Home>News Center>China
       
 

Spring Festival peak travel jams railways
By Cao Desheng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-26 01:30

The nation's rail bottleneck is back in the limelight again as the peak Lunar New Year travel season started yesterday.

Passengers wait for trains at a railway station in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province on January 25, 2005. [newsphoto]
The railway network can only adequately handle 2.74 million passengers per day on average, 890,000 fewer people than the estimated daily number of passengers traveling each day during the holidays, railway Vice-Minister Hu Yadong said during a news conference in Beijing yesterday.

The numerical gap might widento as many as 1.76 million people atpeak periods, Hu added.

According to estimates from Hu's ministry, in the next 40 days, around 145 million people are expected to travel by rail for family reunions over the festival, which begins on February 9 this year.

The travel deluge is expected to hit peaks on February 4-6, 15-17 and 25-28, when migrant workers and college students and others will flock to train stations for holiday trips back home.

A large number of people prefer trains because of their economy and safety.

The annual exodus has begun early in many major cities, where officials have organized special,low-priced trains to take migrant workers and students out of town in advance of the huge human throngs expected later.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Railways has ordered 15 to 20 per centin train ticket price increases for the third straight year to control passenger volumes over the holidays.

However, demand is expected to stay high and many cities have scrambled to add trains to their networks to keep pace.

Some 260 pairs of temporary trains have been added to transport passengers, bringing the number of trains running on the railways to 646 pairs across the country,the ministry indicated.

Buying a rail ticket has become a difficult task, with long lines snaking from ticket booths, as people shiver in the cold.

Wang Min, director-general of the railway ministry's planning department,attributes the headaches to existing railway bottlenecks.

"The inadequate railway capacity fails to meet the demands of intensive passenger flows, which leads to passenger competition for tickets," Wang said.

The problem faced in peak travel periods each year lies in the fact that the development of railways lags far behind the nation's economic growth, he added.

The Ministry of Railways is working to attract additional investmentin to the sector to expand the railways, including foreign and private capital, Wang said.

Currently, the nation's railway construction is financed by the central government and local governments."Market access will be widened to enterprises to encourage them to invest their capital into railway projects," Wang said.

Besides rail transport, the number of road and aviation passenger trips are also estimated to rise 3.5 per cent to 1.79 billion and 12.5 per cent to12.6 million compared with the same period last year.



 
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

FBI says Boston terror threat a false alarm

 

   
 

Beijing: Cross-Straits situation remains grave

 

   
 

Spring Festival peak travel jams railways

 

   
 

China's economy grows 9.5% in 2004

 

   
 

Migrant proposal sparks hot debate

 

   
 

China step up efforts to gird for bird flu

 

   
  Nation backs ASEAN disaster alert plan
   
  Twists and turns on the long journey home
   
  Freed hostages leave Amman for home
   
  Migrant proposal sparks hot debate
   
  Australia, China share green product labelling
   
  Four facing prison in bribery conspiracy
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
Heading home for Spring Festival
   
Speeding up railway reform
   
Japanese minister touts Shinkansen in Beijing
   
Japan touts high-speed rail caliber
   
US$12b to be invested in railway construction
   
US$12b to be invested in railway construction
   
RMB100 billion to be invested in railway construction
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲综合男人的天堂色婷婷| 中文字幕日韩一区二区不卡| 免费A级毛片无码久久版| 又黄又爽免费视频| 国产女主播一区| 欧美国产日本高清不卡| 欧美日韩国产综合视频一区二区三区 | 久久国产精品免费网站| 亚洲国产精品尤物yw在线观看| 亚洲欧美日韩中文字幕一区二区三区 | 欧美变态老妇重口与另类| 激情久久av一区av二区av三区 | 丁香六月激情综合| 99视频精品全国在线观看| youjizz亚洲| 老师你好电影高清完整版在线观看 | 一级人做人a爰免费视频| 97久久精品无码一区二区天美| 91精品视频免费| 精品国产柚木在线观看| 欧美多人野外伦交| 成年性香蕉漫画在线观看| 国内自产拍自a免费毛片| 国产精品亚洲综合一区在线观看| 国产女同疯狂摩擦系列1| 国产av激情无码久久| 兽皇videos极品另类| 亚洲精品亚洲人成人网| 久久精品久噜噜噜久久| hdmaturetube熟女xx视频韩国| 黑人巨大videos极度另类| 白白的肥岳嗷嗷叫| 韩国电影禁止的爱善良的小子hd| 国产卡一卡二卡3卡4卡无卡视频 | 一级片在线播放| 亚洲娇小性xxxx色| 玖玖爱zh综合伊人久久| 精品人妻少妇一区二区三区| 欧美成人高清手机在线视频| 日韩电影中文字幕| 婷婷开心中文字幕|