From January to April, the number of passengers traveling by rail nationwide reached 1.46 billion, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%.

According to the official WeChat account of "China Railway," from January to April, the national railway transported 1.46 billion passengers, an increase of 5.9% compared to the same period last year, setting a new record. The railway department insists on the development ideology centered on the people, further strengthening the organization of passenger transportation, enriching passenger service products, improving service quality, and effectively ensuring safe, convenient, and warm travel for passengers. First, the passenger transport capacity has significantly increased. By coordinating the resources of routes, stations, and equipment, leveraging the operational advantages of high-speed rail network, tapping transportation potential in every possible way, introducing a batch of new 350 km/h high-speed Fuxing trains, dynamically grasping travel patterns, optimizing passenger train operating plans, timely increasing capacity supply in popular directions and sections, operating night high-speed trains on main routes during peak hours, and increasing the daily average number of passenger trains operated nationwide to 11,224, a 7.1% increase compared to last year. Maintaining the scale of conventional speed train operations, continuing to operate public service "slow trains" and "rural revitalization" trains, and meeting diverse travel needs of passengers. Second, upgrading the quality of tourism trains. Aligning closely with market demands for tourism sightseeing, eco-health, red-themed study tours, meticulously designing travel routes, promoting the opening of trains to tourist destinations, developing and introducing tourism trains suitable for aging passengers, linking up with hotels and scenic spots along the routes, expanding new consumption scenarios, such as the "Panda Express," "Yichun Express," "South of the Great River Express," and "Qilu No. 1" tourism trains connecting beautiful mountains, rivers, and historical sites. From January to April this year, a total of 367 tourism trains have been operated nationwide, a 23% increase compared to last year, effectively boosting the development of tourism and silver-haired economy. Carefully organizing cross-border passenger transportation, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail transported 10.17 million cross-border passengers, a 14.7% increase compared to last year, while the China-Laos railway transported 105,000 cross-border passengers, a 32.5% increase, and introduced international passenger trains between China and Mongolia and China and Russia to promote cross-border personnel exchanges and economic and trade exchanges. Third, continuously optimizing station and on-board services. Optimizing the functions of the railway 12306 system to ensure stable operation, implementing new ticketing systems like counted trips and periodic tickets on 70 routes, and enabling passengers to pay for rides with the third-generation social security cards in 8 stations of the Beijing-Tianjin intercity railway. Carefully organizing passenger boarding and alighting, dynamically increasing security checks, verification channels, ensuring basic services such as water supply, catering, and cleaning, strengthening guidance on civilized travel to create a warm and comfortable travel environment for passengers. Strengthening services for priority passengers such as the elderly, children, those with disabilities, and pregnant women, improving reservation and response efficiency, and introducing preferential measures for senior frequent travelers. Actively adapting to the country's overall relaxation and optimization of transit visa policies, providing convenience for foreign tourists, with a 32.1% increase in the number of foreign tourists traveling on national railways from January to April this year. This article is selected from the "China Railway" public account, translated by GMTEight, edited by Jiang Yuanhua.