Spring Festival travel rush peak is a large-scale high traffic pressure phenomenon in China around the Lunar New Year. Centered on the Spring Festival, it lasts about 40 days, from the 15th of the twelfth lunar month to the 25th of the first month of the following year. The national transportation peak issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and specially arranged by the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Administration is called Spring Festival travel rush Peak.

Generally speaking, Spring Festival travel rush refers to the inter-city traffic in Chinese mainland, excluding the traffic between Chinese mainland and Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province provinces and international traffic.

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During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the railway will continue to adhere to the principle of "customer-oriented, win-win for both passengers and goods, South-to-North Railway Transfer, South-to-North Railway Transfer and non-stop train operation", and make good use of the time difference and regional differences to start the "South-to-North Railway Transfer" work ahead of schedule.

The transportation of goods should be considered as a whole, focusing on the transportation of goods in areas with relatively sufficient supply, and optimizing the allocation of transportation capacity. On the basis of ensuring the transportation of key materials such as coal, grain and oil, holiday materials and materials for Hong Kong, we will strengthen the marketing organization in areas, routes and time periods with relatively loose transportation capacity, tap the transportation potential, and actively organize online drainage.

During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the Ministry of Railways implemented special operation charts and added a large number of temporary passenger cars. Spring Festival travel rush peak should deal with normal passenger flow, peak passenger flow and sudden passenger flow respectively.