The 2022 Hunan Provincial Spring Festival Travel Rush Video Conference was held on January 11, 2022. Vice Governor Chen Fei attended and delivered a speech.

Vice Governor Chen noted that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be held during Chunyun, or Spring Festival travel rush, and the situation of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control is still severe and complex. All relevant units should fully comprehend the importance and complexity of the 2022 Spring Festival travel rush; strengthen the consciousness of relevant tasks; and, make every effort to prevent and control the epidemic during the Spring Festival travel rush and guarantee transportation services, so as to ensure a safe, healthy, smooth, and warm trip for passengers.

He asked to pay close attention to the following aspects:
- comprehensively inspect and rectify potential safety hazards in all transport modes of road, rail, water, and air, and all aspects of road, vehicle, and passenger, to improve the level of intrinsic safety;
- do well in forecasting and early warning of rainy, snowy, and freezing weather to prevent accidents;
- strengthen emergency plans, forces, rescue, supplies, and equipment preparation, to improve the level of emergency response capabilities;
- fully disinfect major venues such as stations, yards, and expressway service areas, as well as confined spaces, strictly implement epidemic prevention measures such as requiring passengers to wear masks, scanning their health codes and measuring their temperatures, and setting up quarantine areas, strengthen supervision and inspection, and take epidemic prevention and control as the primary task;
- optimize organization and scheduling to ensure passenger and freight capacity;
- expand “contactless” ticket sales and check-in services to improve the speed of passengers entering and exiting stations;
- strengthen law enforcement to reduce congestion and ensure smooth flow;
- improve service quality and create a convenient and warm travel environment; and,
- do a good job of overall planning and coordination, strengthen publicity and information release, and care for the front-line cadres and workers serving for the Spring Festival travel rush.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn