The country is the people, and the people are the country. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that the Communist Party of China leads the people to fight and defend the country, and it is the people's heart that guards it. We must realize, safeguard and develop well the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people, firmly grasp the most immediate and realistic interests of the people, persist in doing our best and doing what we can, go deep among the masses and the grassroots, take more measures to benefit the people's livelihood and warm the hearts of the people, and strive to solve the problems of the people's urgency, hardship and longing.
There is more than one issue of the most direct and practical interests that the people are most concerned about, but whether they can return to their hometowns and reunite with their families smoothly during the Spring Festival is certainly one of them. There is more than one question that the people are anxious about, but whether they can buy a ticket home during the Spring Festival must also be one of them.
According to the data, on the first day of the Spring Festival in 2024, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society is expected to reach 18,93520,000 people. According to data released by the Ministry of Transport, the cross-regional flow of people across the country is expected to reach 9 billion during the Spring Festival this year. 9 billion people to 1.4 billion people, 3In a country of 500 million families, almost every person and family is involved. Therefore, the Spring Festival is by no means a trivial matter, and it should not be taken lightly.
Although the term "Spring Festival" appeared relatively late, the phenomenon of Spring Festival appeared almost at the same time as the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only reflected in the pasting of Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings, and giving out red envelopes, in addition to the external customs and activities such as the old cloth and the new, worshipping gods and ancestors, eating reunion dinners, visiting relatives and friends, etc., but also carrying the rich cultural heritage of the Chinese nation such as attaching importance to family affection, human ethics, etiquette, and harmony, and embodying the ideological beliefs, moral norms, values and cultural psychology of the Chinese nation.
The Spring Festival is a festival that symbolizes reunion. From reunion dinners, reunion nights, to family reunions, and fireside celebrations, all contain reunions. Reunion is the most joyful, the happiest reunion, the most powerful unity, from the "lights of ten thousand homes" to the "great man of the country", the Spring Festival is to enhance the strong identity of the sons and daughters of all ethnic groups with Chinese culture, and an important carrier to unite the centripetal force of the Chinese nation. Therefore, every Spring Festival, no matter where they are, people will always set off from Tiannan and Haibei, cross thousands of rivers and mountains, and go to the time of thousands of lights and family reunions. This is due to the cultural genes of the descendants of Yan and Huang that penetrate deep into the bone marrow.
The Spring Festival is related to our thousands of households and the people's better life. Therefore, some people say that if the Spring Festival appears in the United States, it must be one of the important battlegrounds for the two parties to compete for votes. For the Spring Festival, our party attaches great importance to it, and the Ministry of Transport has taken the lead in setting up a special class for comprehensive transportation Spring Festival transportation. On January 16, 2024, the State Council Information Office held a press conference, at which leaders from the Ministry of Transport, the State Railway Administration, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the State Post Bureau, the National Administration for Disease Control and Prevention, and the China Railway Group attended and answered questions from reporters. It is understood that in the Spring Festival in 2024, the passenger flow of self-driving travel will be about 7.2 billion, while the number of traditional commercial transportation, including railway, highway, civil aviation, and water transport, is expected to reach 1.8 billion, of which the civil aviation passenger volume will exceed 80 million passengers, and the national railway will send 4 passengers800 million passengers, with a daily average of about 12 million passengers. It can be seen that in terms of traditional commercial transportation, railway transportation is still the main force.
China Railway Group said that in order to do a good job in the Spring Festival transportation work, it has launched a series of measures to facilitate and benefit the people in four aspects: scientifically arranging the supply of transportation capacity, improving the travel experience of passengers, ensuring the transportation of key materials, and ensuring the safety and smoothness of the railway, and strive to achieve "safe Spring Festival, orderly Spring Festival, and warm Spring Festival".
January 16 is also the first day of the Spring Festival, and the data shows that on that day alone, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society reached 18,93520,000 person-times, 1106 railway passenger traffic in the country30,000 person-times, 175.64 million people on highways, and 58 passengers on waterways30,000 passengers, civil aviation passenger traffic 20660,000 people, and Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xi'an, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Guangzhou, Chengdu and other central cities have once again become popular destinations for the Spring Festival.
Times are changing, and the Spring Festival is changing. In 1979, China's Spring Festival transportation historically exceeded 100 million people, and "hard to find a ticket" became the focus of the Spring Festival transportation every year since then; In the Spring Festival in 2019, the national railway sent a total of 4 passenger railways0.7 billion people. In the 40 years of the Spring Festival, from the slow green train to the high-speed rail with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour; From building an outdoor waiting shelter to a spacious and comfortable waiting room; From queuing at the ticket counter all night to buying tickets to buying tickets on mobile phones, ......People's Spring Festival journeys are becoming easier and more convenient. However, the pain point of "hard to find a ticket" for the Spring Festival still exists. What is the "truth" behind this?
The pain point of "hard to find a ticket" has given birth to various "curve" home strategies. There are not only the transit of "air-rail combined transport" and "road-rail combined transport", but also the methods of "buying short to make up for the long" and "buying long and multiplying the short", and there is also a "motorcycle army" of "walking thousands of miles and riding alone". Although all kinds of "curve" homecoming strategies are no longer convenient, and there are even various safety hazards, they have disappeared in the face of the cultural belief of going home and reuniting.
The pain point of "hard to get a ticket" also makes the gathering of family and friends more difficult and precious. On the table of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, looking at the vacant tables and chairs, telling the difficulty of returning home; When you wish for a toast, you always have to say: I hope you can buy tickets for the next year, and I hope everyone can return home on Chinese New Year's Eve next year! This is the most unpretentious wish, and we cannot watch it repeated, year after year. (before the close).