At 3:40 a.m. on January 17, the outdoor temperature was only minus 9 degrees Celsius. In the darkness, the reporter went out of his house and went to Beijing West Railway Station for an interview. Platform 17 of Beijing West Railway Station, the first high-speed train g6737 of Beijing Spring Festival transportation stops here. At 5:15, the passengers quickly boarded the train with suitcases in hand. At 5:34, the train slowly left the platform and headed east of Handan. From this moment, China officially entered the annual "spring transportation time". The transportation department estimates that the number of passengers sent by the Spring Festival transportation in 2022 will reach 1.18 billion, an increase of 35.6% over the previous year. Strong confidence in transportation capacity At 10 a.m., the reporter came to the north entrance of Beijing railway station. At more than ten entrances, only a small number of passengers are lining up, without the crowds of spring transportation in previous years. Walking to the waiting hall on the second floor, some people put their luggage on the ground to sit and rest, some took out their mobile phones and videos of relatives and friends, and paid attention to keeping a safe distance from each other. "This year's Spring Festival train tickets are not difficult to buy, and the traffic is much less than in previous years." At the corner of the waiting hall, Mr. Wu, a passenger preparing to return to Zhengzhou, Henan Province, is waiting for the ticket check-in of t145 train. "My hometown requires to return home with a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours. I think it is very necessary, which is a safety guarantee for myself and others." With a ponytail on her head and a U-shaped pillow around her neck, Xiaotian, a college student who is preparing to take a bus back to Tianjin, told reporters that this is her first experience of Spring Festival transportation, and the ticket is surprisingly easy to buy. "I bought the ticket home last night. I don't need to grab the ticket in advance." How to ensure orderly passenger flow? Accurate delivery of transport capacity is the key. It is reported that during the Spring Festival transportation, according to the actual situation of passenger flow, China Railway Beijing Bureau Group Co., Ltd. adopts the echelon arrangement and accurate delivery mode, and plans to open 154.5 pairs of additional passenger trains. Zhu Wenzhong, deputy director of the passenger transport department of the State Railway Group, said that on the whole, the maximum daily seat supply capacity of this year's Spring Festival transportation can reach about 10.5 million, an increase of 10% over 2019. The passenger capacity can meet the travel needs of Spring Festival transportation passengers. Scientific and technological epidemic prevention is more reassuring This year's Spring Festival transportation is not only a test of transportation capacity, but also a "big test" of epidemic prevention and control. Therefore, a series of intelligent devices have appeared one after another. "The machine is working, please pay attention to your safety and wear a mask correctly..." in the hall on the first floor of Beijing railway station, a robot walking around is particularly eye-catching. The robot, about 140 centimeters tall, sprays outside while walking. It is one of the epidemic prevention "black technologies" of the Spring Festival transportation, and an intelligent atomization disinfection robot. Sun Haishen, deputy secretary of the Party committee of Beijing railway station, introduced that in the past, the stations were all killed manually, which took time and effort, and the spraying effect was not uniform. "Now with intelligent robots, the work efficiency is more than three times that of the original, which is labor-saving and environment-friendly." In order to avoid the problem of passengers getting together during the Spring Festival transportation period due to large passenger flow and slow manual verification of health codes, Beijing railway station has also added a "smart gateway" - epidemic prevention information self-service query equipment at the entrance. Before entering the waiting room, passengers "brush their faces" with their ID card or health code and complete face recognition, body temperature detection, health code query and nucleic acid detection certificate verification in just 3 to 5 seconds. "Now, relying on an ID card can enter the station in 'seconds', which not only saves the queuing time, but also makes my journey home safer and more convenient." Passenger Mr. Guo said with a smile. Convenient service warms people's hearts "Hello, which train do you want to take? Can I help you?" At 11 a.m., LAN Xuechun, a passenger of "Suping service group" in the hall on the first floor of Beijing railway station, found that a young mother anxiously checked the ticket information while holding her child. She hurried forward to ask. "It's more than an hour before your train leaves. Let's have a rest in our service room first." After learning about the passengers, LAN Xuechun took two passengers, one big and one small, into the service room. LAN Xuechun's "Suping service group" is a service group specially established by Beijing railway station to serve key passengers of "old, young, sick, disabled and pregnant". From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., LAN Xuechun had almost no rest time. It is roughly estimated that she has to walk more than 20000 steps between the waiting room and the platform every day. It is reported that during the Spring Festival transportation, Beijing station not only extended the time for ticket sales, refund and change service and reimbursement voucher collection, but also actively promoted convenient transfer in the station, improved passenger transfer efficiency, shortened passenger transfer time, and set up a "love exit". For tourists in need of help, volunteers were arranged to help actively to ensure that the "last kilometer" was unobstructed. "Although the number of Spring Festival passengers has decreased in the past two years, our service can't be discounted. We have to do better." LAN Xuechun told reporters that in order to meet the Spring Festival transportation, Beijing railway station has made sufficient preparations. Personnel at all posts perform their respective duties. There is no mistake in epidemic prevention and control and Spring Festival transportation guarantee. (outlook new era)