In the first week of Spring Festival travel rush, the national railway sent 81.55 million passengers.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 2nd (Fan Xi, Tang Jiayu) On February 2nd, Spring Festival travel rush spent its first week in 2024. According to the data from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd., from the opening of Spring Festival travel rush on January 26th to February 1st, the national railway Spring Festival travel rush sent 81.55 million passengers in the first week, with an average of 11.65 million passengers per day.

Spring Festival travel rush in 2024 was officially launched on January 26th and ended on March 5th, lasting for 40 days. The national railways are expected to send 480 million passengers, an increase of 37.9% compared with Spring Festival travel rush in 2023.

In order to ensure passengers’ safe and orderly travel, Hankou Station of China Railway Wuhan Bureau Group Company upgraded the comprehensive service area of the waiting room on the second floor, and aggregated the transit passenger transfer center, the "old, young, sick, disabled and pregnant" key passenger waiting area, and children’s playground. Four independent areas, such as maternal and child nursing rooms, further enhance the passenger travel experience; China Railway Chengdu Bureau Group Co., Ltd. cooperated closely with Guiyang Power Supply Bureau of China Southern Power Grid to carry out Spring Festival travel rush power protection inspections on power supply lines along Guiyang Station, Guiyang North Station and Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway to ensure safe and worry-free travel. Zhengzhou Bureau Group Company of China Railway organized the public works system to clean the snow in key parts of turnouts and apply antifreeze to ensure the safe operation of trains in low-temperature rain and snow weather.