On August 1, the reporter learned from China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group Co., Ltd. that as of July 31, more than half of the railway summer transportation, the Southern Railway sent a total of 27.16 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%. Among them, Jiangxi and Fujian sent 13.96 million and 13.2 million passengers respectively, an increase of 8.6% and 3% year-on-year respectively. The number of passengers sent by the two provinces reached a record high in the same period in history. The Southern Railway has made full use of the resources of high-speed rail lines, increased investment in transportation capacity, and opened a total of 2,026 additional passenger trains to facilitate passenger travel.
It is understood that since July 1, the passenger flow of the Southern Railway has always remained high, with the highest single-day passenger volume in the tube reaching 1.113 million, and the average daily passenger volume of more than 1 million passengers has been sent for 6 days. The potential of the three new high-speed railway lines of Hangchang, Yongguang and Longlong, which were put into operation for the first time, has been further released, and a total of 1.897 million passengers have been sent by the three high-speed railways so far.
In addition, in view of the significant increase in summer passenger travel, the Southern Railway further optimized service measures to provide more accurate and intimate travel services. With the opening of the "second half" of the summer transportation, the family passenger flow of summer travel is superimposed on the student passenger flow brought by the successive opening of major colleges and universities, and the southern railway will usher in the peak of the return passenger flow of the summer transportation, and the railway department will adjust the train operation plan in accordance with the method of "one day and one map" to meet the travel needs of passengers to the greatest extent.