3 billion people travel! The curtain of Spring Festival travel rush opens in 2020.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 10th (Reporter Fan Xi, Qi Zhongxi, Wei Yukun) Entering the year of building a well-off society in an all-round way, China has ushered in another year of Spring Festival travel rush. In 2020, Spring Festival travel rush kicked off on the 10th, and in 40 days, China is expected to have 3 billion trips.

In 2020, Spring Festival travel rush will start on January 10th and end on February 18th. According to Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, among the 3 billion passenger trips, it is estimated that there will be 2.43 billion passenger trips by road, 440 million by railway, 79 million by civil aviation and 45 million by water.

As the largest periodic population migration in the world, Spring Festival travel rush not only carries Chinese’s expectation for family reunion in the Spring Festival, but also is a "big test" for transportation security and even social governance.

The Spring Festival in 2020 is the earliest Lunar New Year in recent 8 years. Before the festival, the student flow and the work flow are superimposed on each other, and the passenger flow is relatively concentrated. Lian Weiliang said that this year’s railway capacity increased by 7% compared with that of Spring Festival travel rush in the previous year, of which 5,275 pairs of passenger trains were arranged before the festival, and the passenger capacity increased by 7.7% year-on-year; Civil aviation is expected to guarantee 704 thousand take-off and landing flights of domestic and foreign airlines; The highway is expected to have 790,000 operating buses, providing 23.1 million seats; The waterway is estimated to have 19,000 passenger ships, providing 830,000 seats.

Faced with the pressure from Spring Festival travel rush, railway, highway and civil aviation have taken measures simultaneously to ensure that passengers can not only walk well, but also walk well and quickly.

This year, Spring Festival travel rush Daxing International Airport was put into use, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei comprehensive transportation system was further improved; The addition of more than 10 new high-speed rail lines, including Jingzhang, Cheng Gui and Chang Gan, has eased the tension of railway transportation capacity in some areas; The provincial toll stations of national expressways are basically cancelled, and the realization of electronic toll collection (ETC) will improve the highway traffic efficiency; The railway fully implements "standby ticket purchase" and promotes e-tickets in high-speed rail trunk lines and most intercity railways to make passengers have a better travel experience.

In 2020, Spring Festival travel rush will have a stronger "science and technology flavor". New technologies such as paperless travel, face-brushing, ETC, and intelligent transportation guidance have made Spring Festival travel rush more "intelligent". Lian Weiliang said that all localities will further encourage and support enterprises to innovate intelligent transportation services, monitor station traffic, road congestion and scenic spots in real time, quickly find out the concerns of passengers, and realize the refined management of Spring Festival travel rush.