China News Service, Fuzhou, February 24 (Reporter Long Min) During the 40-day 2025 Spring Festival travel rush, the demand for travel of four "small three" passenger routes continued to be strong, with a total of about 204,000 passengers transported, an increase of about 45% year-on-year, and the passenger volume hit a new high. Among them, on January 25, the single-day inbound and outbound passenger flow of the "Small Three Connect" passenger routes from Xiamen to Kinmen and Quanzhou to Kinmen both set the highest peak record since the resumption of flights. Among them, the single-day inbound and outbound passenger flow of the "Small Three Connect" passenger routes from Xiamen to Kinmen exceeded 6,000.

Many experts told China News Service reporters on the 24th that the heating of the "Mini Santong" Spring Festival travel rush is not only a vivid footnote to the blood, literary and business relationships between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also a realistic reflection of "one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait".

Su Meixiang, head of the Institute of Modern Taiwan, Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that when Kinmen sorghum wine and Quanzhou Tieguanyin blend on the New Year's Eve table, and when southern Fujian nursery rhymes are sung between Fujian and Taiwan, the "Mini Three Connections" passenger route between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait has become a spiritual bridge that breaks barriers and connects the soul.

Since the full resumption of shipping in January 2023, the cross-strait "small three-way" passenger routes have returned from "suspended" to a warm livelihood channel. With the continuous advancement of cross-strait integration and development, the Fujian-Taiwan Spring Festival holiday has set off a "two-way rushing" craze.

Before the Spring Festival, there were endless people from Kinmen and Mazu who took the "Missy Three Connect" passenger route to visit relatives and friends and purchase New Year's goods. In Huangqi Town, Lianjiang County, Fuzhou City, Mazu fellow Cao Yahui said that most of the ancestral homes of Mazu fellows are from Fuzhou and are used to buying from Huangqi. The taste is the same, and the local fish are fresh and beautiful.

The rich folk activities in various parts of Fujian have also attracted Taiwanese compatriots to "log in". The Lantern Festival in Putian City has deeply remembered Wang Wenxian, a person in the photography industry in Taiwan. He said that he felt the strong "New Year atmosphere" from the wonderful local folk customs, and recorded it with his own camera, which will bring the beauty of Putian Lantern Festival back to Taiwan.

On the evening of February 12, Jiaying Temple in Dongshi Town, Jinjiang City was brightly lit. More than 100 Taiwanese compatriots from Jiaying Temple in Budai Town, Chiayi County, Taiwan and Zhongyi Temple in Xinshi, Jinhu Town, Kinmen County, participated in the Fujian Taitung Stone Lantern Customs with local people. Cai Chongyi, Director-General of Jiaying Temple in Budai Town, Chiayi County, Taiwan, said that for hundreds of years, Dongshi villagers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have continued this bloody family affection.

This year's Spring Festival holiday is the first Spring Festival holiday for Fujian residents after the recovery of tourism in Jinma. Going to Jinma to celebrate the New Year with Taiwanese compatriots has become a new choice for Fujian residents during the Spring Festival. Statistics show that from January 28 to February 7, Fujian residents visited Kinmen and Mazu in individual tours and 30 tours in group tours.

In response to the "two-way" craze of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, this year's Spring Festival travel rush, the "Small Three Connections" passenger routes increased from the original 20 ships per day to 24 ships, with a daily operating time of more than 9 hours, basically achieving one ship every half hour; the "Small Three Connections" passenger routes increased from the original 2 ships per day to 4 ships per day; the border inspection and quick customs clearance personnel information collection and filing points were added to facilitate the use of fast channels for Taiwanese compatriots who voluntarily retain information, and simultaneously realize "one-place registration and mainland access".

Zhang Mingjuan, deputy director of the Border Inspection Department of Fuzhou Border Inspection Station, said that during the Spring Festival travel rush, the station opened a full express passage before the peak period of passengers arrives to maximize customs clearance efficiency and shorten the waiting time for passengers. In response to the actual difficulties of Taiwanese compatriots taking their families with their families, carrying children and large luggage during the Spring Festival travel rush, they launched a "family joy" family channel and "hand-in-hand" exclusive channel and other service measures.

Su Meixiang said that a shallow strait cannot separate the friendship between compatriots on both sides of the strait. Deepening cross-strait exchanges and cooperation is the will of the people and the general trend. Compatriots on both sides of the strait will get closer and closer as they come and go closer.