During the 3-day Qingming Festival holiday, highways, railways, civil aviation, and other departments coordinated the work of epidemic prevention and control, transportation services, and safety management, and the provincial transportation situation was generally stable and orderly. It was learned that 525,000 railway passenger trips were made in Hunan Province; as of 20:00 on April 5, more than 4.36 million vehicles passed through entrances and exits of expressways in the province. This was a huge drop compared with last year’s Qingming Festival holiday which saw 12.242 million vehicles.

Hunan Railway saw 245,000 departure and 280,000 arrival passenger trips respectively, of which 152,000 took high-speed trains, accounting for 62% of the total. The railway passenger flow was mainly for short-distance tomb sweeping trips and green outings. Most of the passenger flow was from Changsha to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hengyang, and Shaoyang. According to the passengers’ demand and changes in epidemic prevention and control policies, the China Railway Guangzhou Group implemented “one operation diagram per day”, to dynamically allocate transportation capacity and precisely operate trains.

Major stations in Hunan Province strictly implemented anti-pandemic measures to ensure travelers’ safety during the Qingming Festival holiday, including temperature measurement, health code verification, nucleic acid test certificate inspection, disinfection, and special waste disposal. Passengers in Hunan were required to scan the venue code when entering a station, and show green Hunan resident health code before boarding. The Changsha South Railway Station checked the 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate for passengers entering Hunan from other provinces. Free nucleic acid test points were set up in the exit halls of the East and West Squares. Passengers who cannot provide nucleic acid certificates must conduct nucleic acid tests on the spot before leaving the station.

Hunan’s expressways continued to implement the free toll policy for passenger cars with seven seats or fewer. From the evening of April 4, the expressways across Hunan Province witnessed the return peak of medium and long-distance and some short-distance road trips. According to the data of the provincial expressway network operation monitoring command center, from 20:00 on April 3 to 20:00 on April 5, the total vehicles passing through expressway entrances and exits in the province exceeded 4.36 million, of which small passenger cars accounted for 75.24%, large and medium-sized passenger cars accounted for 0.57%, and large trucks accounted for 24.19%.

The provincial road traffic network saw majority of cars for short-distance self-driving trips, and the travelers were mainly those who returned to their hometowns and tourists. This was mainly reflected in the regional short-distance tidal traffic flow centering on Changsha and other cities and prefecture, and the greatly-reduced inter-provincial and inter-regional medium and long-distance traffic flow.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
 
Translator: Yu Jiangjiang
 
Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn