China News Service, January 28. Wu Chungeng, spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport, said on the 28th that this year’s Spring Festival transportation is quite special. The general judgment is that the passenger flow of this year’s Spring Festival transportation will be significantly reduced.
The latest estimated data is: the total number of passengers sent during the Spring Festival travel period nationwide is about 1.152 billion, which is about 28.8 million per day. This amount is down by more than 60% from 2019 and more than 20% from 2020.
On January 28, at Wuhan Tianhe Airport, passengers left the station after scanning the code.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Chang
On the 28th, the Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference in January.
At the meeting, a reporter asked: The 2021 Spring Festival Transport will officially start today.
There is actually a contradiction between the requirements of epidemic prevention and control and the movement of people during the Spring Festival.
How will we ensure that "the epidemic will not spread due to the Spring Festival travel season"?
"Today is the first day of the Spring Festival Transport. All work is progressing smoothly and orderly. Everyone is very concerned." Wu Chungeng said that this year's Spring Festival Transport is relatively special, the situation is more complicated, and the situation is constantly changing. The Ministry of Transport continues to strengthen Relevant analysis and judgment of passenger traffic during the Spring Festival, and constantly optimize the forecast results.
The general judgment is that the passenger flow of the Spring Festival this year will be significantly reduced.
The latest estimated data is: the total number of passengers sent during the Spring Festival travel period nationwide is about 1.152 billion, which is about 28.8 million per day. This amount is down by more than 60% from 2019 and more than 20% from 2020.
"This data is constantly changing. For example, judging from the actual situation on the 24th to the 26th in the past three days, there has been a certain increase every day. At present, the average number of passengers in these three days is 18 million to 19 million. At this scale, it is expected that the actual number of people will be slightly lower than the estimated number after the Spring Festival Transport begins, and it may be further reduced with the promotion of the local New Year policy." Wu Chungeng said.
Wu Chungeng pointed out that in order to do a good job in the Spring Festival travel and epidemic prevention and control work, in accordance with the decision and deployment of the State Council, the Ministry of Transport has established a special class for Spring Festival travel under the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism. The Ministry of Transport and the National Development and Reform Commission, the Health Commission, and the Ministry of Public Security Wait for 15 departments to work together.
Share information in a timely manner, discuss and judge changes in the situation of epidemic prevention and control during the Spring Festival Transport, and study and formulate prevention and control strategies for the Spring Festival Transport epidemic. Currently, the Spring Festival Transport Special Class has issued the "General Work Plan for Comprehensive Transportation Epidemic Prevention and Control 2021".
In the next step, the Ministry of Transport will focus on the "three characters" to do a good job to ensure that "the epidemic will not spread due to the Spring Festival travel season."
The first is to promote the word "minus" to reduce the flow of people and reduce the time in transit.
The Ministry of Transport will actively respond to the "New Year's Day" initiative and guide everyone to celebrate the New Year's Day on the spot to reduce the total number of trips.
At the same time, it also instructs localities to improve the transportation organization plan in accordance with the characteristics of the main passenger flow such as local labor flow, student flow, and tourist flow, and in accordance with the relevant policy requirements of the local government to celebrate the new year on the spot, returning to the hometown and returning to work, avoiding the peak to start school, and booking limited reception tours , Optimize the allocation of transportation capacity, strengthen the deployment and emergency dispatch of passenger transportation places, tourist attractions, rural areas and other transportation capacity, improve the capacity of dispersing, reduce the scattered flow of passengers, reduce concentrated gathering, and reduce the transit time.
The second is to highlight the word "prevention" and strictly prevent and control the transportation epidemic.
On the one hand, research and formulate epidemic classification response plans to improve passenger transportation epidemic prevention and control standards.
Comprehensive and strict implementation of prevention and control measures such as passenger temperature measurement, health code inspection, wearing masks throughout the process, "one-meter line", and controlling passenger load rate.
Actively promote “contactless” services such as face recognition, swiping verification, and e-tickets to reduce personnel gathering and cross-contact infection.
Increase the frequency of ventilation and disinfection of passenger terminals and transportation vehicles, strengthen environmental management and epidemic prevention and control of key places such as restaurants in expressway service areas, and regularly disinfect the CPC card that is the pass card that everyone gets on the expressway.
Strictly implement the circuit breaker measures for international passenger flights.
On the other hand, strict import cold chain logistics and epidemic prevention and control of immigrants.
Supervise and guide enterprises engaged in imported cold-chain logistics and imported high-risk non-cold-chain container transportation to strictly implement relevant regulations on protection of employees and disinfection of transportation vehicles.
Continue to implement the general requirements of "cargo opening and passenger clearance" for road and water transportation ports, and strictly implement the prevention and control measures and closed-loop management of entry personnel.
The third is to do a good job in the word "guarantee" and optimize transportation services to ensure the smooth flow of the road network.
Under the premise of strictly implementing epidemic prevention and control measures, the Ministry of Transport will further improve transportation service guarantees, optimize road network operation services, and do a good job in response to emergencies and other related work.
The "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemics in Highway Service Areas and Toll Stations" were issued, clearly stating that during the Spring Festival transport period, except for the need for epidemic prevention and control or other conditions that must be shut down, highway service areas and toll stations should remain open for normal operation. It is not allowed to close without authorization.
It has also established and improved the three-level coordinated dispatch mechanism of the provincial station of the road network dispatching department, strengthened the monitoring and analysis of road network operation, and made every effort to remove congestion and smoothness, and improve the efficiency of vehicle traffic.