The 2017 Spring Festival travel will last for a total of 40 days from January 13th to February 21st. The 2017 Spring Festival travel was 11 days earlier than this year, making it the earliest in nearly five years.
According to preliminary predictions, the demand for Spring Festival travel in 2017 will continue to grow slightly, with a national passenger volume of 2.978 billion, an increase of 2.2% compared to this year. Among them, 2.52 billion people visited roads, an increase of 1%; 356 million railway passengers, an increase of 9.7%; 58.3 million people in civil aviation, an increase of 10%; Water transportation reached 43.5 million people, an increase of 2%. Due to next year's Spring Festival travel being 11 days earlier than this year, there will be overlapping passenger flows before the holiday. At the beginning of the Spring Festival travel rush, there will be holidays for universities and vocational schools, as well as a concentration of migrant workers returning to their hometowns. The flow of students and migrant workers will overlap, and the peak passenger flow will show characteristics of early arrival, long duration, and high peak. The opinion requires relevant departments to continuously improve their service level.
The national railway train schedule will be adjusted on January 5th next year, and a new schedule is currently being developed. At present, the pre-sale period of railway tickets on the Internet, mobile phones and telephones across the country has been adjusted from 60 days to 30 days, and the pre-sale period of stations, booking points and ticket vending machines has been adjusted from 58 days to 28 days. Since the railway department has not yet given a clear answer on how to adjust the pre-sale period of train tickets after the determination of the new train diagram, the sales of train tickets on the first day of the Spring Festival travel on January 13 next year will start on December 15, according to the current 30 day pre-sale period of train tickets on the Internet, mobile phones and telephones. Based on this calculation, the sales date of train tickets on January 23 (26th of the twelfth lunar month) next year is December 25; The sales date for train tickets on January 24th (December 27th) next year is December 26th; The train ticket sales date for January 25th (December 28th) next year is December 27th; The train ticket sales date for January 26th (December 29th) next year is December 28th; The train ticket sales date for January 27th (New Year's Eve) next year is December 29th.