The reporter learned from China Railway Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Railway Group") that the railway Spring Festival travel rush in 2025 will start on January 14, 2025 and end on February 22, lasting for 40 days. The train tickets for the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush will be available for sale on December 31. The national railway is expected to send 510 million passengers. The peak passenger flow before the holiday is expected to be on January 25th (the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month), and the peak passenger flow after the holiday is expected to be on February 4th (the 7th day of the first lunar month). The person in charge of the Passenger Transport Department of China Railway Group Corporation stated that the overall passenger flow during the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush will steadily increase. Before the festival, there will be a combination of student flow, work flow, and family visit flow, resulting in a relatively concentrated passenger flow. After the festival, the passenger flow will be relatively flat. The railway department will adhere to the development concept centered on the people, fully implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Economic Work Conference, continue to deepen the supply side structural reform of railway transportation, deeply analyze the characteristics and trends of Spring Festival passenger flow, increase passenger transport capacity, optimize ticket sales organization, and ensure safe, orderly, and warm travel for the general public during the Spring Festival travel rush. One is to increase the investment in passenger transport capacity. Fully utilize the developed and improved high-speed railway network and modern railway network, especially make good use of the newly opened lines, stations, and newly configured high-speed train equipment in 2024, improve the accessibility and coverage of the railway network, and compile the Spring Festival travel train schedule based on the first quarter train schedule to further expand passenger transportation capacity. It is expected that a maximum of about 14100 passenger trains can be arranged before the holiday and a maximum of about 14200 passenger trains can be arranged after the holiday, with a year-on-year increase of 3.9% and 4.3% in passenger capacity. During peak hours of passenger flow, night high-speed trains will be added between cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou to Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanchang, and Beijing to Shenyang and Taiyuan. Fully utilize the big data of 12306 railway ticket purchasing, timely increase transportation capacity in popular directions, sections, and time periods, and achieve scientific matching between transportation capacity and travel demand. Maintain the scale of regular speed passenger trains, operate public welfare "slow trains" and "rural revitalization" passenger trains, and serve the diverse travel needs of passengers. The second is to optimize ticket sales service measures. Make good use of the functions of railway 12306 standby ticket purchase, online shop selection, start of sale reminder subscription, railway smooth travel code, etc., promote comprehensive digital passenger electronic invoice services, enrich the content of 12306 information services, further optimize the pre filling service of ticket purchase information, pilot the "automatic submission of ticket purchase orders by the system" function, and continuously improve the passenger ticket purchase experience. Launch the function of booking and purchasing tickets for students and migrant workers, optimize the rules for selling and verifying student discount tickets, and strive to ensure the travel of key groups. Scientifically formulate ticketing strategies, strengthen real-time monitoring of remaining tickets and standby orders, dynamically adjust the ticket allocation mechanism, take into account the supply of long-distance and short distance tickets, and maximize the protection of passenger travel needs. The third is to ensure the smooth operation of the ticketing system. To cope with the peak of ticket sales during the Spring Festival travel rush, the railway department has strengthened the resources of the 12306 ticketing system in advance, optimized resource allocation, expanded network bandwidth, expanded the cloud service capability for remaining ticket inquiries, strengthened security risk prevention and control measures, and further enhanced the ability to respond to large-scale concurrent access demands and network security protection. Conduct comprehensive health checks on the software and hardware facilities of the 12306 system, strengthen system operation and maintenance monitoring and network security management, conduct emergency drills for various unexpected situations, and improve emergency response efficiency. Adopting technological measures to prevent and curb malicious ticket grabbing behavior on third-party platforms, creating a fair and just ticketing environment, and fully ensuring the safe and stable operation of the railway ticket system. The person in charge stated that during the Spring Festival travel rush, passengers have a strong willingness to travel, with high concentration of passenger flow in popular areas and time periods. The contradiction between transportation capacity and demand is prominent, and there may be a shortage of tickets. Passengers can choose to travel during off peak hours, or use the railway 12306's backup ticketing, transfer, and purchase air rail intermodal products for travel. The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including mobile phone client) is the only official channel for China Railway to provide Internet ticketing services to the society. It is committed to providing fair, fair, warm and convenient ticketing services for passengers. It has never authorized any third-party platform to sell train tickets and handle train ticket related businesses. There are no additional charges such as ticket purchase acceleration package, ticket purchase membership fee, and seat selection fee. In case of ticket change or refund, it will be handled in strict accordance with the regulations, and at the same time, it will strictly protect the personal information security of passengers in accordance with the law. Please make sure to purchase tickets through the official railway channels, identify the 12306 official website and 12306 official APP, and confirm that the payee of the ticket payment is "China Railway Network Co., Ltd." to avoid not receiving the refund amount when refunding or changing tickets in the future. (New Society)