China News Service, May 7, according to the official Weibo news of the Ministry of Transport, from May 1 to 5, the country's railways, roads, waterways, and civil aviation sent a total of 121 million passengers, an average of 24.293 million daily, compared with the same period in 2019 The daily average fell by 53%. During the "May Day" period, the national railway, highway, waterway, civil aviation, and postal industries operated normally, with good transportation order, stable and orderly market operation, and a generally stable production safety situation in transportation.
Data map: May 5, passengers at Nanjing Railway Station. China News Agency reporter Tuobo
From 1st to 5th May, the national railways delivered a total of 28.477 million passengers, with an average of 5.694 million passengers per day, a decrease of 60.9% from the same period in 2019.
The average daily traffic volume of national highways reached 43.182 million, a decrease of 7.76% compared with the same period in 2019. Among them, the average daily flow of passenger cars was 35.195 million, a decrease of 13.83% over the same period in 2019; the average daily flow of trucks was 798.76 million, an increase of 33.73% over the same period of 2019. The national highway network is generally stable and orderly. The traffic conditions of expressways, trunk roads of ordinary countries and provinces, entrances and exits of major and medium-sized cities, toll stations and tourist attractions are basically good.
In terms of road passenger transportation, during the “May Day” period, there were about 86.14 million passenger vehicles on the roads, and the average daily passenger traffic was 17.228 million, which was a 49.9% decrease from the average daily passenger traffic in May last year. From the perspective of passenger flow, the passenger flow exceeded 18 million for the first time on May 1st, reaching the peak of the holiday. From the perspective of regional distribution of concentrated passenger flows, the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and other urban agglomerations and Chengdu, Xi'an, Zhengzhou and other provincial capital cities are the most active.
The number of passengers sent by waterway nationwide was 3.713 million, with an average daily number of 742,600, which was a decrease of 32.9% compared with the average daily waterway passenger traffic in May last year. The port and waterway networks are operating normally and are safe and smooth.
3.16 million passengers were transported by civil aviation, a year-on-year decrease of 63.8%; the average passenger load factor was 66.4%, a year-on-year decrease of 17.3 percentage points; the actual flight number was 39936, a year-on-year decrease of 50.33%, and the average flight normality rate was 96.95%, an increase of 6.6 percentage points year-on-year. The airports with more passengers entering and leaving the port are Chengdu, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Kunming, Shanghai, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Haikou, etc. However, due to the epidemic situation, the overall passenger load factor is low, and the average passenger load factor of each major airport is Both are less than 80%, with ample supply of capacity.
The national postal industry received 1.102 billion parcels, an increase of 41.8% year-on-year; delivered 1.038 billion parcels, an increase of 38.93% year-on-year.