2021 Spring Festival travel rush officially kicks off in China

This year, the 40-day long Spring Festival travel rush officially kicked off on Jan. 28, 2021. According to China's Ministry of Transport, the country will send about 1.152 billion passengers during the Spring Festival travel season in 2021. Pandemic prevention and control is the top priority in this year's Spring Festival transport work. In response, the relevant department adjusted the refund policy, adopted various "non-contact" technologies, and strengthened the protection of front-line staff members.

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2021 shows that passengers receive a small gift of Chinese character "Fu" from the staff, representing "fortune" and "good luck". (Sun Wentan/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2021 shows passengers exiting the Bozhou Railway Station in east China's Anhui Province. (Liu Qinli/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2021 shows that voluteers disinfect the parked buses at the bus station in Deqing County, Huzhou City, east Chinas' Zhejiang Province. (Wang Zheng/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2021 shows passengers waiting for the train at the Qinhuangdao Railway Station, north China's Hebei Province. (Cao Jianxiong/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on Jan. 27, 2021 shows passengers undergoing temperature monitoring and showing their health code at Nanjing Railway Station, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Nanjing Railway Station)

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2021 shows staff members checking passengers' travelling record at the Donghai County Automobile Passenger Terminal in Lianyungang City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Zhang Kaihu/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on Jan. 27, 2021 shows that the EMU trains stop by the station in Nanjing City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Su Yang/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2021 shows staff members checking passengers' nucleic acid test result at the Handan Railway Station in north China's Hebei Province. (Hao Qunying/Guangming Picture)