On February 10th (the 32nd day of Spring Festival travel rush, the 17th day of the first lunar month), the national railways, roads, waterways and civil aviation sent 12.577 million passengers, which was 84.8% lower than that of Spring Festival travel rush last year and 1.7% lower than that of yesterday.

　　Among them, the railway sent 1.251 million passengers, down 89.1% year-on-year and 21.5% quarter-on-quarter; The road sent 11.06 million passengers, down 83.9% year-on-year and up 12.7% quarter-on-quarter; The waterway sent 56,100 passengers, down 93.3% year-on-year and 9.2% quarter-on-quarter; Civil aviation sent 210,000 passengers, down 89.0% year-on-year and 41.7% quarter-on-quarter.

　　On February 11th, at the press conference of the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism for novel coronavirus’s pneumonia epidemic, Xu Yahua, director of the Transportation Services Department of the Ministry of Transport, said that according to the monitoring and analysis of big data, from now until the end of Spring Festival travel rush, that is, until February 18th, it is estimated that 160 million people in China will return to their posts one after another.

　　According to statistics, in the first 32 days of Spring Festival travel rush (January 10th-February 10th), the national railways, roads, waterways and civil aviation sent a total of 1.378 billion passengers, a decrease of 43.1% compared with the same period of last year. Among them, the railway sent 203 million passengers, down 36.7%; 1.121 billion passengers were sent by road, down by 44.1%; The waterway sent 16.499 million passengers, a decrease of 51.6%; Civil aviation sent 37.08 million passengers, down 36.5%.

　　Xu Yahua said that during the return trip to Spring Festival travel rush, the Ministry of Communications will strictly control the passenger load factor of transportation, and the passenger load factor of long-distance passenger buses, liners and migrant workers’ chartered cars should not exceed 50% during Spring Festival travel rush, creating conditions for passengers to sit in separate seats, sit scattered and set up observation areas on the way in transportation.

　　At the same time, the transportation department will do a good job in the registration and traceability of passenger information, collect the identity information and contact telephone numbers of road and waterway passengers, and hand them over to the health department after classification and collection by shift.

　　In terms of restoring road passenger transport services, affected by the epidemic, public transport services in 27 provinces and 428 cities across the country were suspended before, and now the public transport services in these cities have been restored one after another. As of February 10th, the public transportation in 20 prefecture-level cities and 18 county-level cities in China has resumed operation one after another, and the rail transit in Changchun and other cities has gradually resumed operation.

　　The Ministry of Transport has made it clear that during the epidemic prevention and control period, protective clothing, masks, kits, disinfectant, thermometers and other epidemic prevention supplies, daily necessities such as grain, oil, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables, as well as coal, oil and gas energy will be integrated into the scope of emergency transportation, and the green passage policy will be implemented to ensure priority and convenient passage.

　　At the same time, drivers and passengers who are engaged in road and waterway passenger transport and have not entered Wuhan City do not need to take measures of isolation for 14 days after their body temperature tests meet the requirements, so as to fully guarantee the supply and transportation of all kinds of materials needed for people’s daily life.