6.7 billion self driving trips in 40 days of Spring Festival travel, accounting for about 80% of the total trips

On March 8, china.com.cn reported that the second "ministerial channel" intensive interview activity of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress was held on the morning of the 8th. Li Xiaopeng, Minister of Transport, said in an interview with the media that the flow of people during the Spring Festival travel this year hit a record high in the same period, and the total flow of people across regions in the whole society reached 8.42 billion, an increase of 9.8% over the same period last year. Among them, the number of self driving trips reached 6.7 billion, accounting for about 80% of the total number of trips, becoming the main force of travel.

The following is a transcript:

Li Xiaopeng, Minister of the Ministry of Transport, was interviewed by the media (photographed by Lun Xiaoxuan on www.china.com.cn)

reporter:

On March 5, the Spring Festival has just ended. We would like to ask the minister, what is the turnover of this year's Spring Festival? What are the characteristics of this year's Spring Festival travel? thank you.

Li Xiaopeng:

Thank you, Dagong Media, for your attention to the Spring Festival travel. As we all know, the Spring Festival transportation has just ended. This year's Spring Festival transportation starts on January 26 and ends on March 5, a total of 40 days, as in previous years. Different from previous years, it has the following characteristics:

First of all, the flow of people hit a record high in the same period. In 40 days, the total flow of people across regions in the whole society reached 8.42 billion, 9.8% higher than the same period last year, and 7.1% higher than the same period in 2019 before the epidemic. This number is a new high in the history of the same period.

The second characteristic is that self driving travel has become the main force of travel. In 40 days, self driving travel has reached 6.7 billion person times, accounting for about 80% of the total travel. Journalist friends may ask, how do those 20% travel? About 20% of this is through buying tickets, getting on the train, getting on the bus, getting on the plane, getting on the ship, which is called "commercial passenger volume" in our professional terms.

The third feature is to actively respond to bad weather. During the Spring Festival travel, the eight day holiday during the Spring Festival, the overall weather is good, which is conducive to travel. But before and after the Spring Festival, we encountered two rounds of severe weather, such as freezing rain and snow, cold waves of low temperature, and so on. The two rounds together have 20 days, which has brought inconvenience to the travel of local people. With the joint efforts of all of us, we worked hard to overcome the problem and maintained stability on the whole.