The national railway sends more than 400 million passengers, and Spring Festival travel rush will usher in the peak of student flow.

  According to the news of China National Railway Group Co., Ltd., in 2025, one month after the start of Spring Festival travel rush (January 14th-February 14th), the national railways sent a total of 413 million passengers. On February 18th, the national railways are expected to send 10.4 million passengers, and 522 more trains are planned.

  According to Guangzhou Railway Group, on February 18th, Guangzhou Railway Group sent 1.351 million passengers and reached 1.467 million passengers. Spring Festival travel rush entered the final stage, the overall passenger flow remained stable, and short-distance trips in the province accounted for a significant proportion. By dynamically adjusting the transportation scheme of "one map per day", Guangzhou Railway Group started 3036 passenger trains, including 153 additional passenger trains, including 101 EMU trains.

  After the Lantern Festival, the railway Spring Festival travel rush ushered in a new round of return peak, and the passenger flow of Guangzhou-Shenzhen, Shantou-Guangzhou, Chongqing-Guangzhou, Fuzhou-Shenzhen and other lines was relatively hot, especially after the holiday, college students concentrated on traveling, and the student flow showed explosive growth, which is expected to reach its peak on February 22.

  This year, in Spring Festival travel rush, Hong Kong people went north to visit relatives, and their enthusiasm for traveling was high. The number of mainland visitors to Hong Kong was also active. Since Spring Festival travel rush, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway has transported 3.307 million passengers, including 1.657 million passengers from the mainland to Hong Kong, and 1.65 million passengers from Hong Kong to the mainland, with more than 210 EMU trains running every day. It is understood that the direct high-speed rail network in Hong Kong has covered 94 cities.

  In order to improve passengers’ travel experience, Shenzhen North Railway Station launched an intelligent security inspection system, which reduced the queuing time through an intelligent registration system and added an extended security inspection belt to cope with peak hours.

  Guangzhou South Railway Station pays attention to providing worry-free services for key passengers such as the old, the young, the sick, the disabled and the pregnant, unblocks online and offline booking services, and increases young volunteers in areas such as the "Chunlan" service post, the waiting area for the elderly and the waiting room for mothers and babies, and actively guides passengers to take the bus in an orderly manner.

  Guangzhou Railway Station has set up a temporary waiting area for passengers who arrive in the middle of the night and need to transfer the next day. It is equipped with convenience supermarkets and hot and cold drinking fountains to meet the waiting catering needs of passengers, and additional customer service personnel are added to ensure the peak service quality and make passengers experience better.

  The railway department suggested that if passengers forget to bring their identity documents when traveling, they can quickly apply for temporary boarding identification through the 12306App. At present, the electronic temporary boarding identification covers all stations that implement e-tickets, and can be used for selling and returning tickets at the station window, checking manual gates and gates in real-name registration system, and checking tickets in and out of the station.