A total of 2.293 billion people moved across regions in China during the Spring Festival holiday. 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.

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.