The reporter learned from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd.) that on February 15, the 40-day 2023 Railway Spring Festival travel rush was successfully concluded, and the national railway transportation was safe, stable and orderly, showing a booming trend of passenger and cargo, with a total of 348 million passengers sent, an increase of 94.73 million passengers and an increase of 37.4%, with an average daily delivery of 8.7 million passengers, including 15.5% in 2019. The national railway has sent a total of 415 million tons of goods and continued to operate at a high level.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport of China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd. introduced that this year, Spring Festival travel rush was the first Spring Festival travel rush after the 20th Party Congress was held successfully and the central authorities optimized and adjusted the epidemic prevention and control policies. The railway departments conscientiously implemented the deployment requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, better coordinated the epidemic prevention and control in the new stage and the key work of railway Spring Festival travel rush, better coordinated development and safety, fully served the people to travel safely, spend the winter warmly and run the national economy smoothly, successfully completed various tasks in Spring Festival travel rush, and realized "Safe Spring Festival travel rush, Orderly Spring Festival travel rush and Warm Spring Festival" to make passengers experience a better experience.
First, fully meet the travel needs of passengers.According to the principle of "adequate arrangement, on-demand start-up, quick response and emergency preparedness", scientifically formulate the bus operation plan; According to the pre-sale and standby data of railway 12306 ticket, dynamically optimize the passenger train operation, scientifically arrange the transportation capacity, and meet the passenger travel demand to the maximum extent; In view of the popular direction and time, measures such as opening high-speed trains at night, reconnecting emus, increasing the number of passengers, and adding vehicles to ordinary trains will be taken to increase the capacity in time. In 40 days in Spring Festival travel rush, the national railways operated 9,410 passenger trains every day, an increase of 6.8% over the same period in 2019, and the highest number of passenger trains in a single day was 10,700, an increase of 14% over the same period in Spring Festival travel rush in 2019; A total of 2,990 high-speed trains were operated at night, an increase of 845 trains compared with the same period in Spring Festival travel rush in 2019.
The second is to effectively enhance the passenger travel experience.Optimize and upgrade the functions of the railway 12306 system, with the maximum number of tickets sold in a single day reaching 13.25 million, and more than 1,000 tickets sold in one second at the peak, which is close to the peak in the same period in 2019; The success rate of alternate ticket redemption is about 75%. We will implement the newly issued railway passenger transport regulations of the state and implement preferential tickets for children according to their age. During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, 12.95 million preferential tickets for children were sold, benefiting more underage passengers; Optimize the rules for student passengers to purchase tickets and sell a total of 6.06 million student tickets. The service of "Railway Running Code" has been implemented on more than 3,400 sets of EMU trains nationwide, and the number of stations with convenient transfer and transfer services has increased to 100, making passenger travel more convenient and efficient; E-ticket is implemented across the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway, which supports passengers to register with the mobile phone numbers of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Province, greatly facilitating cross-border passengers’ travel. At the same time, we will increase the protection of travel services such as catering, water supply, cleaning, etc., strengthen key passenger services such as the elderly, the sick, the disabled and the pregnant, optimize the passenger boarding and disembarkation organization, dynamically increase the number of entry and exit channels, carry out youth volunteer service activities in depth, strengthen the connection with municipal transportation such as buses and subways, and get through the "first mile" and "last mile" of passenger travel services.
The third is to make every effort to build a safe and healthy journey.Strictly implement various measures to prevent and control the epidemic situation of station cars, advocate passengers to travel at wrong peaks, and reduce the gathering of people; Strengthen the organization of passenger flow at the station, actively promote contactless service, guide passengers to wait at the station in an orderly manner and keep a safe distance; Strengthen the ventilation and disinfection of key places such as toilets, hand sinks, elevator handrails and seats to maintain a good environment for the station car; Strengthen travel health promotion tips, guide passengers to wear masks throughout the journey, and strengthen their own health protection; Strictly regulate the health protection of front-line workers in Spring Festival travel rush, and strengthen the integrated management of cleaning, security inspection, catering and outsourcing personnel; Strengthen the joint prevention and control of roads and places, and do a good job in emergency response in an orderly manner. Actively respond to the rain and snow weather in some areas, strengthen transportation dispatching command and equipment maintenance, and create a healthy and safe travel environment for passengers.
The fourth is to fully guarantee the transportation of key materials.Carefully organize freight transportation, make overall use of resources such as lines, vehicles, personnel, loading and unloading machines, etc., and improve the capacity of freight transportation. The national railway has an average daily loading capacity of 172,000 vehicles, up by 0.2% year-on-year. We will continue to implement the action of ensuring the supply of coal, make good use of the capacity of large coal transportation channels such as Daqin Railway, Haoji Railway and Wari Railway, and increase the operation of 10,000-ton trains. The average daily load of coal is 62,000 vehicles, up by 7% year-on-year. The average number of days of coal storage in 363 railway direct power supply plants across the country has remained stable for more than 20 days, ensuring people’s warmth and safety in winter. Strengthen the transportation of medicine, food and holiday living materials, grain, fertilizer and other key materials related to the national economy and people’s livelihood, and implement accurate supply and priority transportation; Strengthen the docking of transportation needs of raw materials and finished products of enterprises, and fully guarantee the needs of enterprises in various places to resume work and production; The China-Europe train, the western land-sea new channel train and the China-Laos Railway international freight train were well started. The China-Europe train operated a total of 1,802 trains and delivered 190,000 TEUs, up 14% and 23% respectively year-on-year. The western land-sea new channel train delivered 74,100 TEUs, up 3.7% year-on-year, and China-Laos Railway delivered 325,000 tons of cross-border goods, up 282% year-on-year, which effectively guaranteed the stability of the international industrial chain supply chain.