China News Service Nanjing, February 4 (Reporter Zhu Xiaoying) The New Year of the Dragon is approaching, and the Yangtze River Delta has strengthened its water, land and air capacity to cope with the large passenger flow during the Spring Festival holiday.
The Yangtze River Delta region has a large number of migrant workers, college students, and transit personnel, and has always been a high-density passenger flow interweaving zone during the Spring Festival. During this year's Spring Festival 8-day holiday, the public has a strong willingness to travel. Residents in the Yangtze River Delta have a strong demand for returning to their hometowns for the New Year, visiting relatives and friends, and traveling.
Dong Yong, deputy director of the operation command center of Nanjing Lukou International Airport of the Eastern Airport Group, told China News Service that during this year's Spring Festival holiday, "visiting relatives + tourism" will become a popular travel mode, and ice and snow tourism in the north and warm winter tourism in the south are heating up. Judging from the current air ticket booking situation, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Chongqing are the main passenger destinations in China, and the passenger flow of routes in Hainan, Northeast and other directions has soared, for which the airport has encrypted 13 routes to Harbin, Yanji and other places. International, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan routes are running smoothly, and the airport has encrypted flights to Nagoya, Tokyo and other places.
The Yangtze River Delta railway department is expected to send 89 million passengers during the Spring Festival this year, with an average of 222 passengers per day50,000 passengers, an increase of 187%, or a record high. The Yangtze River Delta railway department plans to increase the number of passenger trains on the basis of the peak operation map5 pairs, focusing on the Northeast China, Changsha, Nanchang and other popular directions to supplement transportation capacity, and actively respond to the large flow of travel.
According to the Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, during this year's Spring Festival, Jiangsu ranked first in the country in terms of inter-provincial travel popularity and third in the country in terms of inter-provincial travel high-popularity destination provinces. The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation held a press conference in Nanjing on the 4th, predicting that the total number of trips in the province during the Spring Festival holiday this year may hit a record high, and the number of road and waterway trips will reach 5.3 million to 5.6 million, a year-on-year increase of 13% to 19%, and the number of civil aviation passengers will reach 64970,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 29%. To this end, the transportation department has dispatched and enhanced transportation capacity resources in terms of highways, railways, civil aviation passenger transport and waterway travel. (ENDS).