CCTV News:There is still half a month before New Year’s Eve. Have you got a ticket to go home? On January 14th, 2025, Spring Festival travel rush will be opened. According to the forecast of the Ministry of Transport, in the 40 days from January 14th to February 22nd, the cross-regional mobility of the whole society will reach 9 billion person-times. What information do you need to know about Spring Festival travel rush? What new service guarantee measures are there in various places? Let’s get to know each other
New Year’s Eve train tickets are on sale on the 14th.
Let’s look at railways first. In Spring Festival travel rush this year, the number of passengers sent by railways nationwide is expected to exceed 510 million, with an average of 12.75 million passengers per day, an increase of 5.5% compared with Spring Festival travel rush last year. Friends who are going home on New Year’s Eve should pay attention to the fact that train tickets for New Year’s Eve will be sold on the 14th.
The reporter learned from the Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center that since Spring Festival travel rush tickets were sold on December 31, 2024, by 16: 00 on the 13th, a total of 90.69 million tickets had been sold during Spring Festival travel rush. In addition, according to the data of 12306 pre-sale tickets and alternate ticket purchases, the railway department will increase the delivery of transportation resources in hot directions and time periods where conditions permit.
The first starting train in Spring Festival travel rush, Beijing, started in the early morning of the 14th.
In the early morning of January 14th, the first Spring Festival travel rush train was launched in Beijing.
The K4159 train from Beijing West to Hefei is the first Spring Festival travel rush train in Beijing this year. The ordinary speed train K4159 carries nearly 500 passengers and will arrive in Hefei in 12 hours.
In Spring Festival travel rush this year, the Beijing Bureau of China Railway covering Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei is expected to send 39.37 million passengers. In order to facilitate passengers’ travel, all stations provide night waiting service to ensure that passengers arriving in bad weather and at night and early morning have comfortable waiting conditions. More than 100 convenience lockers have been set up at the entrance security instruments of 22 stations, such as Beijing Railway Station and Beijing West Railway Station, to facilitate passengers to mail items that do not meet the requirements for taking the train quickly.
In addition, for passengers who take the Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed train and move to sleep, the ticket window, waiting room and platform will be strengthened, and passengers going to Hong Kong West Kowloon will bring valid entry and exit documents.
During Spring Festival travel rush, the railway department will increase the capacity in time according to the passenger flow. 220 pairs of passenger trains will be added during the peak period of passenger travel, mainly in Beijing to Harbin, Shenyang, Changchun, Taiyuan, Datong, Hohhot, Qingdao, Shijiazhuang, Baoding and Zhangjiakou. According to the pre-sale of tickets, the capacity will be supplemented by steps.
Lanzhou Bureau of China Railway expects Spring Festival travel rush to send passengers to break 10 million for the first time.
Lanzhou Bureau of China Railway expects to send 10.4 million passengers during Spring Festival travel rush this year, an increase of 5.1% compared with 2024, with an average of 260,000 passengers per day. This is the first time that Spring Festival travel rush, Lanzhou Bureau of China Railway, expects to send more than 10 million passengers.
In order to better ensure the work in Spring Festival travel rush, the station has launched special services such as "emergency help" and "waiting for mother and baby".
During the Spring Festival travel rush in 2025, the passenger flow within the jurisdiction of the Lanzhou Bureau of the State Railway was mainly based on college students returning home and returning passengers from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, Sichuan and Chongqing before the festival; After the holiday, college students return to school and migrant workers from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Urumqi are the main ones. In order to ensure the smooth flow of Spring Festival travel rush, 17 pairs of temporary passenger trains will be added to the railway, including 8 pairs of general-speed temporary passenger trains and 9 pairs of EMU temporary passenger trains.
During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the average daily traffic of expressways was about 38.5 million vehicles.
On the highway side, on the 13th, the Road Network Monitoring and Emergency Disposal Center of the Ministry of Transport released the Judgment on the Operation of National Highway Network in Spring Festival travel rush in 2025. It is estimated that during the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the average daily traffic of expressways in China will be about 38.5 million, which is about 0.5% higher than that of Spring Festival travel rush in 2024. The peak traffic in Spring Festival travel rush is expected to appear on the penultimate day of the Spring Festival holiday, that is, the sixth day of the first month on February 3rd.
During Spring Festival travel rush, self-driving of passenger cars became the mainstream.
During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, there were many family trips back home, and self-driving of passenger cars became the mainstream, accounting for more than 98% of passenger cars, among which new energy vehicles continued to grow. It is estimated that the traffic volume of new energy vehicles will account for about 19% of the total traffic volume during Spring Festival travel rush, which is a significant increase compared with the same period in 2024.
In addition, during the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the flow of people showed tidal characteristics. Before the holiday, megacities and provincial capitals mainly migrated to neighboring cities and major labor exporting provinces and cities, and after the holiday, the flow was reversed.
The national road network operation changes are divided into three stages: the band fluctuates in the early and late stages, and it is low before and then high during the Spring Festival.
The Research on the Operation of National Highway Network in Spring Festival travel rush in 2025 points out that during the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the operation change of national highway network is divided into three stages, which generally presents the characteristics of "band fluctuation in the early and late stages, low before and high after the Spring Festival".
The first stage, from January 14th to January 27th, is the early stage of Spring Festival travel rush. Before January 23rd (the 24th of the twelfth lunar month), the traffic on the road network was mainly composed of student flow, work flow and freight flow. On January 19th, around the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, the first wave of small peaks of returning home appeared. On January 26th, around the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, there was a second wave of small peak of returning home. After that, the return flow of enterprises and institutions increased, the proportion of trucks decreased day by day, and the inter-provincial traffic decreased compared with the previous stage.
The second stage is the Spring Festival holiday. From January 28th to February 4th, the traffic volume of the road network reached a holiday low point on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the first month. On January 30th, the traffic volume of the road network gradually picked up from the second day of the first month, and on February 3rd, the sixth day of the first month, the traffic volume returned to Spring Festival travel rush.
The third stage is the late Spring Festival travel rush, from February 5 to February 22. On February 5, from the eighth day of the first month, the traffic quickly fell back to the daily level. On February 13th, the second peak of return traffic appeared around the 16th day of the first month, and then ended in Spring Festival travel rush, where the traffic changed slowly and gradually returned to normal.
Tianjin: Spring Festival travel rush on the water is busy expecting more than 9,000 sub-ships to enter and leave the port.
The reporter learned from the Tianjin Maritime Department that during the Spring Festival travel rush this year, the water traffic flow in Tianjin’s jurisdiction will reach a peak. It is estimated that there will be more than 9,000 ships entering and leaving Tianjin Port, with a cargo throughput of about 48 million tons and a container throughput of about 2.1 million TEUs. The total number of passengers transported by international cruise ships, Haihe ferry boats and tourist boats is expected to reach 87,000. To this end, the Tianjin Maritime Department has coordinated 156 ships and 4 aircraft in the jurisdiction to maintain an emergency state to ensure a safe and orderly water traffic environment.