In Xuwengang, vehicles lined up in an orderly manner to cross the sea.
Bowls of hot pineapple rice and reunion dumplings warm the way home.
With the sound of a whistle, at 0:00 on January 26, the "Phoenix Ridge" passenger ro-ro ship loaded with 378 passengers and 116 vehicles slowly sailed out of the No. 9 berth of Xuwen Port and headed for the new seaport on the opposite shore, opening the prelude to the Spring Festival transportation in the Qiongzhou Strait in 2024. The water is rippling, and the ferry shuttles through the Qiongzhou Strait, full of passengers' hopes for reunion and the New Year.
The Qiongzhou Strait is a strategic passage through the South China Sea, and it is also the throat of the construction and development of Hainan Free Port, more than 90% of the living materials in Hainan Province, 1 3 of the passenger flow through the Qiongzhou Strait. Zhanjiang City and Xuwen County attach great importance to the Spring Festival transportation work in the Qiongzhou Strait, start the opportunity in advance, be a good "guardian", and take multiple measures to protect the passage of the Qiongzhou Strait.
Text: Southern ** reporter Fu Xiaobing Liu Wen.
Correspondents: Ye Huali, Xie Xiaolin, Chen Yangyang, Lin Zhendi.
*All provided by respondents.
Travelers are busy crossing the sea in the south.
According to the information released by "Pearl River Shipping", it is estimated that during the Spring Festival transportation in 2024, the passenger traffic volume of the Qiongzhou Strait ro-ro passenger transport route will be about 4.21 million. The reporter learned from the Zhanjiang Municipal Transportation Bureau that it is expected that the demand for tourism during the Spring Festival is strong, and the vehicle throughput of the three ports on the north shore of the Qiongzhou Strait in 2024 will be about 1.1 million vehicles and 4.4 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of more than 10%; Among them, about 580,000 vehicles entered the island, a year-on-year increase of 10%, and about 2.25 million people entered the island, a year-on-year increase of about 13%.
On January 26, the curtain of the Spring Festival was opened, and the passenger flow in the Qiongzhou Strait increased by about 30% compared with the average daily average of the previous days. It is understood that on the first day of the Spring Festival, the Qiongzhou Strait is expected to send 260 passenger ro-ro flights and 9 passengers10,000 passengers, an increase of about 18% compared with the first day of the Spring Festival last year.
I've always been happy on the road, and I want to rest at home and talk more about my family during the winter vacation. Ms. Lin Shanshan, a Hainan native who works as a teacher in Foshan, chose the "iron-water combined transport" method this time to cross the Qiongzhou Strait in the seamless switching of trains, buses and ferries, "This experience is very good, and the overall process is very smooth." ”
In the past few days, the Xuwengang comprehensive transportation hub building has been crowded with people, people from all over the country have gathered, and they have gone to Hainan with different purposes, perhaps to return home, or to travel. Ms. Mao from Chengdu revealed that this time she mainly went to Hainan with her family to spend the winter, and traveled around the island by the way, hoping to have a good experience.
In terms of cargo transportation, the relevant person in charge of Xuwengang introduced that Xuwengang has joined hands with functional departments to arrange the priority of vehicles for "fresh agricultural products", and implement the "three priorities" and preferential policies for "fresh agricultural products" vehicles to ensure that the green channel is unimpeded.
In order to optimize the process and ensure sufficient transportation capacity, Xuwen Port implements an online full-reservation ticket purchase method, that is, vehicles that have made an online reservation for cross-sea tickets directly enter the port area from the "reserved channel" to undergo security check, collect tickets and board the ship; Vehicles without reservations must go to the "unreserved lane" to successfully book a flight online, and then enter the port from the "reserved lane" to board the ship.
Departments work together to protect safety.
Xu Wen is at the forefront of docking with the Hainan Free Trade Port. In order to ensure the safety and smoothness of the southbound passage, Xu Wen established the first county-level maritime search and rescue center in western Guangdong, relying on the smart maritime supervision platform, and effectively improving the organization, coordination and command capabilities of maritime search and rescue emergencies.
During the Spring Festival, the South China Sea Coast Patrol Law Enforcement Corps of the Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration dispatched the country's largest coast patrol ship "Haixun 09" to arrive in the waters of the Qiongzhou Strait, and carried out patrol duty work for the first time.
Zhanjiang city and county levels have respectively set up a special class for the smooth and smooth transportation of the Spring Festival transportation on the north shore of the Qiongzhou Strait in 2024, coordinating and linking the forces of multiple departments, and making every effort to do a good job in the organization, coordination and service guarantee of the comprehensive transportation Spring Festival transportation with the greatest ability, the most practical measures, the best state and the best service.
According to the experience of the suspension and detention of the Spring Festival transportation in the Qiongzhou Strait in 2023, Xuwen County will do a good job in advance of the service guarantee work such as material reserves, medical and health care, fire rescue, life security, passenger resettlement, public opinion control, and front-line command center, and strengthen emergency response work.
At the same time, the member units of the Xuwen County Spring Festival Transport Work Leading Group focused on the "two passengers and one danger" vehicles, four types of key ships, the waters of the Qiongzhou Strait, the operation of the highway network, port passenger transport and dangerous goods operations, passenger trains, postal express and other key areas to carry out in-depth safety inspections and hidden danger rectification.
On January 26, the Xuwen County Party Committee of the Youth League, together with the County Transportation Bureau and the County Emergency Bureau, held the launching ceremony of the 2024 Spring Festival "Warm Winter Action" volunteer service activity. In 2024, the volunteer service of the "Warm Winter Action" for the Spring Festival will provide guidance and consultation, ticketing assistance, civilized travel and other volunteer services for passengers arriving and returning to Xuzhou, creating a "safe, warm, smooth and convenient" Spring Festival travel atmosphere.
At the launching ceremony, Dai Huacui, a volunteer representative of the Xuwen County University Student Alliance, said: "We should give full play to our professional expertise to send warmth to the returnees in winter. "As a traffic person, we will do a good job in ensuring the smooth flow of the Spring Festival transportation in the service area of the expressway section of Xuwen County and contribute to the strength of young people." Hong Chunmiao, a representative of the Xuwen service area of the Zhanxu Expressway, said that Xuwen County is a county with temperature, and young volunteers are an important force in ensuring the smooth flow of the Spring Festival in Xuwen County.
Warmth warms the hearts of travelers.
In July last year, groups of drivers and passengers who wanted to go south to Hainan were blocked by Typhoon "Taili" and stranded in Xuwen. The Xuwen County Party Committee and the county ** opened a temporary resettlement site in Meixi Experimental School to provide free accommodation for these stranded drivers and passengers who crossed the sea and provided accommodation for them, bursting out the majestic power of gentle Xuwen.
During the Spring Festival, from Xu Wen all the way to the south, you can always see a busy figure, or the traffic police on duty, or the volunteers who are guiding the order, everyone who serves the Spring Festival is conscientious in their respective positions, and jointly writes a gentle chapter of Xu Wen.
On January 26, the Zhanjiang Branch of Guangdong Expressway *** and Zhanjiang Xuwengang *** organized youth volunteers to set up a "North and South New Year Restaurant" in the square outside the Xuwengang Toll Station, the southernmost expressway toll station in Chinese mainland, to carry out the volunteer service activity of "Youth Volunteer Red Warm Mainland South", warming the driver's way home with bowls of hot pineapple rice and reunion dumplings, and decorating the "Spring Festival Red" with "volunteer red".
Xu Wen is known as the "hometown of pineapples in China", and pineapple rice is used to entertain guests from afar during festivals or major events, carrying the good wishes of "peace", "auspiciousness" and "longevity". "Delicious! I had heard that Xu Wen pineapple was delicious, but I didn't expect it to be delicious when used for fried rice. Mr. Li, the passer-by, couldn't help but praise and thank the volunteers while tasting the pineapple fried rice that had just come out of the pot.
The exquisite presentation, sweet aroma and warm taste of pineapple rice have been recognized and praised by more and more drivers and passengers. On the way back from the Spring Festival, everyone stopped to slowly enjoy the New Year's flavor of Xu Wen's characteristics, felt the charm of the gentle Xu Wen, and let Xu Wen's "sea of pineapples" fragrance float all over the world.
During the Spring Festival, Zhanjiang Xuwengang continuously improved the "driver's home" facilities, providing rest, equipment and supply services for drivers and passengers who were tired of the journey, and creating a warm home for drivers who were "on the road". Drivers who want to rest and take a shower during long-distance driving can go to the "Driver's Home" next to the Xuwengang Vehicle Testing Center for a short rest. Zhanjiang Xuwen Port and Xuwen County Federation of Trade Unions jointly invested in the construction of the "Driver's Home", which is open to drivers across the sea free of charge around the clock, providing diversified services such as rest, boiling water, multi-entertainment, wireless network, laundry (drying), charging, shower grooming and emergency medicines.