China will take multiple measures to ensure smooth travels during this year's Spring Festival, said China's top economic planner on Wednesday.
About three billion trips are expected to be made during the 2020 Spring Festival travel rush between Jan 10 and Feb 18, according to a document on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission.
The number of road trips is expected to reach 2.43 billion, a 1.2-percent decrease from the previous year, while train trips may hit 440 million, up 8 percent year-on-year.
About 79 million trips are predicted to be made by air, rising 8.4 percent year-on-year, and waterway trips will reach 45 million, increasing by 9.6 percent.
Efforts should be made to enhance transportation capability, including making full use of new rail tracks and putting more additional flights into operation, said the document.
Local transport departments should enhance coordination of subways, urban public buses and taxis with railway transport and civil aviation as well as dealing with traffic jams, extreme weather and safety hazards.
Meanwhile, online ticket booking systems will be upgraded to increase the ticket selling capacity and authorities will further popularize e-tickets.
The Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, falls on Jan 25 this year.
In the meantime, China's Ministry of Public Security on Dec 25 unveiled measures to guarantee safe and smooth transport during the upcoming travel rush for the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The ministry has asked police departments across the country to clear hazards of law violations by strictly controlling high-risk vehicles, as well as dealing with speeding, overloading and driving under fatigue.
The ministry will ban vehicles that do not meet safety specifications or drivers who have lost all 12 demerit points of their license from going on road during the period.
To ensure smooth traffic, police departments will pay more attention to high-risk road sections that are steep or with sharp turns and fog-prone.
The ministry will also join hands with other departments to ease traffic congestion.
