(Economic Observation) Multi-sectors join hands to face the "big exam" during the Spring Festival
China News Service, Beijing, January 15 (Liu Liang and Du Guiting) The 2021 Chinese Spring Festival will begin soon.
Different from previous years, the situation of new crown pneumonia at home and abroad has brought a lot of challenges to the Spring Festival this year.
In order to face the "big exam" during the Spring Festival, many Chinese departments have "made moves" at the 2021 National Spring Festival Video and Telephone Conference held on the 15th to deploy the Spring Festival.
Mutual recognition of national health codes during the Spring Festival
Currently, the epidemic situation at home and abroad is still complicated and severe.
Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, emphasized at the meeting that putting epidemic prevention and control at the top of the Spring Festival transport work is a work need to respond to the current complex situation of the epidemic.
He pointed out that at present, international flights have been significantly reduced, domestic routes have relatively sufficient capacity, and passenger demand is reduced, the pressure on commercial passenger transport is expected to be reduced, and the contradiction in Spring Festival transport will further shift from capacity supply to epidemic prevention and control.
In order to ensure the smooth flow of people during the Spring Festival travel, he especially emphasized the need to implement a unified policy, unified standards, national mutual recognition, and one-code access for epidemic prevention and health codes. If there is a reason why it cannot be mutually recognized with other regions, it must be reported first.
Open access to key passengers without health code
During the Spring Festival travel period, the large-scale movement of people brought considerable pressure on epidemic prevention and control and transportation.
In order to meet the travel needs of more people, Liu Xiaoming, the vice minister of the Ministry of Transport of China, stated that during the Spring Festival, transportation organization guarantees will be strengthened to effectively solve the problem of the "first and last mile" of passenger travel.
He also pointed out that during the Spring Festival travel period, measures for convenience services will be strengthened, including the promotion of "contactless" ticket sales and security measures such as e-tickets and swiping verification.
For key passengers, cash payments and paper tickets will be retained, and channels without health codes will be opened to provide convenient services for the elderly who cannot use smart technology.
Adjust the ticket pre-sale period and free refund period
Li Wenxin, deputy general manager of China National Railway Group Co., Ltd., pointed out that affected by measures to reduce the movement of people introduced in many places, the scale of population movement during the Spring Festival this year will be significantly lower than normal.
From the data point of view, the pre-sale of tickets before the Spring Festival Transport Festival has dropped by nearly 60% compared with the same period in previous years. It is expected that the national railway passenger flow during the Spring Festival will be reduced to 296 million passengers, but it will still increase by 40.6% compared to 2020.
In order to facilitate passengers to arrange their itinerary in accordance with the epidemic prevention and control policy, Li Wenxin pointed out that the pre-sale period of tickets will be adjusted to 15 days from January 29, and the free refund period will be adjusted to 8 days accordingly.
In addition, it will also extend the ticketing service time of the railway 12306 website and the processing time of online refund services.
Focus on epidemic prevention and control in rural areas
The number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the world is increasing day by day; mutant strains have appeared in many countries such as the United Kingdom, South Africa, and clusters of epidemics have also appeared in many places in China since the beginning of winter... In the face of the severe and complex situation of the epidemic, the National Health Commission of China is sick Zhou Yuhui, deputy director of the Bureau of Public Security, predicted that China's winter and spring epidemics will spread at multiple spots, clusters in some places, and even clusters of epidemics at multiple spots at the same time may become the norm.
He pointed out that during the Spring Festival travel period, the number of overseas returnees and imported goods increased, the flow of domestic personnel and gathering activities were high, and the risk of epidemic spread may further increase.
In response to the weak links in the prevention and control of the epidemic in rural areas, he said that relevant departments are drafting relevant winter and spring epidemic prevention and control plans, and put forward more stringent and detailed requirements for personnel travel, which will be issued for approval in the near future.
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