"There are many job opportunities in the Pearl River Delta, and I want to come to Guangzhou as soon as possible to try ...... after the Chinese New Year at home”
On February 19, the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Ms. Wang, a 23-year-old Guizhou ** person, walked out of Guangzhou South Railway Station with great expectations, and she had received interview invitations from several favorite companies.
In the huge Spring Festival tide, Ms. Wang is not alone. This year, the national railway has sent more than 300 million passengers, and the Guangzhou Railway Group has sent more than 5,122 passengers60,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 389%, which can be called the hottest Spring Festival in history.
The arrival exit of Guangzhou South Railway Station is full of people. Photo by Li Ji.
There are many changes, such as smoother and more diverse return flows, longer travel radius, and ...... more dynamic flow of rework into the Bay Area
Behind the boiling picture of the Spring Festival, in the face of the new year, people have good expectations and start again; It is the crowd of people who surging "popularity", bringing vigorous vitality to the land of southern Guangdong along the land, sea, air and railway.
It's not hard to return home. There is a high-speed train every 58 seconds."
Speed is a key word.
Ms. Guo, a Chaoshan native who works in Guangzhou, grabbed a ticket for the Guangzhou-Shantou high-speed rail this year. In the past, Guangzhou-Shenzhen and Chaoshan were connected by a Xiamen-Shenzhen railway, with a speed of only 250 kilometers per hour, and it was often "hard to find a ticket" on holidays.
Nowadays, the Guangzhou-Shantou and Shanshan high-speed railways have built a "fast road" to promote the coordinated development of the region, and the Guangzhou metropolitan area has entered the "350 era" with the Shanchaojie metropolitan area.
Also, it's frequency.
This year's Spring Festival travel demand has been greatly released, and a high-speed rail will leave here every 58 seconds during peak hours. Wang Zhigang, dispatcher of the command center of Guangzhou South Railway Station, the largest station in the country's Spring Festival, said. According to statistics, from January 26 to February 17, the average daily arrival and departure passengers of Guangzhou South Railway Station were 5220,000 person-times, of which 29 are sent per day10,000 people, with an average daily reach of 2310,000 people.
The Guangzhou Railway Spring Festival has sent more than 51 million passengers. Photo by Li Ji.
Guangzhou's pivotal transformation is a microcosm of the changes in Guangdong's and even the country's high-speed rail network.
Guangzhou Railway Station, Guangzhou South, Guangzhou East, Guangzhou North plus the newly put into operation Guangzhou Baiyun Station, Guangzhou Railway Network extends in all directions and is upgraded in scale. Guangzhou Railway Station has been upgraded and positioned as a central railway station in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. With the completion of the renovation of Guangzhou Railway Station and Guangzhou East Railway Station in the later stage, the construction process of "high-speed rail into the city" will be rapidly advanced in the future.
According to Guangzhou Railway data, up to now, the operating mileage of high-speed rail in Guangdong Province has reached 2,838 kilometers. With the opening of the Guangzhou-Shantou and Shanshan railways and the acceleration of the construction of Guangzhou-Zhanjiang railways, Guangdong is gradually moving towards the "350 era of city-to-city communication", and a fast, accessible, efficient and convenient transportation network is encompassing more and more people.
Not only to "walk", but also to "walk well".
Once, "beer, drink, mineral water, peanuts, melon seeds, eight treasure porridge......It has now become that passengers can choose and place orders for Cantonese specialties such as claypot rice and soy sauce chicken with one click on their mobile phones, and the steaming meals will be delivered to the seats after arriving at the agreed station.
During the Spring Festival, Lin Dehao, the distribution brother of Guangzhou Railway Group's Ruiwei Company EMU Catering Company, walked more than 20,000 steps a day.
Nowadays, the threshold for booking tickets is getting lower and lower, and the procedures are getting simpler and simpler.
Liu Xianri, the relevant person in charge of a company in Guangzhou, told reporters that in recent years, the company applied directly online for the Spring Festival, and successfully booked more than 40 Spring Festival train tickets for employees every year.
Migrant workers have always been one of the main forces of Guangdong Railway's Spring Festival travel. As early as December 18, 2023, the Spring Festival has not yet arrived, and Guangzhou Railway Group has begun to start the 2024 Spring Festival migrant workers' group ticket handling business. Self-organized groups of 5 or more migrant workers, or enterprises with 30 or more people can apply for group tickets for migrant workers during the Spring Festival. There is no need to go to the window of the railway station to handle the group ticket business on the spot, and it can be accepted online.
The Lantang service area on the Guanglong Expressway is equipped with a special channel for charging vehicles. Photo by Southern + reporter Zhu Hongbo.
Self-driving travel is one of the most significant features of this year, and it has also made structural changes in the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, the total traffic volume of expressways in Guangdong Province was 456730,000 trips, a year-on-year increase of 878%, accounting for about one-fifth of the national total.
Among them, more and more new energy vehicles are on the road. At the end of last year, Guangdong's first 600 kW liquid-cooled super charging station was put into operation in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City. "Seeing that there is a new supercharge here, charging for 10 minutes can meet my needs to drive all the way back to my hometown, which is much more convenient. ”
In the past, hundreds of millions of people crowded the green train, but now high-speed rail extends in all directions, and self-driving cars are pouring into the expressway. The multiple ways of returning to the hometown have further stimulated the vitality and vitality of Guangdong.
Travel is diverse. The Norwegian cable car box is full of Chinese."
This year, Chinese tourists are once again making the Spring Festival the peak season for global tourism.
According to the statistics of the Qunar platform, as China's "visa-free circle of friends" continues to expand and the travel radius of tourists expands, Chinese tourists have once again made the Spring Festival a global tourist season. During this year's Spring Festival holiday, Chinese tourists traveled to 125 countries around the world. On the Qunar platform, the increase in international air ticket bookings for the Spring Festival is as high as 14 times.
I really didn't expect that when I took the cable car, the whole box was Chinese, and I heard the familiar Cantonese. "Norway's Tromsø is the northernmost city in the world, and Ms. Yuan, who loves to watch the snow, traveled to Tromsø during the Spring Festival holiday, and unexpectedly met many Chinese people, especially Guangdong villagers, "I don't seem to be in Norway, as if I am in Guangzhou Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street." Miss Yuan quipped.
Both international and domestic tours are booming, making Baiyun Airport continue to set new single-day passenger flow records. According to the data of Feichang Zhun, Baiyun Airport ranks second in the country in terms of international flights and first in the country in terms of domestic flights.
Baiyun Airport is booming during the Spring Festival holiday. Photo by Zhong Zhihui.
"Visiting relatives + traveling" has become the hottest way to celebrate the festival this year.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Lu, a citizen of Guangzhou, made a "fly" to travel to Anyang, Henan, "I have always wanted to go to Yinxu to see, before the Spring Festival, Guangzhou-Anyang was opened, and the flight took two and a half hours, so I decided to go."
Qunar data shows that there will be no obvious travel trough during the Spring Festival holiday in 2024, and the number of air ticket bookings for travel from the second to fourth day of the Lunar New Year will increase by 60% compared with 2023.
Going to a small town to find the taste of the New Year has become a new trend.
My parents have never been to Shunde, and this year I picked them up for the New Year, just in time to go to the flower market and taste food. Ms. Zheng, who has been working in Shunde for 5 years, received her parents from Chongqing at Guangzhou South Railway Station a few years ago, and planned to take her parents to experience the New Year flavor of Guangdong.
Visit temple fairs, set off firecrackers, twist Yangge, enjoy lanterns, dragon and lion dances, and ......People all over the world celebrate the arrival of the New Year in their own way, with the north and the south, the east and the west intertwined, and more and more delicious and fun tourist destinations have been discovered.
A dragon and lion conference in Dali Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City, was crowded. Photo by Liao Mingcan.
During this year's Spring Festival, the "reverse Spring Festival" has become a craze.
Family is in**, home is in**. Tang Zihan, who is originally from Guangxi, was born in Foshan, Guangdong, and Tang Zihan's father was a member of the "motorcycle army". A year ago, Zihan's parents fulfilled their dream of buying a house and offered a three-bedroom apartment in Foshan. During the Chinese New Year this year, 12-year-old Zihan no longer had to ride back to Guangxi with his parents, and his grandparents and uncle's family were reunited in their new home in Foshan.
Guangzhou Railway data also shows that before the holiday, the arrival of passengers at major railway stations in Guangdong increased by more than 50% year-on-year, and the arrival passenger flow was mainly concentrated in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities in the Pearl River Delta.
In the Greater Bay Area, the flow of tourists within the "two-hour traffic circle" is more frequent.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, 7 passengers took the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link from Hong Kong to the Mainland30,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 64%；Travellers from the Mainland to Hong Kong170,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 13%。
I often drive to Guangdong via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and I often encounter cars with the same Hong Kong and Macao license plates on the streets of Guangdong. Mr. Huang, a Hong Kong citizen, told reporters that the charging stations around the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao interconnection hubs such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge artificial island and the new port in Hengqin and the popular scenic spots in Zhuhai are equipped with charging piles with European standard charging connectors, and they can also be searched and found through the app and applet, which makes it more convenient to travel, work and live in the Greater Bay Area.
Restaurants in line with queues, subways comparable to rush hours, crowded attractions ......"This year's Spring Festival, Guangdong is really prosperous" is the common feeling of many Cantonese people.
According to the preliminary estimate of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the province received a total of 7,606 tourists during the eight-day Spring Festival holiday90,000 person-times, an increase of 68 compared with the Spring Festival in 20234%；Achieved tourism revenue of 693600 million yuan, an increase of 160 percent compared with the Spring Festival in 20238%。
Boost your energy in spring. The beginning of the year is a wave of shopping peaks".
When the Year of the Dragon begins, spring is strong in Guangdong.
Guangdong is a major employing province, with a total of more than 43 million migrant workers in Guangdong. Behind the steady stream of people is the general trend of vigorous Guangdong's vigorous development.
At 17:13 on February 15, the D1831 train entered Guangzhou South Railway Station, and more than 600 Guizhou migrant workers walked off the platform ...... with their luggageThis is the country's first east-west labor cooperation free return to work special train.
Before and after the Spring Festival, Guangdong will carry out the 2024 "Spring Warmth in Southern Guangdong" action across the province, chartering special trains to pick up and drop off migrant workers in other places, and further unblock the channels for returning to their hometowns and work, which will last until early April.
On the way here, there was a special person to guide us in the car, and also sent us a back-to-work gift package, and the service was very warm. Mr. Luo, from Fuquan, Guizhou Province, excitedly showed the gift bag he received, "It is becoming more and more convenient to return to his hometown and work during the Spring Festival."
The high-speed rail special train picks up the migrant workers back to Guangzhou. Photo by Sun Yuanzhi.
There are also big projects that "don't close" to seize the opportunity.
During the Spring Festival this year, many major transportation projects in Guangdong, such as Shenjiang High-speed Railway, Meilong High-speed Railway, Guangzhan High-speed Railway, Qinghua Expressway, Xiongxin Expressway, Zhaoming Expressway, etc., have not been suspended.
During the Spring Festival, the weather is fine and it is the first period of construction. The plan of the Lo Dong Hang Bridge is to construct 130 meters of ballastless roadbed per day, and since the third day of the Lunar New Year, we have completed about 147 meters per day. Xia Bo, secretary of the Party branch of the 4th standard and one branch of the Meilong Railway of the 25th Bureau of China Railway, told reporters.
The Meilong high-speed railway will be ready for opening this year. During the Spring Festival, more than 1,200 builders from all over the country worked day and night on the construction site.
Meilong high-speed rail crane city river bridge. Photo by Zhou Like.
Shenzhen's Maozhou Island is also a busy scene. On February 18, the "Offshore Oil 115" FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading unit) completed all the docking projects, with the cooperation of the main trailer "Huahu" and 3 auxiliary tows, this "big country heavy weapon" has a new look, and continues to play a "ballast stone" role for the economic and social development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The New Year is off to a good start, and the beginning of the year is a wave of shopping peaks.
Under the festive atmosphere, offline express logistics companies ushered in a wave of small peaks in business volume. "We are here in the inbound express sorting area, with a daily sorting volume of about 20,000 pieces, and this time ushered in a small peak of the New Year's Festival, with a sorting capacity of more than 30,000 pieces. Jieyang Puning Zhanlong Town Yunda Express Puning East Network Delivery Team Leader Chen Haibiao told reporters.
The company I work for in Zhujiang New Town can reach Guangzhou East Railway Station in more than 10 minutes, and Hong Kong can be reached in more than 1 hour by high-speed rail. "Lin Nuoqian, a young man from Hong Kong and a partner of Guangzhou Ruizi Venture Capital Management, took his Hong Kong partners to Guangdong to see the project at the beginning of the year.
The plan of the year lies in the spring. On the first working day of the Lunar New Year, Guangdong held a high-quality development conference to sound the clarion call for the new year. At the meeting, it was revealed: Guangdong has 12.7 billion permanent residents, about 1500 million people live in Guangdong in real time.
Undoubtedly, the active "popularity" has brought vigorous vitality and prosperity. The flow of returning to the hometown, the flow of tourism, and the flow of returning to work are gathering "popularity", showing the vitality of Guangdong.
Count and read the picture of the Spring Festival.
* Surging and energetic.
According to the statistics of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation, since the Spring Festival (January 26 to February 20), Guangdong has sent a total of 8,402 passengers820,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 3172%。
Among them, the commercial passenger traffic of highways was 3969770,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 2062%。Railway passenger traffic 3297810,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 4172%。Waterway passenger traffic 440850,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 3752%。Civil aviation passenger traffic 694380,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 5761%。
Since the Spring Festival (January 26 to February 20), the cumulative traffic volume of the province's highways is about 17,570350,000 trips, a year-on-year increase of 1039%。Among them, the cumulative traffic flow out of the province is about 891550,000 trips, a year-on-year increase of 1284%；The cumulative traffic volume into the province is about 726610,000 trips, a year-on-year increase of 812%；The total traffic flow of expressways in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is about 13,286700,000 trips, a year-on-year increase of 1018%。
Written by] Southern + reporter Liu Qian.
Co-ordinator] Zhong Zhanfeng.
Author] Liu Qian.
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