State Railway Group: The railway spring transport capacity in 2022 will increase by about 10% compared with 2019

On December 18, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the scientific and accurate prevention and control of the epidemic during the New Year's Day Spring Festival, and Wu Shiping, deputy director of the Ministry of Labor and Health of the State Railway Group, said at the meeting: The 2022 Spring Festival will begin on January 17 and end on February 25. It is predicted that the basic travel needs such as the flow of students, migrant workers and relatives in the Spring Festival of the railway next year will still maintain a certain scale, and the passenger flow will increase greatly compared with the Spring Festival in 2021, and the epidemic prevention and control work of the Spring Festival will face a greater test. The railway department will coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic and the organization of the Spring Festival, implement various epidemic prevention and control measures in a scientific and accurate manner, strictly and strictly, strictly prevent the spread of the epidemic through the railway, and strive to provide a safe and healthy travel environment for the majority of passengers.

The first is to provide capacity conditions conducive to epidemic prevention and control. Make full use of the achievements of railway development such as the completion and operation of a number of new railway lines and the increase in the number of EMUs and equipment, the railway spring transport capacity in 2022 will increase by about 10% compared with 2019, and the train load rate will be strictly controlled when ticketing and boarding are organized, and the conditional trains will implement decentralized ticket sales to provide relatively relaxed and favorable transportation conditions for epidemic prevention and control.

The second is to strictly implement the prevention and control measures for the whole process of riding at stations and cars. Major railway stations across the country conscientiously implement the epidemic prevention and control requirements of the territorial government, do a good job in the work of passengers entering the station according to regulations, strictly prevent passengers who do not meet the boarding requirements from entering the station; strengthen the organization of passenger flow at stations, guide passengers to wait in an orderly manner, use non-contact services such as self-service equipment to reduce the risk of contact transmission; stop train dining car dine-in services and change to deliver meals to the seats of the carriages; strengthen the publicity of station car broadcasts to remind passengers to do a good job of personal protection; strengthen the ventilation and disinfection of station cars, and regularly carry out environmental health monitoring.

The third is to standardize the emergency handling of epidemic-related passengers during the operation of passenger trains. Passenger trains are reserved for isolation seats in accordance with regulations, emergency isolation places are set up in stations, emergency disposal supplies are standardized for trains and stations, and training drills for emergency handling of the epidemic are strengthened to ensure emergency preparedness. Strengthen the joint prevention and control linkage between railways and localities, on-board and off-board, and once epidemic-related passengers are found, they should immediately do a good job in disposing of them in an orderly manner in accordance with the provisions of scientific norms.

In short, we will strive to coordinate the Spring Festival organization and epidemic prevention and control work to ensure the safe and healthy travel of the majority of passengers. (Liu Yingqi)