CCTV News: Starting next Tuesday, January 14, the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush will officially start. The reporter learned from the Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center that the train tickets for January 25, which is the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, will be released on January 11, and the tickets for the Spring Festival before the Railway Festival have entered the peak of sales.
As of the 11th, a total of 57.68 million tickets for Spring Festival travel have been sold
Since the Spring Festival travel tickets started to be sold on December 31, 2024, by 9:00 on January 11, a total of 57.68 million tickets for Spring Festival travel have been sold. The relevant person in charge said that due to the "crowding" of demand in some regions and time periods before the festival, transportation capacity is still tight, especially on popular routes, passengers "crowding" to choose some trains with more appropriate starting and ending time and shorter travel time throughout the journey. The contradiction is prominent. At present, some trains in non-tensive periods still have more tickets.
The cross-regional personnel flow in the whole society will reach 9 billion
The transportation department predicts that the cross-regional personnel flow in the whole society will reach 9 billion in the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush. Judging from the travel structure, self-driving travel is expected to reach 7.2 billion, and the passenger volume of railway and civil aviation is expected to exceed 510 million and 90 million respectively, both setting record highs.
In order to ensure the travel of key groups, major passenger stations across the country have also set up green channels, maternal and infant waiting rooms and station medical points. The green channels mainly facilitate emergency passengers and key passengers with elderly, children, sick and disabled 15 minutes before driving are given priority to get in the station and take the bus.
