2025 Spring Festival travel rush being under orderly arrangement

On Dec. 04 of 2024, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed Spring Festival, social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of the traditional new year, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, during the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Henceforth, China gets 44 cultural elements or practices recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

After that, China relaxed and optimized its visa-free policies, extending the stay of visa-free inbound travelers from 54 nations to 240 hours.

According to National Immigration Administration, the nation’s checkpoints would witness the new peak in inbound and outbound travel during the ongoing Spring Festival term, with 1.85 million of cross-border travelers each day averagely, up 9.5% as compared with that of the previous year. The peak in the outbound travel would fall on Jan. 28 to Jan. 30 (Chinese New Year’s Eve to the second day of the first month on Chinese lunar calendar), while the peak in the inbound travel would fall on Feb. 03 and Feb. 04 (the sixth and seventh days of the first month on Chinese lunar calendar).

At China Economic Roundtable held on Jan. 24, Wang Xiuchun -- deputy director of the Transport Service Department under Ministry of Transport of the PRC, expressed that the transport sector during the ongoing Spring Festival term would be likely to break the historical record in its scale.

According to the anticipation, due to the upcoming Spring Festival, the nation’s railway sector would see a year-on-year increase of 5.5% in the railway passenger number, which would exceed 510 million, averaging 12.75 million per day, while the civil aviation sector would break the historical record for the same period, with over 900 million of aviation passengers. Besides, about 7.2 trillion ones would like to choose automatic driving, accounting for 80% of the nation’s total cross-region travel flow. The expressway system of the nation would welcome the record-breaking traffic flow.

There are huge changes in the ongoing Spring Festival transport. The number of cross-region passengers is going up to 9 trillion, with an overwhelming increase as compared with decades of years ago, expressed by Wang Xiuchun.

Besides the sharply-increasing number of passengers, the structures of Spring Festival travel rushes during the recent years are also experiencing changes. While a large majority of the passengers are still with the purpose of relative visit, an increasing proportion of ones choose to travel for sightseeing. And, with the rapid development of the society, self-driving is becoming one of the main traveling methods, as more and more people could afford a car.

As new-energy automobiles are becoming more and more popular in the society, it is a public concern to guarantee the automobile charging service. To the end of 2024, there had been 35,000 charging poles and 51,000 pieces of parking space with charging function, all over the nation’s expressway service areas. Right before the upcoming Spring Festival, a new batch of charging facilities would be open to the travelers, to better meet the public demands for automobile charging. Besides, the charging facilities at the nation’s expressway service areas would be put under special examinations. Travelers could get to know charging information through related notices, as expressed by related authority.

Reference: xinhuanet; CCTV.com;

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