Jingzhou News Network Comment (Special Commentator Zheng Xiaoman) On January 26, the "Spring Festival" officially kicked off. According to CCTV***, the 2024 "Spring Festival" will last for 40 days, and it is expected that 9 billion people will move on the land of China, of which 7.2 billion will travel by car, which will hit a record high. "In every street and alley, in everyone's mouth, the first sentence of meeting is congratulations ......Recently, major supermarkets have put up New Year's songs, red lanterns have been hung on the roadside, the New Year's flavor is getting stronger and more urging people to return, and the overture of the Spring Festival has officially played.
The term "Spring Festival" first appeared in 1980 in the "People's **", and its formation originated from China's unique national conditions and festival history. The uneven development of some regions attracts a large number of laborers to go to the southeast coast, first-tier provincial capitals and other economically developed cities every year to work and study. After a year of wandering and busyness, in the "Spring Festival", the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the consciousness of "reunion" and "homesickness" deeply buried in the heart of the Chinese were activated.
"Returning Home for the New Year" is a migration about family affection and a journey to reunion. As the "world's largest periodic population migration", how to ensure the smooth operation of the "Spring Festival" and make each "wanderer" go home safely, smoothly and happily is not only a test for the transportation sector, but also a review of the level of public services in various places.
On January 16, the ** Information Office held a press conference on the situation and work arrangements for the 2024 Spring Festival. At the meeting, it was mentioned that the Ministry of Transport will work with multiple departments to carry out the "Love Full Journey" activity with the theme of "Safe Spring Festival" to create "Safe Spring Festival, Convenient Spring Festival, and Warm Spring Festival".
Take multiple measures at the same time to escort a safe Spring Festival". There are thousands of roads, and safety is the first. In this year's Spring Festival, the characteristics of inter-provincial travel are more prominent, and the flow of workers, relatives, students, tourists, and goods is superimposed, and the task of transportation service guarantee is more onerous. How to do a good job in transportation safety and security and protect the people's way home has become the top priority of the "Spring Festival" work. On January 12, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Emergency Management and other departments jointly issued the "2024 Comprehensive Transportation Spring Festival Service Guarantee and Safety Production Overall Plan", which will unblock the "main artery" of the transportation network and make every effort to ensure the safe travel of the people by strengthening passenger flow research and judgment, carrying out operation monitoring, scientific dispatching and command, rapid emergency response, and equipment maintenance.
With heart and affection, to create a convenient Spring Festival". The railway department has optimized and improved the "12306" system, launched a new way to purchase tickets, provided pre-filling of ticket purchase information, reminder subscription of starting sales, provided special area reservation and ticket purchase services for students and migrant workers, and optimized the ticket refund and change function, so as to make the ticketing experience better. The civil aviation department "escorts with affection", optimizes flight arrangements and air traffic control, pays attention to key groups, and provides scheduled services for the elderly, the disabled, children and other passengers, so that they can travel conveniently; The Ministry of Transport launched the "e-road smooth" applet to realize "charging pile check" and "one-click call for help"; The highway management department has added mobile toilets, convenient service stations and other support facilities in key service areas and national highway transportation hubs, so that the masses have no worries about their journey.
There is no trivial matter in people's livelihood, and the branches and leaves are always related. To answer the people's livelihood examination papers for the 2024 Spring Festival, it not only requires the concerted cooperation of transportation, public security, local ** and other departments, but also needs to unite the strength of society, enterprises and all passengers, so that the people of the world can return home safely and let the lights of thousands of homes be warm and bright.