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Spring Festival: Smooth journey home
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Millions of Chinese are on the move as the Spring Festival draws nearer. This year has seen more journeys made already. So far, trips home have been smooth, with no passengers being stranded thanks to effective measures taken by transportation departments at various levels.
It's the first year that China has adopted a pilot program of printing real names on tickets.
Guangzhou Railway Station is one of the test sites. It has prepared for any potential flaws in the system. To help those who happen to lose their ID cards, the station has opened a counter to make temporary ID documents.
Besides the real-name ticketing system, there are other ways to crack down on ticket scalpers from both inside and outside the station.
In Bengbu in the eastern province of Anhui, the railway station has added five cameras in the ticket office. Clerks who are found to take cash or cell phones into the booking office, will be fired.
In Wenzhou, in Zhejiang Province, police work has paid off. They caught two scalpers and seized 79 tickets.
In this year's Spring Festival travel peak, 32 million journeys will be made by sea. Many coastal provinces have geared up for that.
Yantai Port in Shandong Province has added several passenger vessels to meet the demand. Those vessels are huge. Each can carry up to 16 hundred passengers and 200 vehicles.
In Zhejiang Province, a helicopter for rescue missions is standing by at Zhoushan Airport, in case of any accidents at sea.
Xu Zhiwei, Official of East China Sea 1st Rescue Flying Team, said, "We used to be stationed at airports in Shanghai. In a mission, we had to stop over in Zhoushan to refuel. Now, we can save a lot of time. In an accident, time can be the difference between life and death."
To ensure passengers a happy and safe journey home, transportation authorities are indeed doing all they can.
