Today is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and it is also the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, and the return rush continues.
From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the number of passengers who choose to travel by train has increased from 5.5 million to about 15.3 million, maintaining growth every day.
Judging from today's heat map, the total number of rail trips will be basically the same as yesterday, and the number of arrivals in different cities has also increased or decreased, showing obvious differentiation. The places where the number of arrivals has increased significantly are concentrated in popular central cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xi'an, and Chengdu, which welcomed more tourists back during the return period. At the same time, there are 39 cities today compared with yesterday's arrival volume has dropped significantly, among these cities, there are Chongqing, Kunming, Shenyang, Suzhou these popular cities, but more Linfen, Xiaogan, Putian, Qujing and other third- and fourth-tier cities, these places in today's arrival volume is only half of yesterday's.
In terms of regional personnel flow, the cross-regional popular routes have increased significantly today, and the cross-regional flow of people has increased most significantly on several popular routes from Beijing to Shanghai, Nanning to Guangzhou, Wuhan to Shanghai, Wuhan to Shenzhen, Taiyuan to Beijing, and Wuhan to Guangzhou.
About a quarter of the routes have a load factor of more than 80%.
In terms of civil aviation, data from the air travel system shows that from the beginning of the Spring Festival to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the domestic passenger traffic of civil aviation in the country has exceeded 40 million. These two days have entered the peak of the return trip, according to the forecast of air ticketing, the number of passengers on domestic routes today will exceed 2 million, has exceeded the peak period of the previous year, about a quarter of the routes of the passenger load rate are more than eighty, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen and other first-tier cities, there are also Yongzhou, Baise, Enshi such as third- and fourth-tier cities. From the perspective of full seats, it mainly involves the departure routes of popular tourist cities, and the passenger load rate of 26 routes such as Sanya to Xiamen, Sanya to Jining, Haikou to Heze is almost full.
As of 20 o'clock on the 17th, 28 of the more than 260 airports in the country issued light fog, haze and rain weather warnings. Affected by the weather, some runways such as Shennongjia Hongping Airport and Tacheng Qianquan Airport are closed, and flight delays may occur.
The popularity of road travel during the Spring Festival is high, and the traffic increased by 20% year-on-year
According to the latest data monitoring by the Ministry of Transport, since Chinese New Year's Eve, the traffic on the road during the Spring Festival holiday has increased day by day, and by the sixth day of the first lunar month, the traffic on the road has more than doubled (111%) compared with the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. In seven days, 378 million cars were on the road, up 20 percent from the same period last year.
AutoNavi Map uses big data to monitor the popularity of cross-city travel from Chinese New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the new year. Guangzhou ranked first, and Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an, and Zhengzhou, four cities in the central and western regions, all entered the top 10.
The top 10 popular destination cities are mainly distributed in the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta and the Chengdu-Chongqing region, among which Guangzhou is not only the most popular departure point, but also everyone's favorite destination, and there are 4 cities in the Pearl River Delta that enter the top 10 destinations.
Big data prediction: there will be a peak of highway congestion this afternoon
On the last day of the return trip, congestion on the road is also worth paying special attention to. AutoNavi map data shows that although the return congestion is obvious from the sixth day of the new year, the most concentrated travel is still today (the eighth day of the new year), and the peak congestion period is from 14 to 19 o'clock.
According to the prediction of traffic flow big data, TransInfo Technology predicts that today's congestion is high in East China, South China, and Southwest China, among which Sichuan Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Hunan Province, and Guangdong Province are prone to congestion. There is a high possibility of congestion in the Hengyang section of the Xuguang Expressway, the Shanwei section of the Shenhai Expressway, the Yongzhou section of the Erguang Expressway, and the Taizhou section of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway.
Spring Festival movies continue to be hot
Today is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday and the last day of the 2024 movie Spring Festival file. As of 22:53 on February 16, the total box office (including pre-sale) of the 2024 Spring Festival stalls (February 10-February 17) exceeded 7.6 billion yuan. "Hot and Hot", "Flying Life 2" and "Bear Infested: Reversing Time and Space" are temporarily among the top three at the box office.
The data shows that the hottest cities in the film market are still major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing, but Weifang, Baoding, Nantong, Xuzhou and other cities have the largest box office growth during this year's Spring Festival compared with last year.
In addition, this Spring Festival has increased the subsidies and discounts for movie tickets, so far, the average ticket price of this year's Spring Festival movies is 50 yuan, a slight decrease from 52.3 yuan last year's Spring Festival. The sinking trend of the Spring Festival film market is obvious, with the box office share of third- and fourth-tier cities accounting for more than 54%, significantly higher than last year's 50%.