CCTV News: January 21 is the eighth day of the Spring Festival travel rush. The reporter learned from the China Railway Group that on the 21st, the national railway is expected to send 13.15 million passengers and plans to add 1,716 passenger trains. The passenger flow in key areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou has further increased. On the 21st, the national highway network traffic was expected to exceed 35 million vehicles, showing a significant growth trend.
At present, the expressways around Beijing are basically stable. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and other places have seen obvious slow traffic. Civil aviation is expected to send 2.27 million passengers on the 21st. The national average daily flights were 18,861 in the seven days before the Spring Festival travel rush, an increase of 8.36% over the same period in the 2024 Spring Festival travel rush; the average daily passenger transport volume exceeded 2.2 million, an increase of more than 7% over the same period in the 2024 Spring Festival travel rush.
Tongs will be exempted when small passenger cars are on the expressway during the Spring Festival holiday
In addition, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport on the 21st that small passenger cars are on the expressway during the Spring Festival holiday this year, and the free passage period starts and ends from 00:00 on January 28 (New Year's Eve) to 24:00 on February 4 (the seventh day of the first lunar month), totaling 8 days.
