CCTV News: The 40-day 2025 Spring Festival travel rush will end on February 22. The Ministry of Transport predicts that the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society will reach 9 billion during the entire Spring Festival travel rush, and multiple individual data will hit new highs in various fields such as railways, highways, and civil aviation.

As the main responsibility of the Spring Festival travel rush, let’s first look at the “report card” handed over by the railway. Since the launch of ticket sales in the Spring Festival travel rush, the number of tickets sold in a single day has reached 21.555 million, setting a record high in the Spring Festival travel rush. China Railway Corporation predicts that in the 40 days of the Spring Festival travel rush, the number of railway passengers is expected to exceed 500 million, setting a record high in the Spring Festival travel rush.

This Spring Festival travel rush, the cross-border passenger flow of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway reached 4 million, an increase of 29% year-on-year, setting a new high in the previous Spring Festival travel rush.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the number of civil aviation passengers exceeded 2.48 million in a single day, setting a record high.

In the 40th day of the Spring Festival travel rush, the country is expected to send more than 30 million passengers, setting a record high.

Overall, during the Spring Festival holiday, starting from January 31, the cross-regional personnel flow in the whole society exceeded 300 million people per day for five consecutive days. On February 3 (the sixth day of the first lunar month), the cross-regional personnel flow in the whole society set a record high in the same period in history, and the number of travelers on this day reached 339 million.

The 40 days of the Spring Festival travel rush, behind the many data hit new highs is an increasingly safe, convenient and smart modern comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network. Today, my country has built the world's largest high-speed railway network, highway network, and world-class port and airport cluster. In recent years, roads, water transportation, civil aviation and railways have made efforts together to gradually form a multi-level travel system. The total mileage of the comprehensive transportation network has exceeded 6 million kilometers, which gives the people the confidence to leave as they say.

New routes and new demands New consumption trends during the Spring Festival travel

Today's Spring Festival travel is no longer just a synonym for returning home for the New Year. In 40 days, people have a variety of reasons for travel. According to the Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, there were 501 million domestic travelers nationwide during the Spring Festival holiday alone, an increase of 5.9% year-on-year; the total domestic travel expenses were 677.02 billion yuan, an increase of 7.0% year-on-year. Large-scale personnel flow and consumption capacity highlight the vitality and resilience of my country's consumption.

This Spring Festival travel rush, the new railway line with more than 3,100 kilometers ushered in its "first show in the Spring Festival travel rush". While traveling is more convenient, it also brings new opportunities to the tourism industry. In the west, the railway connects the scenic spot. After the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway is opened, passengers can take the express train from Chengdu and arrive at Jiuzhaigou as fast as 3 hours. In the Yangtze River Delta, the large ring line connecting the three provinces and one city of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui has achieved two-way operation, with the number of passengers increasing by 6.3% compared with the same period last year's Spring Festival travel rush.

The Asian Winter Association has inspired the "ice and snow fever". During this year's Spring Festival travel rush, the peak passenger flow of nearly 300,000 people per day was superimposed with the transportation of the Asian Winter Games. The railway department has increased the frequency of trains between popular cities such as Mudanjiang, Jiamusi, and Mohe. The shortest departure interval between Harbin and Yabuli in the Asian Winter Games is every 7 minutes.

Inner Mongolia snow season lasts for 7 months. During this year's Spring Festival travel rush, Inner Mongolia took advantage of the geographical advantages of Ulanqab City to launch 7 high-quality ice and snow tourism routes. Folk trains, travel photography trains, intangible cultural heritage trains, Northeast flower jackets, birch bark paintings, dough sculptures, embroidery and other intangible cultural heritage products embellish the carriage with a strong snow-capped flavor.

Gula Yiernte, the inheritor of the Oroqen intangible cultural heritage, said: "If we can bring the intangible cultural heritage and inheritance projects in the Daxinganling Mountains on the train, our inheritors will also use their own hands and wisdom to protect every precious cultural heritage and continue to be passed on and carried forward."

From short-distance "surrounding tour" to long-distance "theme tour", from cultural experience to leisure and vacation, the diverse tourism needs are better met by the connection of the three-dimensional transportation network. In Fujian, the first highway service area cinema opened on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The head of Fujian Expressway Culture Media Cinemas, said: "So far, there are about 12,000 viewers, and the box office revenue is more than 500,000 yuan."

The rural roads of more than 4.6 million kilometers are like capillaries that penetrate deep into the countryside, making remote villages a popular check-in spot for tourism.

Shen Leilei, head of a homestay in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, said: "This year during the Spring Festival holiday, orders will be one after another. This year, we also plan to develop new consumption formats to combine rural tourism with spiritual healing to give tourists a better and more comfortable experience." Gao Bo, deputy director of the Transportation Service Department of the Ministry of Transport, said that this year's Spring Festival travel rush, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society hit a record high, of which tourism accounts for more than one-quarter. The "travel of visiting relatives" and "travel flow" have effectively promoted the popularity of the holiday tourism and consumer market.