CCTV News: The 2025 Spring Festival travel rush ends on February 22. Data from the 2025 comprehensive transportation Spring Festival travel work team showed that during the 40 days of the Spring Festival travel rush, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society was 9.02 billion, an increase of 7.1% over the same period in 2024.

Among them, the number of railway passengers was 510 million, an increase of 6.1% year-on-year; the number of highway personnel flow was 8.39 billion, an increase of 7.2% year-on-year; the number of water passengers was 31.21 million, an increase of 7.6% year-on-year; the number of civil aviation passengers was 90.2 million, an increase of 7.4% year-on-year.

Inventory of the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush: "Ice and snow fever" appears in both north and south, and transportation helps ice and snow tourism

This year's Spring Festival travel rush also shows a feature: both in the cold north and the warm south, there is ice and snow tourism fever.

The hosting of the Asian Winter Games has brought warm to the "two-hour" and "three-hour" economic and tourism circles centered on Harbin. The number of domestic air ticket orders with Harbin as the destination increased by more than 20% year-on-year, and the number of hotel bookings increased by nearly 60% year-on-year. Harbin's cumulative reception of inbound tourists increased by 144.7% year-on-year.

A major feature of this year's Spring Festival travel rush is that ice and snow tourism has appeared in many places in northern and southern my country. Data shows that the popularity of hotel booking in Altay, Yili, Heilongjiang Qitaihe, Inner Mongolia and other places in the north increased by more than 40% year-on-year. The popularity of ice and snow consumption in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places in the south has increased by more than 1 times.

In order to cope with the ice and snow tourism boom, this year's Spring Festival travel rush, railway departments in various regions have increased the frequency of trains running between popular ice and snow tourism cities. Railway and transportation departments in various regions have opened up a "fast lane" for ice and snow tourism, achieving seamless connection between train stations, bus stations and ski resorts. In response to the surge in tourists going to Shangri-La in Yunnan, the Yunnan Railway Department has launched tourist trains from popular tourist cities such as Xishuangbanna, Kunming, and Dali to Lijiang. Tourists then transfer to the EMU train from Lijiang to Shangri-La and go directly to Shangri-La. The first ice and snow-themed train to Harbin was launched in Xiamen, Fujian.

Wu Zhenbin, the passenger duty station of Xiamen North Station of the National Railway Nanchang Bureau, said: "We have set up a special waiting area for group passengers in the waiting hall and arranged a special escort service to make the elderly group travel stable and warm in their hearts."