China News Service, Harbin, March 6 (Zhou Xiaozhou) China Railway Harbin Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Harbin Bureau Group Company") announced on the 6th that the 40-day 2024 Railway Spring Festival Transport ended successfully, and Harbin Bureau Group Company accumulated The number of passengers transported reached 11.69 million, with an average of 292,000 passengers per day, a year-on-year increase of 3.67 million, or 45.8%, and a substantial increase in passenger volume.

The volume of cargo dispatched since the beginning of the year has reached 38.48 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%, and continues to maintain a high level.

Harbin Station staff are answering passengers’ travel needs. Photo by Yuan Yong

　　This year's Spring Festival travel rush has a strong demand for students, workers, family visits, and tourists. Harbin Bureau Group Corporation has targeted popular directions and time periods by operating night high-speed trains, reconnecting EMUs, adding temporary passengers, and adding additional vehicles to regular-speed trains. measures to increase transport capacity in a timely manner.

　　During the Spring Festival travel rush, 334 pairs of passenger trains were operated, an increase of 35 pairs year-on-year, and the maximum starting seat capacity reached 325,000 seats per day, an increase of 29.5% year-on-year.

In view of the direction of full passenger flow, we have increased the potential of transport capacity, with a total of 1,172 heavy-duty multiple trains and 10,800 additional passenger cars.

It is newly equipped with 7 sets of the "most frost-resistant" Fuxing high-cold intelligent EMUs, which are put into operation in popular directions such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, and can add more than 4,000 seats every day.

Utilizing the newly added general-speed bus body, Linke in the direction of Guangzhou Baiyun, Shanghai and Hangzhou was opened for the first time.

　　During the Spring Festival, Harbin Bureau Group Company held "Ice and Snow Concerts" at Harbin, Harbin West and other stations, and held various cultural activities such as "New Year Goods Fair" on the public welfare "Slow Train" to create a festive and peaceful festival atmosphere.

High-quality Northeastern folk custom trains and "Lindu" tourist trains will be launched to enrich passengers' travel life.

Photo by Yuan Yong at the imported coal reloading operation site at Manzhouli Station

　　Harbin Bureau Group Corporation gives full play to the backbone role of railways in the comprehensive transportation network and builds an efficient and smooth regional logistics service system.

In response to the cold wave and low temperature weather, the number of days of coal storage at Harbin Railway's 34 direct power plants has remained at more than 20 days, stabilizing at a reasonable level.

We coordinate transportation capacity arrangements and carry out the transportation of key materials for the national economy and people's livelihood, such as coal, agricultural supplies, agricultural side products, and food, and implement precise supply guarantees and priority transportation, with an average of nearly 10,000 vehicles loaded every day.

The traffic volume at Manzhouli, Suifenhe and Tongjiang railway ports achieved double growth year-on-year, effectively ensuring the stability of the international industrial chain and supply chain.

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