China News Service, Beijing, February 18 (Reporter Liu Wenwen) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport of China on the 18th that data from the 2024 comprehensive transportation Spring Festival travel work class showed that from February 10 to 17 (the first to the eighth day of the first lunar month) ), the total number of cross-regional personnel movements in society totaled 2.293 billion. Among them, the railway passenger volume was 99.46 million; the highway passenger volume was 2,166.55 million; the waterway passenger volume was 9.41 million; and the civil aviation passenger volume was 17.99 million.
On February 17, passengers were passing through the ticket gate at Lianyungang Railway Station. Picture/Visual China
On February 17 (the 23rd day of Spring Festival travel and the eighth day of the first lunar month), the number of cross-regional personnel movements across society was 308.28 million, an increase of 52.4% over the same period in 2023 and an increase of 47.5% over the same period in 2019. Among them, the railway passenger volume was 16.067 million; the highway passenger volume was 288.72 million; the waterway passenger volume was 1.191 million; and the civil aviation passenger volume was 2.307 million.
On the 18th, the meteorological department issued an orange cold wave warning, predicting that central and eastern China will experience severe cooling, rain and snow. In response to this round of cold wave weather prevention and response work, the Ministry of Transport held a video dispatch meeting to conduct dispatch and deployment for the eight provinces of Xinjiang, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, and Shaanxi that are expected to be severely affected by cold wave winds.
At present, the Henan transportation department has reserved 25,600 tons of snow melting agent, pre-positioned its forces in advance, and strictly protected key road sections such as toll stations, service areas, interchange entrances and exits, both ends of long bridges and tunnels, and congestion points. Guizhou's transportation department has set up a total of 466 emergency material reserve points across the province, with more than 32,000 tons of reserve materials, 318 obstacle clearance and rescue points, and arranged 12,000 emergency support personnel and more than 2,200 emergency vehicles on duty. The remaining six provinces of Xinjiang, Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, and Shaanxi have also completed relevant prevention and response work. (over)