Spring Festival

 China news agency, Beijing, February 27 (Reporter Shi Yan) - 27, the 40-day Spring Festival travel season came to an end. According to Transportation Department statistics, during the spring, highway and waterway passenger were transported 2.64 billion passengers, an increase of 13.6%.

It is understood that during the Spring Festival this year, strong demand for passenger travel, especially in the Spring Festival Golden Week, road passenger traffic increased by 13.8%, an increase of a record high.

response to this situation, the national road passenger transport invested a total of 840,000 medium-sized, with an average send 2.4 million trips a day or so; water transport invested a total of 13,089 ships, provide class 619 000.

provided by the Ministry of Transportation data show that passenger traffic in rural areas for doing work during the Spring Festival, the country invested a total of nearly 380,000 passenger vehicles in rural areas, completed more than 1.1 billion passenger trips, an increase of nearly 15 %. China invested a total of about 420,000 buses, about 9.2 billion passenger trips completed.

is worth mentioning that the spring at the beginning of some provinces in the south cold Freezing disaster hit, the severity in some areas more than in 2008. However, the same as in 2008 a large number of vehicles on the road and stranded passengers for a long time does not reproduce the scene, the Ministry of Transport said it was because the disaster in 2008, the Ministry of Transport set up network center has built an information exchange, coordination and efficient network scheduling and emergency response system.

In addition, the frequency of extreme weather events this year, the circumstances, the national road spring water to keep the overall security situation remains stable. Ministry of Transport said it should be attributed to the transport sector at all levels, always put safety first work in the spring.

Ministry of Transport and Maritime Rescue and Salvage Bureau with bad weather during the Spring Festival, the characteristics of frequent cold air, scientific deployment of rescue forces, completed the marine emergency rescue, salvage and rescue work standby duty. As at 12:00 on the 27th, out of professional salvage salvage the cumulative power of the system 125, perform 123 special rescue mission, the successful rescue persons in distress at 294, 37 ships in distress, saved property worth about 499 million yuan.

China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre and the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities sea (water) were organized on the search and rescue center to coordinate search and rescue operations 150 times, coordination of rescue ships dispatched 642 ships and 27 aircraft sorties, rescue people in distress 1333 and rescue ships in distress 149, to ensure the country during the spring sea (water) on the security situation remained stable. (End)