CCTV News: January 17 is the fourth day of the Spring Festival travel rush. On January 16, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society is expected to exceed 190 million. In recent days, the turnover of people has continued to rise, and the transportation and other departments have taken a number of measures to ensure smooth travel for the people and smooth and orderly transportation.

Data from the 2025 Comprehensive Transport Spring Festival Travel Work Team showed that on the 16th, the cross-regional personnel flow in the whole society was estimated to be 194.4 million, of which 11.6 million were railway passenger traffic. It is planned to add 608 passenger trains. As of 16:00 on the 16th, Railway 12306 has issued a total of 146 million tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush, and the system maintains safe and stable operation.

Since the start of the Spring Festival travel rush, passenger flow has continued to increase. Beijing South Railway Station has transformed and upgraded the Beijing-Tianjin intercity rapid entry hall, increasing the waiting area by about 260 square meters; a "urgent passenger" channel is set up during peak passenger flow to provide priority rapid entry services for passengers within 15 minutes of driving. In order to continue to facilitate the travel of mainland and Hong Kong passengers, Shenzhen North Station and Futian Station have comprehensively optimized gate software to improve traffic efficiency. The Hami Station of the National Railway Urumqi Bureau moved the security check entrance to the entrance of the waiting hall and set up a green entry channel to make passengers' travel smoother and more convenient. The Nanchang Railway Department of Jiangxi Province has strengthened the inspection and maintenance of wheel pairs in key parts of locomotives to eliminate performance hazards. The entire Spring Festival travel rush will complete nearly a thousand locomotive wheel pairs to ensure that each train can deliver passengers safely and smoothly to the distance.

In terms of highways, the traffic of the road network before the festival is mainly student flow, work flow and freight flow. The turnover of highway personnel is expected to exceed 180 million on the 16th, and the proportion of long-distance travel across provinces and regions has increased significantly compared with usual conditions. Before the holiday, the movement of people mainly involves migration of megacities and provincial capitals to surrounding cities and major labor export provinces and cities. As the proportion of new energy vehicle travel gradually increases, transportation, electricity and other departments provide charging convenience for new energy vehicle owners by adding mobile charging cars.

According to preliminary statistics, the passenger traffic of civil aviation during the Spring Festival travel rush this year is expected to exceed 90 million passengers, which is expected to hit a new record high. The reporter learned from the Civil Aviation Administration of China that on the 16th, civil aviation is expected to guarantee 18,690 flights, with an estimated number of seats available for 2.84 million, and an estimated number of passengers transported by 2.2 million. According to the booking monitoring data, the booking rate reached 100% on the 16th, with 55 routes and 5 airports departing from the port.

Li Mingzao, deputy general manager of Air China Operation Control Center, said: "The overall recovery rate of international and regional routes is relatively high, with an average daily flight execution of 240 flights, a year-on-year increase of 28%. Accessibility has recovered to the level of 99.8% in 2019."

In terms of water transportation, in order to alleviate the tension between new energy vehicles in the Qiongzhou Strait, during this year's Spring Festival travel rush, two special transport flatbed cargo ships for new energy vehicles officially sailed the route from Zhanjiang Hai'an New Port to Haikou Xiuying Port. The "professional personnel docking" method is adopted during loading, which greatly facilitates new energy vehicle owners to board the boat and saves drivers and passengers' ride time.