On January 15, Liu He, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, inspected the Spring Festival transportation in Beijing. He stressed that the Spring Festival transportation is related to the vital interests of the broad masses of the people and is the opening test of the transportation system. Transportation departments and transportation enterprises at all levels should earnestly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, do a good job in the prevention and control of Spring Festival transportation epidemic, earnestly strengthen safety production and emergency management, strive to optimize travel services, ensure the health and safety of passengers, and ensure the smooth holding of Beijing Winter Olympic Games and winter Paralympic Games.
The 2022 Spring Festival transportation starts on January 17 and ends on February 25, lasting for 40 days. The Ministry of communications estimates that this year’s Spring Festival transportation will send 1.18 billion passengers nationwide, with an average of 29.5 million passengers per day, an increase of 35.6% over 2021, a decrease of 20.3% over 2020 and a decrease of 60.4% over 2019. The southwest of Sichuan and Chongqing has become the main destination for Spring Festival passengers. Affected by the Winter Olympic ice and snow heat, the travel demand in Northeast China has increased significantly.
Facing the dual challenges of the import of delta and Omicron strains, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council recently held a press conference on epidemic prevention during the Spring Festival. Zhu Wenzhong, deputy director of the passenger transport department of the State Railway Group, and Han Guangzu, director of the Flight Standards Department of the Civil Aviation Administration, both said that while fully arranging the transport capacity, they should strictly implement the prevention and control measures, improve the emergency plan, and resolutely implement the general strategy of “external defense input and internal defense rebound”. “Do a good job in ‘control’ and ‘communication’, and never achieve the effect of epidemic prevention by means of one size fits all and layers of overweight.” Zhou Min, deputy director of the emergency office of the Ministry of transport, stressed.
transport capacity is more allocated on demand
On January 18, the reporter learned from the special class of Spring Festival transportation under the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council that on the second day of the Spring Festival transportation, 25.305 million passengers are expected to be sent across the country. Among them, the railway is expected to send 5.15 million passengers, 19 million by road, 355000 by waterway and 800000 by civil aviation. The estimated flow of expressways in China is 28.4741 million.
In order to meet the passenger transport demand of hot areas and hot routes during the Spring Festival transportation, the Civil Aviation Administration encourages airlines to flexibly allocate transport capacity, make overall arrangements for overtime and temporary flights. As of January 15, nearly 600000 scheduled passenger flights in China have been arranged during the Spring Festival transportation. On this basis, more than 20000 overtime flights on Chinese routes have been approved. Many airlines plan to increase the delivery of transport capacity in key areas of Spring Festival transportation and allocate wide body aircraft to fly on popular routes.
China Southern Airlines Group is expected to carry out about 110000 Spring Festival flights, with an average daily flight volume of more than 2700 and an increase of about 11023 flights, mainly covering the directions from Guangzhou and Shenzhen to the southwest and central China and northeast to Hainan. Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) it is planned to implement 15000 flights and invest all 88 aircraft to strengthen the transportation capacity of major hubs such as Shanghai and Nanjing. According to the existing reservation data, in the first week of the Spring Festival transportation, Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) the number of passengers sent at Shanghai Hongqiao and Pudong airports increased by 30% year-on-year, and the number of passengers sent in Nanjing increased by nearly 40% year-on-year. China Eastern Airlines will increase its transportation capacity in hot spring transportation areas such as East China, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay area, Hainan, southwest and northeast, with special attention to Hainan, South China and Yunnan. Among them, it is planned to increase investment in Boao market in Hainan and 1436 flights in Yunnan and South China, mainly involving Guangzhou Qingdao, Kunming Chengdu Tianfu, Shanghai Pudong Beihai and other routes. Air China will increase flights from the west to South China and invest in traditional Spring Festival hot routes such as northeast and West.
The 21st Century Business Herald reporter noted that China Railway Group did not predict the scale of Railway Spring Festival transportation this year as in previous years. Zhu Wenzhong said that the basic travel needs of Railway Spring Festival transportation students, migrant workers and family visits still maintain a certain scale. However, due to the impact of the epidemic and the guidance of local prevention and control policies, there are great uncertainties and changes in passenger travel. Therefore, China Railway Group will dynamically arrange trains according to passenger flow changes in accordance with the principle of “appropriate arrangement, emergency preparedness, accurate matching and echelon delivery”. “On the whole, the maximum daily seat supply capacity of the Spring Festival transportation can reach about 10.5 million, an increase of 10% over 2019.” Zhu Wenzhong said.
A person from the state railway group who asked not to be named explained to reporters that the current epidemic prevention policies and ticket booking data feedback from various places may change the passenger volume of this year’s Spring Festival transportation at any time in response to the epidemic situation. As long as the peak capacity is properly guaranteed, the “one map a day” needs to be implemented more accurately according to the changes of passenger flow and ticket pre-sale, and the delivery of capacity and passenger train operation are dynamically arranged to fully meet the dual needs of passenger travel and epidemic prevention and control. If there is an epidemic in some areas, the transportation organization will be adjusted quickly, and the passenger trains in epidemic areas will be stopped or reduced to reduce the flow of personnel.
In fact, not only will railways and civil aviation strengthen on-demand arrangement this year, but also the optimization of passenger transport allocation of roads and ferries is also a key issue to be solved by the transportation department. The Ministry of Communications said that it will scientifically arrange the shift plan, increase the transportation capacity investment and emergency dispatching in key areas such as passenger hub stations, parks and scenic spots, actively develop flexible and small batch bus passenger transport customized services, strengthen the connection between trunk transportation and urban transportation, and organize the joint transportation of passengers, especially the distribution of passengers arriving at night to avoid passenger detention, Effectively meet people’s travel needs.
a number of emergency measures were fully implemented
Recently, the national epidemic prevention situation is grim, and there is great pressure on safety and emergency support. How to implement precise traffic control measures without affecting people’s return home for the new year and travel is a major challenge.
Zhou Min said that during the Spring Festival transportation, some scientific and accurate transportation control measures will be taken. In case of a local outbreak of the epidemic, on the one hand, it will decisively cut off the inter provincial and inter city road passenger transport services. Inter provincial and inter city road passenger buses and charters in medium and high-risk areas, as well as cross city passenger transport services such as buses, cruising taxis, online taxi hailing and hitchhiking will be suspended. Secondly, strengthen the epidemic prevention management of urban passenger transport. Reduce the risk of epidemic spread through station rejection, detour and interval operation. In addition, epidemic prevention checkpoints will be set up scientifically to strictly implement the requirements for prevention and control of key links. Including disinfection and ventilation of transportation tools and working environment, physical isolation of driving area and passenger area for vehicles closely connected with personnel transfer and nucleic acid sampling transfer, provision of protective articles for drivers and passengers, timely replacement of a full set of protective articles after transfer, and strict disinfection of vehicles, etc.
The civil aviation department requires airlines to closely track the epidemic situation in some parts of China, cooperate with the prevention and control requirements, do a good job in ticket refund and reform services, and strengthen the docking and cooperation between airports and local spring festival transportation institutions to ensure the smooth connection of arrival and departure passengers. At the same time, improve the passenger service under abnormal flight conditions.
In addition to strictly implementing the prevention and control work such as ventilation and killing, strengthening passenger health monitoring and preparing the on-board emergency medical event disposal plan, Air China advocates “paperless” and “contactless” travel services, and effectively reduces the gathering of regional personnel through self-service check-in, self-service baggage check-in, snake array, opening counters in advance and other measures. On the one hand, China Eastern Airlines should prevent everything, and all staff should wear masks, gloves, goggles and other protective articles; On the other hand, check the health code, nucleic acid certificate and other information of passengers before boarding. Focusing on the travel problems of transit passengers, the transit business support platform will be used to strengthen the linkage and communication with the departure station, issue epidemic policy tips every day, and work together with the departure station to check passengers’ certificates, nucleic acids and health codes.
Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) in order to further improve passengers’ confidence in taking Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) to travel, covid-19 vaccine has been strengthened to provide full coverage of immunization.
Zhu Wenzhong said that once there are epidemic related passengers on the train, they will be immediately arranged at the isolation seat of the train for isolation observation and wear N95 masks. And immediately report to the local prevention and control department, arrange the passengers involved to get off at the station ahead and transfer them to the local prevention and control department. The environment of infected passengers will also be closed to control the flow of personnel. In addition, the passenger information of the carriage where the epidemic passengers are located is pushed to the national epidemic prevention and control management platform to assist the local prevention and control departments to take relevant control measures. Finally, the environment of infected passengers will be disinfected.
Railway officials also said that they would increase the number of self-service equipment in the station. It is recommended to use the Internet to order meals, train wechat to order meals, and deliver meals to the seats in the carriage. By vigorously promoting contactless self-service, minimize the risk of epidemic cross infection and create a healthy travel environment.
In addition, in combination with the characteristics of frequent low-temperature rain, snow and freezing weather during the Spring Festival transportation, all airlines have formulated work plans and emergency plans in advance. For example, Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) in the ground support link, the investigation of personnel, materials, equipment and emergency plans during the Spring Festival transportation shall be completed in advance, the 24-hour customer service hotline scheduling of seat personnel shall be encrypted in advance, and the remote personnel support function in different places shall be launched simultaneously, so as to prepare the traffic resources for the possible centralized passenger telephone business.
While the government and enterprises strengthen prevention and control measures, people pay more attention to safety when traveling under the epidemic. Ctrip data show that as of 12 noon on January 17, the demand for car rental travel continued the hot trend of last year. Many users advance the time of car rental and order, so as to ensure the travel during the Spring Festival. It can be seen from the data that the car rental orders for booking cars during the Spring Festival increased by more than 50% year-on-year more than 2 weeks in advance. Sanya, Haikou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou are popular cities for car rental.
smooth freight transportation
While ensuring passenger transport, the smoothness of freight transport is also very important. “Take multiple measures to ensure smooth material transportation, ensure the transportation of production and living materials, and ensure the stability of production and living order.” Zhou Min said that the Ministry of communications will ensure smooth transportation of emergency materials. Recently, in some places, there have been cases of persuading lorries to return without reason and putting forward isolation requirements for lorry drivers without reason. These cases have been coordinated by the Ministry of communications and basically solved properly. He stressed that epidemic prevention traffic control must not be simplified and one size fits all. It is strictly prohibited to set epidemic prevention and control checkpoints on the main lines of expressways at the provincial boundary. Counties and villages shall not block or isolate expressways, national and provincial trunk lines and rural roads without authorization. “It should be implemented at all levels, not overweight at all levels. It can not affect the transportation of all kinds of key materials and the lives of the people.” Zhou Min said that the Ministry of communications will also ensure smooth port transportation.
According to the relevant person in charge of China Railway Group, during the Spring Festival transportation, the railway department will coordinate the supply of freight capacity, continue to strengthen the transportation of key materials related to the national economy and the people’s livelihood, such as coal for power generation and heating, northeast grain, spring ploughing fertilizer and Festival materials, make every effort to ensure the transportation of epidemic prevention materials, and strive to ensure that the national railway loads more than 170000 vehicles per day, Ensure that the coal storage days of 363 direct power supply plants in China remain more than 15 days, so as to ensure the warm winter of the people and the smooth operation of the national economy.
The new year is approaching, more new year goods are flying from overseas, and the air transportation market continues to prosper. On January 13, the daily cargo volume of China Southern Airlines Guangzhou cargo station exceeded 500 tons. Up to now, China Southern Airlines logistics Dalian Branch has collected and transported nearly 90 tons of fresh strawberries, and Shenyang Branch has transported nearly 20 tons of Fuxin adult chicken and duck products. In addition to China’s regular new year products, flowers, lobster, salmon and chelizi are all popular goods for air transportation in the near future. From January 1 to 9, China Southern Airlines Logistics Shanghai cargo flights carried 3039 tons of goods, a year-on-year increase of 56.4%.
On January 11, a charter plane of China Eastern Airlines loaded with imported pine nuts from Afghanistan landed at Pudong airport. There were 1405 pine nuts on board, more than 45 tons. The person in charge of Eastern Air Logistics Co.Ltd(601156) said that pine nuts are the characteristic Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) of Afghanistan. Now a large number of Afghan pine nuts are transported to Shanghai through the “pine air corridor”, driving the Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) trade between China and Afghanistan. It is reported that since 2021, Eastern Air Logistics Co.Ltd(601156) has guaranteed 29 charter flights of Afghan pine nuts, about 1350 tons.
In addition, due to the difficulty of going out, people are more keen to place orders online to buy new year goods and give gifts during the festival, so as to heat up the demand for express logistics during the festival. At present, EMS, SF, JD logistics, Yuantong, Debang and other enterprises have announced that “the Spring Festival is not closed”. The State Post Office also issued a notice requiring all enterprises to adhere to the main tone of “no closing, no network and no backlog” during the Spring Festival, and make every effort to provide online shopping and delivery services for daily necessities. It is hoped that during the Spring Festival, all express delivery enterprises will arrange operation resources, allocate transportation capacity and manpower in advance, and maintain the operation stability of grass-roots outlets. The State Post Office also urged express enterprises, especially franchise outlets, to settle employees’ wages in time.
