Beijing, March 12,

The 2018 Spring Festival ended successfully on March 12th. The reporter was informed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications that preliminary statistics show that about 2.97 billion passengers were sent nationwide during the 40 days of the Spring Festival, basically the same as last year.

According to the introduction, during the Spring Festival, the national transportation capacity is generally adapted to the masses, "difficult to find a ticket" problem further alleviated, coal, natural gas, meat, poultry, vegetables and other key materials transportation is generally orderly. Railroad in the normal capacity on the basis of the daily increase of 287 pairs of through the temporary passenger, night 88.5 pairs of temporary train sets; highway into 840,000 passenger cars, more than 21 million passengers; waterway into more than 20,000 ships, more than 1 million passengers; civil aviation arrangements for overtime program 5,166, more than 10,000 flights at night.

During the Spring Festival, the national road network operated smoothly. The Ministry of Transportation focused on monitoring the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and other 20 key corridors, the average daily cross-section traffic volume of more than 30,000 vehicles.

All over the world in accordance with the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Public Security, the General Administration of Safety and Security, the National Federation of Trade Unions, **** Youth League Central Committee and other five departments of the joint organization of the "full of travel" activities deployment, make full use of the Internet, big data and other information technology means, innovative convenience and benefit to the people, mobile payment, cell phone ticketing, Mobile payment, mobile ticketing, "face" entry, intermodal transport and other personalized, humanized services continue to be launched, the new highlights of the Spring Festival, the new phenomenon is striking, travelers travel sense of gain and satisfaction continues to improve. According to the third-party survey data, 74.8% of the surveyed travelers are more satisfied with this year's Spring Festival work or think it has improved over previous years, an increase of 3.8 percentage points over last year.