Chinese railway: During the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the national railway has transported a total of 213 million passengers.

According to China Railway, the 12-day National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday transportation ended successfully from September 29th to October 10th. The national railway system sent a total of 213 million passengers, with an average daily of 17.763 million passengers, an 8.6% increase compared to last year. The national railway system also sent a total of 137 million tons of goods, showing a prosperous trend in both passenger and freight transportation. During the 8-day National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday this year, the railway department actively adapted to the strong demand for passenger and freight transportation, adhering to the development ideology centered on the people, coordinating the use of resources, enhancing transportation capacity, improving service quality, effectively ensuring the safe and orderly travel of passengers during the holiday and the transportation of key materials for the national economy and people's livelihood, promoting the development of tourism economy, and injecting new vitality into the "mobile China." First, multiple transportation indicators reached historical highs. By accurately analyzing the travel needs of passengers, increasing capacity in popular directions and sections in a timely manner, maintaining the scale of regular speed trains, and meeting the diverse travel needs of passengers during the holiday, the national railway system daily operated passenger trains 12,899 columns, a 9.1% increase year on year. Among them, on October 8, 14,196 passenger trains were operated, setting a new historical high for single-day passenger transportation capacity. On October 1, 23.132 million passengers were sent, setting a new record for daily passenger transport volume. Second, tourist trains boosted holiday consumption. Efforts were made to operate family-friendly tours, red tours, health tours, and other tourist trains with specific characteristics, linking up along the way with local cuisine, beautiful scenery, and cultural sites, providing passengers with diverse travel options and a high-quality travel experience. Efforts were made to strengthen cross-border transportation organization during the holiday, with the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail and China-Laos railway sending 1.262 and 1.05 million cross-border passengers, respectively. Third, the quality of station and train services continued to improve. Comprehensive efforts were made in ticket purchase, waiting, boarding and alighting, transferring, and transportation connection services, enhancing information services, providing good "box lunches," serving priority passengers such as the elderly, young, sick, disabled, and pregnant women, strengthening civilized travel guidance, organizing rich and colorful station holiday cultural activities, and creating a joyful and harmonious travel atmosphere. Fourth, effective protection of key material transportation. The national railway system loaded 189,000 cars per day on average, with a total of 137 million tons of goods transported, effectively transporting key materials such as autumn grains, fertilizers, and holiday supplies, serving the people's holiday travel and the stable operation of the national economy, opening the China-Europe (Asia) trains and the Western Land-Sea New Channel trains, providing reliable support for smooth domestic and international dual circulation. Fifth, maintaining stable transportation security. Railway cadres and workers stayed on the front line of holiday transportation, making every effort to ensure transportation safety, dealing with extreme weather conditions such as Typhoon "Madeleine," strengthening the inspection, monitoring, and maintenance of line equipment, reinforcing the evacuation and guidance of large passenger flows, ensuring the safe passage of the railway arteries. This article is selected from the "China Railway" public account, GMTEight editor: Jiang Yuanhua.