As the pace of the New Year approaches, the annual national Spring Festival travel rush has begun. January 14 is the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush. Data from the 2025 Comprehensive Transportation Spring Festival travel rush work team shows that the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society is expected to exceed 170 million. This year's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush is expected to reach 9 billion people across the society. Such "the world's largest population mobility" is not only a major test of the national transportation system, but also a test of our social governance coordination capabilities.

On the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush, Chenyang Station (photo provided by Chenyang Railway issued by China Radio International)

To ensure that the people of the whole country go home for the New Year with peace of mind and comfort, it is necessary to form a joint force between the two parties to jointly respond to the challenges of the Spring Festival travel rush. The main body of the Spring Festival travel rush is self-driving personnel. It is estimated that self-driving travel will reach 7.2 billion, accounting for 80% of the turnover. Flexible, free and convenient self-driving travel methods have become people's first choice. How to ensure the charging service of new energy vehicles has put forward higher requirements for all parties. Relevant departments and enterprises should use big data to predict needs, reasonably arrange the addition of fast charging and high-power charging piles, and share charging information in real time to guide car owners to charge staggered peaks, strengthen supporting power grids, and provide good luck and maintenance guarantees, so that new energy vehicle owners can travel with confidence and return home smoothly.

Adequate transportation capacity guarantee is the top priority during the Spring Festival travel journey. The transportation department should strengthen the analysis of passenger flow demand, scientifically formulate transportation plans, and optimize capacity allocation, such as precise railway map adjustment and in-depth exploration of transportation potential, highways provide "bottom-up" guarantee, and waterways increase capacity deployment, etc., and "take multiple measures" to facilitate passengers' "going home" during the Spring Festival travel rush.

(Travelers at Haikou Meilan International Airport in Hainan)

When traveling through the Spring Festival travel, safety is the fastest way home. Relevant departments should comprehensively check safety hazards, prepare to prevent bad weather, and ensure the safety and reliability of railways, civil aviation, highways and other transportation facilities. Highway congestion during the Spring Festival travel rush is not uncommon. For example, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, people visit relatives and friends to greet New Year on this day. The national expressways usher in a small peak of congestion. Relevant departments need to timely release relevant service information to remind passengers to travel staggered peaks, strengthen road congestion and smooth work, and strive to create a safer and more orderly traffic environment for people traveling by themselves.

On the Spring Festival travel journey, considerate service makes the journey home warmer. Continuously improve the service level during the Spring Festival travel rush and focus on details, such as ensuring the travel of key passengers for the elderly, the children, the disabled and the pregnant, facilitating intelligent travel for the elderly, providing accurate and detailed transportation information services, etc., so that the on-the-go service categories are richer and more considerate, and strive to provide warm and thoughtful services to the majority of passengers.

The Spring Festival travel rush is a "great migration" that concerns the reunion and happiness of hundreds of millions of families, and is also an important window to demonstrate my country's social governance capabilities and convenient service level. To deal with the "big test" of the Spring Festival travel rush, all parties need to work together and do their best to build a safe and smooth way home, so that every wanderer can go home comfortably and smoothly. (China Radio International Special Commentator Hesheng)