China News Service, March 8 (Xinhua) On the morning of March 8, the second "Ministerial Channel" of the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress was held in the Great Hall of the People. Li Xiaopeng, Minister of Transport, was interviewed.
Li Xiaopeng introduced that this year’s Spring Festival travel season started on January 26 and ended on March 5, lasting 40 days.
Different from previous years, this year’s Spring Festival transportation has the following characteristics:
The first feature is that the flow of people hit a record high for the same period.
The total number of cross-regional personnel movements across society in 40 days reached 8.42 billion, an increase of 9.8% over the same period last year and an increase of 7.1% over the same period in 2019 before the epidemic. This number is a record high in the same period.
The second feature is that self-driving travel has become the mainstay of travel.
The number of self-driving trips in 40 days reached 6.7 billion, accounting for about 80% of the total trips.
About 20% of passengers travel by train, car, plane, or ship, which is what we call commercial passenger traffic in professional terms.
The third feature is active response to severe weather.
During the eight-day Spring Festival holiday during the Spring Festival, the weather was generally good and conducive to travel. However, before and after the Spring Festival, we encountered two rounds of bad weather such as rain, snow, freezing temperatures, and cold waves. The two rounds combined lasted 20 days, which brought travel difficulties to people in some areas. inconvenient.
With everyone's joint efforts, travel overall remained stable.
The fourth feature is that passenger flow and logistics are basically smooth.
The people have a better travel experience, and the major logistics channels and microcirculations have remained smooth, achieving a safe, convenient and warm Spring Festival travel overall.
Through the 40 days of Spring Festival travel, it has been beneficial to demonstrate a China with efficient movement of people and goods, full of vitality and vitality.