1 Moon 8 On [date], the State Council Information Office held a press conference to introduce... 2025 The situation and work arrangements for the annual Spring Festival travel rush. According to a relevant official from the National Development and Reform Commission, 2025 The annual Spring Festival travel season from 1 Moon 14 Starting from today to 2 Moon 22 End of day, lasting for 40 Heaven! This year’s Spring Festival travel rush will do its utmost to meet the transportation needs of both passengers and freight, and will coordinate efforts to ensure the smooth transport of essential energy materials such as coal, daily necessities including food, festive goods, and supplies for spring plowing and preparation.

A relevant official from the National Development and Reform Commission stated that, in terms of overall scale, according to estimates from departments such as transportation, inter-regional population mobility across society will reach— 90 Hundreds of millions of passenger trips—railway and civil aviation passenger volumes are expected to each surpass... 5.1 hundreds of millions of person-times and 9000 The number of passenger trips reached a new historical high. From a spatiotemporal perspective, this year’s Spring Festival is earlier than in previous years, and the period around the Spring Festival will see a confluence of four major passenger flows—students, migrant workers, visitors paying courtesy calls to relatives, and tourists—resulting in a high degree of concentration.

The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the Spring Festival travel rush. The Central Economic Work Conference made systematic arrangements for ensuring people’s livelihoods and maintaining safety and stability at the end of the year and the beginning of the new year. The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council have issued... “ Two classes ” The notice also sets forth clear requirements for the Spring Festival travel rush. A relevant official from the National Development and Reform Commission stated that this year’s Spring Festival travel rush will focus on four key areas: maximizing the satisfaction of passenger and freight transportation needs; consistently prioritizing safety as the top priority in all Spring Festival travel rush efforts; strengthening guarantees for essential resources such as coal, electricity, oil, and gas; and providing thoughtful and attentive services to travelers.

Among these efforts, in order to meet passenger and freight transportation needs to the greatest extent possible, departments such as transportation, railways, and civil aviation will strengthen their analysis of passenger flow demand, rationally develop transportation plans, and fully tap into transportation potential. They will also ensure coordinated allocation of transport capacity, reinforcing the deployment and organizational scheduling of transport resources during peak periods, in key regions, and along popular routes. Furthermore, they will coordinate and ensure the smooth transportation of essential energy materials such as coal, daily necessities including food, festive goods, and supplies for spring plowing and preparation.

A relevant official from the Passenger Transport Department of China State Railway Group stated that the Group will leverage its advantage of centralized, unified scheduling and command across the national railway network, scientifically utilize channel capacity, optimize and adjust the loading structure, and prioritize ensuring the transportation needs for coal used in power generation and heating. The Group will make every effort to guarantee the transportation of key commodities such as daily necessities, food and agricultural products, and fertilizers for spring plowing, thereby effectively helping to reduce overall social logistics costs and providing strong support for the steady operation of the national economy and the production and living needs of the people.

At the press conference, reporters learned that, in order to do its utmost to meet the travel needs of the public, the railway has adopted measures such as adding temporary passenger trains and operating high-speed trains at night, thereby tapping into greater transport capacity. At the same time, it is ensuring public-benefit services in remote areas. “ Slow train ” While ensuring point-to-point passenger transport within cities, we must also guarantee travel convenience for residents in remote, underdeveloped, and impoverished areas. It is expected that during the Spring Festival travel period, passenger trains will be scheduled daily. 1.4 Over 10,000 trains, with passenger capacity increasing by approximately... 4%。

“ China State Railway Group is deeply tapping into its line and equipment resources to maximize transportation capacity, with a particular focus on boosting capacity in directions experiencing concentrated passenger flows during the Spring Festival travel rush. At the same time, it is carefully coordinating and scheduling trains on non-concentrated routes, maintaining the current scale of regular-speed passenger train operations, and ensuring the smooth operation of public-benefit services. ‘ Slow train ’ and ‘ Rural Revitalization ’ Passenger trains make travel more convenient for the public. ” A relevant official from the Passenger Transport Department of China State Railway Group stated.

(Source: Agricultural Daily )