The National Day holiday period brings pleasant autumn weather, creating ideal conditions for travel. However, without a solid foundation of safety, all travel plans become meaningless. The Ministry of Transport recently issued a comprehensive notice regarding transportation safety and service guarantees during the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, coordinating nationwide efforts to manage holiday transportation effectively.
Holiday periods represent peak travel times and critical moments for ensuring transportation safety. This year's combined National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival creates an extended 8-day holiday, with overlapping demand from tourists, family visitors, and student travelers, resulting in highly concentrated travel during the beginning and end of the period. The holiday transportation period spans 12 days from September 29 to October 10, with national railways expected to serve 219 million passengers.
During these crucial moments, responsible action becomes paramount. Facing massive passenger and vehicle flows, local authorities must address significant pressures in maintaining traffic order, preventing accident risks, and ensuring smooth traffic flow. Transportation management tasks are both complex and challenging. Relevant departments must prepare contingency plans in advance, allocate transportation capacity scientifically, and implement safety responsibilities to ensure safe and convenient public travel while maintaining orderly transportation of essential goods.
Addressing key challenges requires scientific planning and proactive measures. The notice mandates that local transportation departments implement enhanced oversight for 13 categories of major risk sources, including passenger vehicles, hazardous material transport, high-risk road sections, bridges, and waterway passenger services. This includes strengthening safety supervision of tour boats and passenger vessels, preventing collision risks between commercial and fishing vessels, and enhancing port operations, waterway safety, and construction project oversight. Strict prevention of overloading in buses and freight vehicles is essential to avoid potential accident risks. Simultaneously, strengthened source control over passenger and freight transport companies is necessary, ensuring they fulfill their territorial responsibilities.
Preparation leads to success, while lack of preparation leads to failure. New situations and challenges require forward-thinking strategies. Local authorities should deploy robust measures in advance to address challenges from large passenger and vehicle flows. For instance, responding to the increasing number of new energy vehicles, the notice requires comprehensive measures including additional charging parking spaces, high-power fast charging equipment, and mobile charging facilities to enhance service area charging capabilities. Publishing charging information through navigation maps and mobile applications provides guidance services, while scientifically optimizing charging queue management ensures orderly charging processes and smooth, safe highway operations.
Ensuring holiday transportation safety requires each individual to take responsibility as their own primary safety guardian. Drivers must avoid speeding and fatigue, and absolutely refrain from drunk driving. No one should abandon safety awareness or remain complacent, take risks, or act recklessly.
Guaranteeing that people travel happily and return home safely requires transportation management departments to maintain vigilance regarding safety, supported by collective efforts from all traffic participants. The National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival represent precious time for travel and family reunions, and transportation service guarantees must make this vision a reality. From comprehensive planning to road management, from capacity allocation to service optimization, from emergency response to severe weather preparedness, every aspect requires careful attention. Through collective efforts, the public can experience safe and smooth travel, making their journeys beautiful memories.
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