The peak of Spring Festival travel rush’s return journey comes, and the railway department increases its transportation capacity to cope with the post-holiday migrant workers.

    Today is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. In the past two days, many passengers who have returned to work and visited relatives and friends have embarked on a return journey. Local railway departments have increased their transport capacity and actively responded to the passenger flow after the holiday.

    At 7: 27 am on February 15th, the G2301 train loaded with 556 migrant workers from Yunnan slowly left Zhenxiong Station. In order to do a good job of returning migrant workers to their posts, Chengdu Bureau of China Railway will launch a special train for migrant workers from southwest China to Rui ‘an, Jinhua, Yongkang and Wenzhou from February 15th to March 5th.

    Xi ‘an Bureau of China Railway opened a special train from Hanzhong to Guangzhou and Shenzhen every other day. Wuhan Bureau of China Railway also runs a 14-day special train for migrant workers in Huizhou and Dongguan in Dabie Mountain area, sending nearly 10,000 Dabie Mountain villagers back to work. Gannan county, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, is a county with a large population of migrant workers. Harbin Bureau of the State Railway, relying on the "road+railway" seamless docking mode, has opened up a fast return passage for migrant workers.

    Zhou Wenqing, Deputy Director of Passenger Transport Workshop of Qiqihar Station of Harbin Bureau of China National Railway: We have established a wechat group for migrant workers’ service, and learned their travel time, number and batch in time, and coordinated according to their needs at any time. Since the fifth day of junior high school, 11 groups of migrant workers have returned to their posts.

    Faced with the double superposition of work flow and family visit flow, local railway departments have expanded their transportation capacity by adding trains, reconnecting emus and hanging carriages. Zhengzhou Bureau of China Railway adjusts the number of trains in real time according to the passenger flow and the online booking and pre-sale of tickets. Zhengzhou Locomotive Depot mobilizes the spare capacity to send more personnel reasonably, shortens the departure interval and ensures sufficient capacity.

    Yang Hongliang, Duty Director of Zhengzhou Locomotive Depot of Zhengzhou Bureau of China Railway, said: Today (15th), we started 784 EMU trains, arranged 21 high-speed trains at night, and flexibly deployed EMU drivers to wait for passengers, thus increasing the supply of locomotives.

    On the trains from Nanchang to Chengdu East and Guangzhou, where there are many migrant workers, the railway staff collected and sorted out the legal guides for migrant workers and distributed them to passengers in need to help them raise their awareness of rights protection and protect their legitimate rights and interests.

    Railway departments around the country carefully serve the warm return road.

    In order to allow passengers to taste the delicious food along the route. A number of railway lines enrich train meals and foods. At Xishuangbanna Station in China-Laos Railway, a hot-chain box lunch which is cooked now and delivered at a constant temperature appears. Passengers can place an order through the "Kuntie+"applet or scan the QR code of the armrest one hour before arriving at Xishuangbanna Station, and then they can taste the fresh food made within 40 minutes, such as Dai beef, Banna millet and pineapple rice. In some routes from Zhengzhou to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, various packages such as fine beef brisket, braised pork, tomato and eggs have been added to enrich the taste buds of passengers.

    Lanzhou Bureau of China Railway has set up a "New Year Collection" in the waiting room of Yinchuan Station, which brings together more than 20 kinds of special products such as Yanchitan mutton and Babao tea in Ningxia. In addition to the new year’s goods collection, the China-Europe imported goods bonded store also entered Beijing Station. All the goods in the store adopt the mode of global direct mining plus bonded e-commerce.

    On the way back, in order to prevent the children from being separated from their parents during the travel time with dense crowds and large passenger flows, the staff of Yingtan North Station also made an anti-loss bracelet. Parents can write the information such as the date of travel, the number of trains and the seat number on the bracelet, and the staff can quickly help the children find their parents with the information on the bracelet.