On January 7, 2023, Spring Festival travel rush officially kicked off, which indicates that people are getting closer and closer to returning home and traveling. Many people are looking forward to embarking on a long journey, or going back to their hometown for a reunion year, or taking a trip.
According to preliminary analysis and judgment, the total number of national passenger flows in Spring Festival travel rush this year will exceed 2 billion, an increase of 99.5% over the same period of last year, and return to 70% of the same period in 2019 (2.98 billion). Such a passenger flow scale directly reflects the mobility enthusiasm of the whole society, and also makes people feel a hot "flowing China" again.
However, compared with previous years, this year’s peak of people flow and epidemic situation in Spring Festival travel rush is the most uncertain, complicated and challenging Spring Festival travel rush in recent years. According to the Ministry of Transport, this year, Spring Festival travel rush has shown the characteristics of a substantial increase in passenger flow, a substantial increase in freight demand, a greater risk of infection among front-line personnel, and an increase in hidden dangers in production safety.
This means that to ensure the smooth and orderly progress of Spring Festival travel rush this year, relevant departments, transportation enterprises and travelers need to make full response together. Passengers should take the initiative to do personal health protection. Relevant departments and transportation enterprises should not only implement detailed epidemic prevention and control measures, but also have perfect emergency plans for various uncertainties including traffic safety risks and natural disaster risks. Especially after the transportation system has experienced a period of low-load operation, Spring Festival travel rush still has some risk challenges to deal with in the face of a substantial increase in passenger flow this year. The responsible subjects in all links must keep up their spirits, attach great importance to it, think more about precautions and "safety redundancy", think more fully about difficulties and problems, and weave the "fence" of security measures and risk prevention more firmly and densely.
Spring Festival travel rush is connected with the dream of family reunion. This year, Spring Festival travel rush, which is the most complicated and challenging in recent years, is an exam with all-round increase in difficulty. All responsible subjects should fully respond with the ultimate sense of responsibility and concentration, so as to ensure everyone’s road to Spring Festival travel rush is safe and smooth, protect the dream of family reunion, and explore experience and gather confidence to promote the comprehensive recovery of social mobility. (Zhu Changjun, special commentator of Yang Guangwang)
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