Safe travel over Spring Festival a priority
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Two migrant workers from Chongqing wait for a train home along with other passengers at a crowded railway station in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Tuesday. [Li Zhong / for China Daily] |
The Ministry of Transport has pledged to ensure travelers will enjoy safe and convenient journeys during the coming Spring Festival travel peak, a ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
"We will spare no efforts to guarantee the safety of passengers," He Jianzhong, who is also director of the ministry's policy and statute department, said at a news conference.
"The ministry has recently issued three directives to arrange and coordinate transport work during the travel peak of this Spring Festival, and six teams led by the minister or vice-ministers will start to inspect safety measures taken by local authorities from this Sunday."
Chinese tradition holds that people should return home and spend Spring Festival, otherwise known as Chinese New Year, with their families, leading to an annual travel rush that is the largest human migration in the world.
According to People's Daily, Chinese travelers made nearly 2.9 billion trips during the 2012 travel peak.
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