 million tons of coal, a year-on-year increase of 16.5%, and can consume 35.4 days. Carefully organizing the transportation of key materials such as summer grain, oil, and iron ore, opening up green channels, and strengthening full process monitoring and control, the national railway sent 19.6 million tons of grain, a year-on-year increase of 14%. Strengthen the international intermodal railway transportation organization, enhance the transportation capacity and customs facilitation level of railway ports, ensure stable and smooth cross-border cargo transportation, and send 326000 TEUs and 138000 TEUs of goods respectively by the China Europe freight train and the Western Land Sea New Corridor Sea Rail intermodal container freight train, with year-on-year growth of 7.1% and 20.2%, respectively; The China Laos Railway sent 840000 tons of cross-border goods, up 86.6% year on year, effectively promoting the domestic and international double circulation.

Fourthly, we will make every effort to do a good job in flood prevention and rescue, ensuring the safety and smooth flow of railways. Actively respond to extreme weather conditions such as Typhoon Tali, Dussuri, and Kanu, promptly activate emergency plans, proactively implement the strategy of "advance prevention, proactive avoidance, and effective rescue", and make every effort to do a good job in flood prevention and disaster relief. Organize hundreds of thousands of railway cadres and workers to strengthen line inspections and equipment maintenance, strictly implement flood season driving safety measures, and minimize the impact on railway transportation safety and order. In response to the water damage caused by multiple railway transportation routes, including Fengtai to Shacheng, Beijing to Yuanping, Beijing Harbin, and Beijing Kowloon, we have taken proactive measures such as reducing speed, adjusting routes, and stopping trains. We have made every effort to supplement food for trains on the way, and organized safe and orderly evacuation of stranded passengers to ensure the safety of their lives and property. Continuously do a good job in information dissemination, timely announce train shutdowns, delays, and other situations, provide services such as ticket refunds and changes, and minimize the impact on passenger travel as much as possible.