CCTV News: According to the official account of "China Railway", railway transportation was fully launched during the May Day holiday today. From April 29 to May 6, it lasted for 8 days. The national railway is expected to send 144 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%, with the highest peak of passenger flow on May 1.

This year's May Day holiday, passengers have a strong desire to travel, such as visiting relatives, traveling, and outings. The passenger flow is characterized by a large total number of travel, a high concentration of head and tail, and an increase in the middle and short-distance passenger flow. Judging from the pre-sale of railway 12306 tickets, the popular cities are mainly Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Nanjing, and Zhengzhou; the popular cities are mainly Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Nanjing, and Zhengzhou; the passenger flow in popular areas such as Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Beijing, Hohhot, Nanning, Guangzhou, Beijing to Chenyang, Shenzhen to Hong Kong is relatively concentrated. The railway department adheres to the people-centered development philosophy, carefully formulates transportation plans for the May Day holiday, scientifically arranges transportation capacity, improves service quality, implements service measures for convenience, benefiting the people, and strives to ensure safe, orderly and warm travel for passengers.

First, arrange transportation capacity scientifically and accurately. Make good use of routes and equipment resources, give full play to the advantages of high-speed rail network operation, and put into use a batch of Fuxing EMU trains. The national railways implement peak operation maps, and plan to run more than 12,000 passenger trains per day. Make full use of the railway 12306 ticket purchase big data to dynamically track passenger flow, and accurately deploy transportation capacity in popular areas and time periods by adding passenger trains and night high-speed trains, high-speed train reconnection, and ordinary passenger trains to add vehicles to the carriage, and arrange trains to operate in full groups among major cities, especially in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Maintain the scale of ordinary-speed trains and continue to drive public welfare "slow trains" and "rural revitalization" passenger trains to facilitate people along the route to travel. In order to deal with sudden passenger flow, a certain number of spare passenger buses and crew members are arranged in major railway hubs and ready to go online at any time.

The second is to carefully launch tourist trains. Implement various measures to increase the number of silver-hailing tourism trains and promote service consumption actions to adapt to the needs of tourists' holiday travel, actively promote the "train toward scenic spots", design boutique tourism routes, arrange and launch unique tourist trains and silver-hailing special trains among popular tourist cities, and work with hotels, scenic spots, and catering companies along the route. "Panda Special Train", "Silk Road No. 1" and other brand tourism trains will be launched on Chengdu to Kashgar, Xinjiang, Jiansan, Xi'an to Mohe, Jinan to Zaozhuang to Weihai to Jinan, etc., explore and create movie-themed trains, expand new scenarios of tourism consumption, give birth to new experiences on holiday travel, help the development of tourism economy and silver-hailing economy, and inject new impetus into the comprehensive expansion of domestic demand. Carefully organize cross-border passenger transportation, drive the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway cross-border passenger train and the China-Laos, China-Mongolia, and China-Russia international passenger trains to facilitate cross-border personnel exchanges, and serve passengers' cross-border tourism and shopping.

The third is to improve the quality of station and bus services. Make good use of the functions of railway 12306 waiting ticket purchase, key passenger reservation services, railway travel codes and other functions, dynamically optimize ticket issuance strategies based on passenger needs, and improve passenger ticket purchase experience. Strengthen services for key passengers such as the elderly, children, sick, disabled, and pregnant women, improve appointment and response efficiency, open up green love channels, and provide full-process guidance services. Optimize the flow lines of entry and transfers, strengthen convenient transfer guidance during peak hours, key locations and within the station, and ensure safe and orderly rides and departures for passengers. 120 stations across the country have achieved convenient transfers and transfers within the stations of joint tickets, and 37 stations have achieved no security checks for passengers arriving on the subway. Optimize station and bus catering services, enrich supply categories, improve taste quality, and strive to provide passengers with a "bowl of good rice". Coordinate local municipal transportation departments to encrypt bus and subway operations, extend operation time, and serve the "last mile" of passengers' travel. Strengthen publicity and guidance on civilized travel, and continue to carry out the second season of "My Railway Scenery" collection activity with the theme of "Beautiful Journey and Culture Companion", to create a civilized and harmonious travel environment.

The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including mobile client) is the only official channel for China Railway to provide Internet ticketing services to the society. Please be sure to purchase tickets through the official channels. During the holidays, there is a great demand for passengers to travel in a concentrated manner. Please arrange your itinerary reasonably, reserve sufficient time to enter the station and wait for the train, carry your own items strictly in accordance with regulations, and take the train in an orderly manner according to the ticket departure and end of the station. Do not "buy short and ride long" to achieve civilized travel and jointly maintain a good travel environment.