Spring has sprung and the annual rush is on
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Millions of Chinese are traveling smarter, faster, more efficiently and more comfortably than ever before after one of the world’s largest human migrations began on Friday.
The Spring Festival travel rush, which sees families and friends reunite around the country for China’s most important traditional holiday, began 15 days ahead of Chinese New Year on January 25.
The high-speed rail link between Beijing and Zhangjiakou, co-host city of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in northern Hebei Province, opened on December 30.
The travel time between the two cities has been greatly shortened and Zhangjiakou is now within Beijing’s one-hour economic circle, according to Li Shengwu, head of the Infrastructure Development Department of Zhangjiakou Development and Reform Commission.
A core part of the “eight verticals and eight horizontals” rail network, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed service connects with the Zhangjiakou-Hohhot and Datong-Zhangjiakou high-speed lines, helping to reduce the holiday travel pressure in Beijing, eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi Province and northern Hebei Province.
Travel is becoming more efficient for travelers this Spring Festival, who are expected to make 3.6 billion trips during the period.
Ticket sale is the first big test.
The rapid technological development has accelerated online ticket sales and ticket checking.
In the 2020 holiday rush, the daily ticketing capacity of the official 12306 online booking service will increase from 15 million to 20 million.
Ticket checking is faster as e-tickets are quickly replacing paper tickets.
The checking of e-tickets, a service now available at all high-speed railway stations, takes 30 percent less time compared with manual checking of paper tickets.
Facial recognition technology has also been used in some stations to speed up the ticket checking process.
Travel services are also becoming more intelligent with robot information services and intelligent storage facilities further improving travel efficiency.
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