CCTV Beijing, May 6 (Reporter Wang Jing) This "May Day" holiday, stations, airports, subway stations, people, vehicles, logistics, the flow of people, vehicles, logistics, endless.
On May 6, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport a set of the latest data showing that during the Labor Day holiday (May 1 to 5), the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society was 1,358,462,700, with a daily average of 271,693,000, an increase of 23.7% over the same period in 2019 (during the Labor Day holiday, the same below) and an increase of 2.1% over the same period in 2023.
Behind the flow of China, it is inseparable from the help and support of transportation. Experts said that behind the surging crowds of people and the smooth flow of goods, it reflects the "stable quality and quantity" of China's economy.
Passengers wait for the train in an orderly manner at Shenyang Station
"100 million people from every city"
A number of "new records" have witnessed the travel popularity of the "May Day" holiday.
According to the data center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, there were 295 million domestic tourism trips during this year's "May Day" holiday, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%, and an increase of 28.2% compared with the same period in 2019 on a comparable basis.
The reporter paid attention to the fact that on social platforms, topics such as "100 million people came to each city" and "tourists captured multiple tourist cities" dominated the list.
A few days ago, a number of travel platforms have successively released travel reports on this year's "May Day" holiday. The data shows that during the "May Day" holiday, the flight and train capacity of the domestic tourism market, as well as the reception capacity of hotels and B&Bs, have exceeded the pre-epidemic level. Data from a large homestay platform also shows that the number of bookings in popular cities during the May Day holiday has increased by more than 20% compared with 2023, hitting a record high.
In addition, inbound and outbound tourism, as an important part of the tourism industry's income, continued to heat up and recover during the "May Day" holiday. According to the data, in terms of outbound travel, the number of international air tickets and hotel bookings reached a record high in the same period in history, and Chinese tourists traveled to 1,035 cities around the world.
Civil aviation has also ushered in a peak of passenger flow. For example, Shanghai Pudong and Hongqiao airports carried out 11,000 flights, a year-on-year increase of 29.1 percent, and the average daily passenger flow reached 349,000 passengers, a year-on-year increase of more than 40 percent. As of 18:00 on May 5, Haikou Meilan International Airport and Sanya Phoenix International Airport carried out a total of 172 overseas flights, transporting 23,000 inbound and outbound passengers, a year-on-year increase of 4.6 times.
Railway stations around the country are also actively meeting the travel needs of passengers. For example, the recent TV series "Riding the Wind and Waves" with the background of the entrepreneurship of "swimsuit people" in Xingcheng, Liaoning Province has been broadcast, and many people have taken advantage of the "May Day" holiday to come to this century-old city on Liaodong Bay to play. To this end, Shenyang Bureau Group Co., Ltd. has added Z4064, K4042, K5049 and other film and television theme trains to Xingcheng, so that tourists can not only check in at the filming location of the TV series, but also play in this small coastal city.
In view of the characteristics of public travel during the "May Day" holiday, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport introduced that the information sharing and connection between urban and rural transportation capacity and railway, road, water transport, civil aviation and other trunk transportation lines should be strengthened, and the transportation capacity of tourism distribution centers and tourist attractions (points) should be increased.
Tourists visit the ancient city of Tianshui in Gansu Province
"County Tour" unexpectedly became popular
The smooth flow of people proves that the tourism consumption market is hot. The reporter learned from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. that from April 29 to May 6, the national railway is expected to send 144 million passengers, with an average of 18 million passengers per day.
At the time of the holiday economic boom, there is also a trend worth paying attention to is that during this year's "May Day" holiday, the trend of tourism sinking is more obvious, and the "county tour" is unexpectedly popular.
From Zibo barbecue to Tianshui spicy hot, from flag head cheongsam to Hanfu hairpin, from sunrise and sunset to the army of chasing tears...... A small town with local characteristics, with food, beautiful clothes, and beautiful scenery, it has exploded in the circle. Compared with the "crowded" in first- and second-tier cities, industry insiders said that the sinking market provides the possibility for tourists to spend their holidays in a relaxed and relaxed manner, and the cost of accommodation and catering is also more cost-effective. According to data from a travel platform, during this year's holiday, in terms of year-on-year growth rate of travel orders, first- and second-tier cities are smaller than third- and fourth-tier cities, and third- and fourth-tier cities are smaller than county markets. Anji, Tonglu, Dujiangyan, Yangshuo, Maitreya, Yiwu, Wuyuan and other places are popular county tourist destinations, with an average increase of 36% in tourism orders.
This trend is also confirmed by data from another travel platform, with hotel bookings and scenic spots in small cities below the third tier in the northeast and western regions increasing by more than 100% year-on-year during this year's holiday season, indicating a growing interest in non-traditional tourist destinations.
Wang Yalei, an industry analyst, said, "The consumption in the county market is lower, and the cost performance is higher in the eyes of tourists." Another tourism platform analyst also said that in recent years, the increasing convenience of social media communication has made it easier for people to understand the tourism resources and cultural characteristics of small cities.
In fact, the change in travel mode has also objectively promoted the unexpected "popularity" of "county town tours". According to the data of the Ministry of Transport, the average daily cross-regional flow of people during this year's "May Day" holiday exceeded 270 million. Among them, the proportion of self-driving travel is more than eighty percent.
On the first day of the May Day holiday, the Qianwan Container Terminal of Qingdao Port was busy and orderly
The port is busy with production at full capacity
People enjoy their travel, goods flow smoothly, and the port terminal is also busy during the holidays.
At the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, a container is handed over between a ship and a truck in less than two minutes. More than 100,000 standard containers enter and exit here every day, and the major port areas of Shandong Port are also busy, with cargo throughput increasing by 5.7% year-on-year and container growth of 8.0% year-on-year, setting a production record and 52 high-efficiency ......
On the 6th, the Ministry of Transport released on its official WeChat the smooth operation of the national logistics from April 29 to May 5. According to the monitoring and summary data of the Office of the Leading Group for Logistics Guarantee and Smooth Work of the State Council, from April 29 to May 5, the national freight logistics operated in an orderly manner, including: the cumulative cargo throughput of the monitored ports was 264.538 million tons, an increase of 1.26% month-on-month, and the container throughput was 5.883 million TEUs, a month-on-month decrease of 6.4%; the cumulative volume of postal express delivery was about 2.912 billion pieces, a month-on-month decrease of 14.33%, and the cumulative delivery volume was about 2.99 billion pieces, a month-on-month decrease of 9.8%.
The same scene happened in Xiamen. On the first line of the wharf, colorful containers are piled up layer by layer, towering bridge cranes are busy working, and transport vehicles of different shapes are flowing endlessly...... In the past few days, container ships of well-known shipping companies such as Mediterranean Shipping, Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, and Evergreen Shipping have come one after another, many of which are more than 150,000 tons of "cargo kings".
At the beginning of 2023, the Ministry of Transport, together with the Ministry of Natural Resources, the General Administration of Customs, the State Railway Administration, and the China Railway Group, issued the Action Plan for Promoting the High-Quality Development of Rail-Water Intermodal Transport (2023-2025), proposing that by 2025, the container rail-water combined transport volume of major ports in the country will reach 14 million TEUs, with an average annual growth rate of more than 15% in 2025.
Zheng Qingxiu, deputy director of the Water Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said that over the past year, the Ministry of Transport has strengthened inter-departmental cooperation and jointly taken measures to vigorously promote and achieve positive results. According to the data, in 2023, the volume of container rail-water combined transportation in ports across the country will reach 10.18 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 15.9%. In the first quarter of this year, the container rail-water combined transport volume of ports across the country reached 2.81 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 18%.
Recently, the Ministry of Transport, together with the State Railway Administration and the China Railway Group, issued the key points for promoting the high-quality development of rail-water intermodal transport in 2024, and jointly held a container rail-water intermodal transport development promotion meeting in Ningbo on April 23 to deploy the next key work of container rail-water intermodal transport: First, accelerate the integration of facilities and improve the level of connectivity. The second is to continue to strengthen the coordination of transportation organizations and improve the brand network of intermodal transport. The third is to further improve the efficiency of intermodal transport services, innovate the organizational model, and expand the increment of intermodal transport. Fourth, we will continue to optimize the development environment of iron-water intermodal transport and continue to improve the standard system of iron-water intermodal transport. Fifth, strengthen organizational coordination and demonstration effect, increase policy support, and jointly promote the high-quality development of container rail-water intermodal transport.
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