CCTV News: According to the WeChat official account of "China Railway", from January to February, the number of passengers sent by railways nationwide was 726 million, an increase of 4.7% year-on-year, setting a record high in the same period, and transportation was safe, stable and orderly.
From January to February, the annual Spring Festival travel rush runs through it, with the flow of people across regions accelerating, the flow of students, work, visiting relatives and tourism flow superimposed, and the passenger flow of railways showed a strong growth trend. The railway department carefully organized the Spring Festival travel rush, made good use of newly opened lines, stations and newly configured EMU equipment in 2024, optimized the train operation plan, timely increased capacity supply in popular directions, time periods and intervals, maintained the scale of ordinary train operation, and drove public welfare "slow trains" and "rural revitalization" trains. The national railways operated an average of 11,605 passenger trains per day, an increase of 8.7% year-on-year.
Optimize the supply of passenger transport products, implement measures to facilitate and benefit the people, and continuously improve the quality of passenger transport services. Railway 12306 has launched new functions such as "the system automatically submits ticket orders" and special service areas for student and migrant workers to make appointments for ticket purchases. 120 stations across the country can achieve convenient transfers, 32 stations implement security checks for passengers arriving on the subway, 89 stations provide Internet meal ordering services, and the "silent carriage" service has been expanded to 99 high-speed trains, making passenger travel experience better.
Strengthen the organization of cross-border passenger transport. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway sent 5.027 million cross-border passengers, an increase of 10.3% year-on-year, and the China-Laos Railway sent 59,000 cross-border passengers, an increase of 57.9% year-on-year. The China-Mongolia and China-Russia international passenger trains have been well driven, promoting cross-border personnel exchanges and tourism consumption. Successfully completed the railway transportation task of the Asian Winter Games, launched trains with unique characteristics such as silver tourism, ice and snow tourism, outings and flower appreciation, and created new consumption scenarios to help the development of tourism economy, silver economy, and ice and snow economy.
In the next step, the railway department will dynamically track passenger flow operation, enrich the supply of passenger products, increase the efforts to launch tourist trains, continuously improve the quality of station and train services, and strive to make the travel experience of passengers better.
