With an average train frequency of 54 seconds, the National Day high-speed rail weaves a picture of mobile consumption

The National Day holiday is over. Data from the China Railway Group shows that during the seven-day holiday, the country's railways carried a total of 152 million passengers, with many indicators hitting record highs.

During this year’s National Day holiday, the weather is fine in most parts of the country. Demand for travel, family visits, leisure and other travels is strong, and railway passenger flow remains at a high level.

On the first day of the National Day holiday, the number of railway passengers across the country reached 25.204 million, setting a record high in single-day passenger traffic. Among the seven days of the holiday, the number of single-day passenger flows exceeded 20 million on six days. Guangzhou South Railway Station's passenger arrivals and departures reached 1.049 million on October 1, making it the first railway station in the country to have more than one million passengers arriving and departing in a single day.

Huang Quan, Director of the Operation Workshop of Guangzhou South Railway Station: Guangzhou South Railway Station operated 1,590 trains on October 1, with an average of 54 seconds to start and receive a train that day, and an average of about 40 seconds to start and receive a train in the hour with the highest operating density.

During the National Day holiday, railways across the country implemented a peak operation chart to coordinate high-speed rail and normal-speed transportation resources to effectively improve regional passenger transportation capacity, with about 13,000 passenger trains operating every day. From the night of October 1st and October 5th to 7th to the early morning of the next day, night high-speed trains will be operated on the Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Guangzhou, Beijing-Harbin and other high-speed railway trunk lines, with a maximum of about 700 trains operating in a single day.

Qiu Xiaosheng, duty director of Chengdu East Station of the National Railway Chengdu Bureau: In addition to the regular operation of sleeper trains from Chengdu to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other directions, 233 sleeper trains have also been operated at night to popular tourist cities such as Xi'an and Kunming.

During the National Day holiday, new services will be provided at key stations. Several stations of the National Railway Beijing Bureau have opened "express entry halls" and "emergency passenger passages" to meet passengers' needs for quick ticket checking and entry. Railway stations in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Hefei, Ningbo and other places are open all night during peak passenger flow days to provide a comfortable waiting environment for passengers traveling by night trains.

Relying on the intelligent passenger transportation dispatching system, Qingdao Station dynamically monitors the changes in passenger flow at each station entrance and each train, issues passenger flow warning prompts at different times, predicts the next day's heavy passenger flow and intensive arrival and departure periods in advance, and accurately guides passengers to enter and exit the station in an orderly manner on peak passenger flow days.

Several new high-speed rail lines opened

Stimulate holiday consumption vitality

Before this year’s National Day holiday, a number of new high-speed rail lines were opened on the same day, adding more than 1,100 kilometers of high-speed rail operating mileage in my country. During this National Day holiday, new lines and new networks were created to provide travel convenience for passengers along the lines while also stimulating holiday consumption vitality.

Among the newly opened lines, the Xiongshang Section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-speed Railway has the widest coverage area and the longest operating mileage. It is 552 kilometers long, spans three provinces, and brings 11 counties into the high-speed rail circle of friends. With the opening of the new line, Hengshui in Hebei Province, Liaocheng and Heze in Shandong Province, and Shangqiu in Henan Province have become new high-speed rail hubs connecting the east, west, north and south. This holiday season, travelers along the line will have an additional high-speed rail channel to enter and exit Beijing. On the last day of the holiday, the number of passengers sent to Liaocheng West Station hit a new high since the station was established.

Lv Nan, a tourist from Liaocheng: It turns out that it takes more than 4 hours to go to Beijing. Now it only takes more than two hours to travel, which is more convenient and faster for holiday travel.

The Hai-Yi High-speed Railway, which extends more than 300 kilometers north from Harbin, is celebrating its first National Day holiday since it was put into operation. Yichun West Station has opened high-speed trains directly to Beijing and Dalian. A large number of passengers are traveling north, making the towns in northern Xinjiang along the line really feel the holiday atmosphere. During the National Day holiday, the Haiyi High-speed Railway carried a total of 153,000 passengers.

Qi Zhixin, conductor of the Haiyi High-speed Railway in the Harbin passenger section: The opening of the Haiyi High-speed Railway has made it easier for passengers to travel. The crew team has added service content based on the characteristics of Yichun tourism, such as passenger travel guidance, dressing guide and other special services.

The Xi'an to Ankang high-speed rail connects the beautiful scenery of Guanzhong and Qinba. With high-speed rail tickets, tourists can enjoy exemptions or discounts on tickets and hotel accommodations for many scenic spots along the line. From October 2 to 5, 7 pairs of trains will run between Xi'an East Railway Station and Ankang West Railway Station every day, of which 2 pairs of train routes will be extended to Yan'an. It can reach the Qinba hinterland directly from the old revolutionary base in less than three hours. An average of 22,000 passengers will be sent per day during the seven-day holiday.