＂The hottest Spring Festival travel rush in history＂ ended yesterday.

Passengers who took the bullet train to Guangzhou during their stay in Spring Festival travel rush.

　　Yesterday, the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush 2024 came to an end. Guangzhou Railway Group has accumulated 139 million passengers, setting a record high in Spring Festival travel rush and becoming "the hottest Spring Festival travel rush in history". The cross-regional flow of hundreds of millions of people has driven the consumption fever and tourism fever to continue to be hot. Behind this year’s huge traffic in Spring Festival travel rush is the miracle of China’s economic and social development, urbanization development, infrastructure development and scientific and technological innovation development. The railway department has always answered Spring Festival travel rush’s "Grand Exam" from the perspective of development, making this "world’s largest population migration" safer, more orderly and warmer.

　　Text/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Huang Qing Correspondent Jing Hu and Sun Yupeng

　　Figure/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Chen Youzi

　　school report; transcript

　　In 40 days in Spring Festival travel rush, Guangzhou Railway Group sent a total of 71.496 million passengers, an increase of 31.4% compared with 2023 and 15.2% compared with 2019; The cumulative number of passengers reached 68.398 million, an increase of 27.8% compared with 2023 and an increase of 7.1% compared with 2019.

　　Twenty stations, including Shenzhen East, Zhanjiang West and Chaoshan, have repeatedly hit record highs in passenger traffic. Twenty stations, including Shenzhen East and Zhanjiang West, set a new record for passenger arrivals.

　　Make full use of capacity and reverse Spring Festival travel rush into a trend

　　According to the introduction of the Passenger Transport Department of Guangzhou Railway Group, since Spring Festival travel rush, there have been 120,075 passenger trains, 3,001 daily trains, 37,170 reconnected multiple units and 10,786 additional passenger trains, including 3,889 night high-speed trains.

　　From the travel time, the passenger flow sent by Guangzhou Railway in Spring Festival travel rush this year is generally stable and orderly. Before the holiday, the number of returning passengers was relatively concentrated. From February 3 to 8, more than 2 million passengers were sent for six consecutive days, and the peak on February 3 sent 2.212 million passengers. The post-holiday peak appeared on February 17th, sending 2.202 million passengers, and sending more than 1.6 million passengers for four consecutive days from February 23rd to 26th.

　　From the perspective of travellers, the number of people aged 20 to 39 returning home decreased by 5.3% compared with the same period in 2023; The travel volume of people over 60 increased by nearly 30%. The data shows that "reverse Spring Festival travel rush" has become a new trend and new trend this year. Guangzhou and Shenzhen are not only popular starting points, but also popular destinations. Older people from Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and other working provinces choose to go to their children’s workplaces for Chinese New Year reunion. During Spring Festival travel rush, the total number of major stations in Guangdong reached 42.891 million, including 10.454 million in Guangzhou South Railway Station and 4,534 trains in Guangzhou Baiyun Station, sending 1.102 million passengers. The Guangzhou-Shantou and Shantou-Shantou high-speed railways have operated 4041 trains and sent 2.082 million passengers.

　　Facilitating the people and benefiting the people, ten measures warm people’s hearts

　　Guangzhou Railway Group has launched ten measures to facilitate and benefit the people in major railway stations and trains in Guangdong, Hunan and Qiong. There are 821 self-service check gates in real-name registration system, 5,188 gate gates in and out of the station, 950 security inspection devices, 318 liquid security inspection devices and 255 intelligent auxiliary map judging devices in the major railway stations in the pipeline, which ensure the safety of passengers and improve the security inspection efficiency. Guangzhou, Guangzhou East, Guangzhou Baiyun and other passenger stations set up passenger self-service delivery cabinets outside the security inspection area to facilitate passengers to deliver personal belongings, local products purchased in the station and articles that are inconvenient to carry on the bus.

　　Guangzhou South, Guangzhou Baiyun, Shenzhen North and other stations have set up free charging stations, and Guangzhou Baiyun Station has opened 24 petal charging lampposts to meet the charging needs of passengers. Guangzhou Baiyun, Zhanjiang West and other stations set up medical points, and arranged medical rescue personnel to be on duty at the station.

　　Directly hit the taste buds, new home-cooked meals on the high-speed rail.

　　"The fish-flavored shredded pork rice in 15 yuan is really affordable. My son and I both eat very well." Ms Peng from furong town, Xiangxi, took her son to visit relatives in Guangzhou. A cheap "home-cooked meal" made the trip more warm.

　　This year, in Spring Festival travel rush, Guangzhou Railway Group upgraded the supply of cold chain meals on high-speed trains in four aspects: category, distribution structure, weight and cold chain safety. It launched cheap and high-quality "home-cooked meals" and innovatively developed 16 cheap and high-quality packages from 15 yuan to 30 yuan, such as shredded pork with fish sauce, braised fish pieces, fried pork with carrots and Dongan chicks. The number of cheap meals below 30 yuan reached 22.

　　Cheap "home cooking" sold 500,000 copies from January 26th to March 5th, with an average daily sales of 12,500 copies, accounting for more than half of the sales of high-speed rail meals of Guangzhou Railway Group.

　　Take snow as the order, take many measures to fight the cold wave simultaneously.

　　This year, three rounds of cold wave weather swept across the country in Spring Festival travel rush. Guangzhou Railway Group mobilized party organizations at all levels and all party member, and organized more than 40,000 party member to escort passengers safely.

　　Guangzhou South, Guangzhou, Guangzhou Baiyun, Shenzhen and other stations set up 40 party member Commandos and 20 emergency service teams to ensure effective handling in case of large-scale train delay, bad weather transportation organization and sudden large passenger flow, and provide warm-hearted services at key places such as security checkpoints and information desks. Guangzhou EMU organized personnel to strengthen the maintenance of key parts such as pantograph, air conditioner, bogie, etc. on the EMU roof, replace the ice scraping carbon skateboard of the hot pulley block, and carry out hot sliding maintenance on the affected lines.

　　Expand freight capacity and do a good job in the transportation of key materials

　　Guangzhou Railway Group pays special attention to the transportation of key materials, increases the input of cargo transportation capacity, and ensures that during the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the transportation of materials will not stop, and the logistics service will not stop. Combined with the transportation characteristics of fresh foods such as fruits, cooked food and dried fruits, Guangzhou Railway Group has intensively added more than 50 express packages of "New Year’s Goods in the Bay Area" to Huangcun, Beijing and Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, with a total transportation of 18,100 tons and more than 5.775 million e-commerce packages. Together with logistics enterprises, it has continuously optimized the inter-city batch express delivery service to ensure that the "New Year’s Goods in the Bay Area" will arrive home on time.

　　Weaving dense road network, steady progress of key projects

　　During the Spring Festival, the construction sites of high-speed rail lines such as Meilong, Guangzhan and Shenjiang in Guangzhou Railway Group are full of tower cranes, and the machinery is roaring, which makes the construction scene in full swing.

　　At the Pearl River Mouth Tunnel Project of Shenjiang High-speed Railway in Wanqingsha Town, Nansha, Guangzhou, the "Dawan Area Code" shield machine digs 2 meters a day, and advances safely and orderly towards the key nodes of the construction of the shield and the boundary point of drilling and blasting. During the Spring Festival, three control engineering sites of Shenjiang high-speed railway were constructed as usual, and 178 builders held their posts.