CCTV News: The 40-day Spring Festival travel rush officially kicked off on January 14, and the flow of tourists returning home, visiting relatives and travel continued to rise. Many places have launched care actions for the Spring Festival travel rush to provide services to travelers.

In Foshan, Guangdong, hundreds of "returning motorcycle riders" are lined up in an orderly manner under the guidance of staff, waiting for free return gift packs.

It is understood that the "Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal" expressway and the 2025 Jianeng Station along the National Highway, which has the most concentrated passenger flow in the Spring Festival travel rush, provides nearly 20 free services for people returning home and traveling during the Spring Festival travel rush.

The China Transportation Enterprise Management Association, in conjunction with highway-related enterprises such as Zhejiang, Hebei, Sichuan, Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, etc., set up offline warm service desks in some key toll stations and service areas, and provide New Year's lucky bag gift packages to provide common maintenance tools, emergency medicines, etc. for travelers in need.

According to the Ministry of Transport's forecast, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society will reach 9 billion during the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush. Judging from the travel structure, self-driving travel will remain the dominant position, with an estimated number of 7.2 billion people, accounting for about 80% of the cross-regional personnel flow in the whole society. The daily peak of highway traffic may hit a record high.

Liu Zhenguo, deputy director of the Comprehensive Transportation Research Center of the Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, introduced that the proportion of passenger flow during the Spring Festival travel rush is becoming more and more. They have made special considerations on the travel of tourists, such as the provision of tourism travel information, and on the process of self-driving travel. From the perspective of the Ministry of Transport, it also takes the improvement of new energy charging and discharging facilities on highways as a key livelihood matter in 2025. During the process, a series of measures have been taken to arrange charging and discharging facilities, as well as the convenience of charging and battery replacement. The airport has created "infectious customs clearance" for outbound luggage

Starting the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush, Fujian Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport has launched "infectious customs clearance" service for outbound luggage to reduce inspection links and effectively shorten the customs clearance time for outbound passengers.

On the morning of January 14, the customs X-ray machine for inspecting passengers' luggage was evacuated in the exit hall of Terminal T3 of Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport. Passengers can check in and check in after entering the lobby without going through customs inspection. After passing the border inspection, they can wait for boarding after a carry-on luggage security check.

One inspection, the collected images are used by multiple parties. Such innovative measures greatly improve the inspection efficiency, shorten the check-in time, and make travel for passengers more convenient.

In order to improve the efficiency of passengers during the Spring Festival travel rush, Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport recently joined hands with four local hotels to set up check-in and luggage check-in services to the hotel front desk. Hotel stayers can complete check-in and luggage check-in at the hotel reception desk for free.

It is understood that during the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush, Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport is expected to guarantee 22,100 transport flights, an average of 552 per day, and an estimated 3.2861 million passengers entering and leaving the port, a slight increase from 2024. Police robots are "on-job" to ensure the safety of the Spring Festival travel rush

The 2025 Spring Festival travel rush has begun. The reporter learned from China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. that the 2025 Yangtze River Delta Railway is expected to send 97 million passengers in 40 days of the Spring Festival travel rush in 2025, with an average daily passenger transport of 2.425 million, an increase of 5.1% year-on-year. At Nanjing South Station in Jiangsu, in order to better serve the Spring Festival travel rush, the police robot "Xiao'an" appeared on duty and played a role in emergency response, navigation and guidance, anti-fraud propaganda and other fields.

January 14 is the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush. The reporter saw in the waiting room of Nanjing South Station that the police robot "Xiao An" was assisting the police in a synchronous patrol. According to the police, "Xiao'an" can work continuously for more than 12 hours. In addition to emergency response, it can also patrol and avoid obstacles independently according to preset routes, and can quickly perceive, locate and call the police for dangerous sources such as fire sources.

In the waiting room, this police robot also assumes the responsibilities of intelligent guidance, safety publicity, voice dispersion, etc., and is not only a police assistant, but also a caring helper for passengers.