The curtain of the 2026 Spring Festival travel rush has already begun, and the total number of cross regional personnel movements in the whole society is expected to reach 9.5 billion. As of February 9th, Railway 12306 (including websites, clients, etc.) has sold over 170 million train tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush. This world's largest population migration has shed the congestion and hardships of the past, and has become an important window for observing the development of the times with a diverse, convenient, and warm new attitude. Every subtle change is engraved with the imprint of national progress and highlights the warmth of improving people's livelihoods. Behind the "new changes" during the Spring Festival travel rush is the continuous efforts in infrastructure construction and the iterative upgrading of the transportation system. Based on the needs of people's livelihoods, various regions continue to improve their transportation networks. The "Eight Verticals and Eight Horizontals" high-speed railway network continues to be strengthened, with over 50000 kilometers of steel rails connecting homes and distant places, making the vision of "returning a thousand miles of hometown in a day" a norm; 71500 charging stations are deployed in urban and rural areas, achieving optimization from "finding stations" to intelligent "chasing stations", and providing support for 380 million new energy vehicles during the Spring Festival travel rush. The comprehensive improvement of transportation capacity has solved the difficulties of "difficult to obtain tickets" and "difficult to travel" in the past. With solid infrastructure strength, it has laid a solid foundation for the smooth operation of the Spring Festival travel rush, demonstrating the solid confidence of national development. The deep cultivation and meticulous work of refined services is the distinctive background of the changes during the Spring Festival travel rush, and it is also a vivid practice of the people-oriented development concept. The railway department continues to optimize its service measures, with the 12306 platform providing convenient operations for fingertip ticket purchasing, refunds, and changes. It also offers services such as free refunds for delayed purchases, telephone booking for the elderly, and appointment booking for migrant workers, catering to the travel needs of different groups; The expansion of "silent carriages", facial recognition for entering stations, and one click ordering of meals and other digital services have been implemented, making the journey leap from "can walk" to "walk well" and "walk warmly". These measures abandon extensive services, focus on the urgent needs and concerns of the masses, and use details to warm up the atmosphere, making the Spring Festival travel rush more happy and demonstrating the warmth of people's livelihood in the development of the times. The innovation of the logistics system and the upgrading of the concept of reunion have injected new connotations into the changes of the Spring Festival travel rush, reflecting the vigorous vitality of the social economy. The "Express Delivery into Villages" policy has been fully implemented, and companies such as China Post, SF Express, and JD.com adhere to the principle of "never closing during the Spring Festival", allowing former woven bags and plastic buckets to retire with honor and allowing travelers to travel with light bags; The "reverse Spring Festival travel rush" is becoming increasingly normalized, as parents rush to their children's work cities for the Chinese New Year. This not only optimizes the allocation of transportation resources and avoids the waste of transportation caused by one-way passenger flow, but also drives the growth of urban catering, tourism and other consumption, injecting new vitality into the consumer market and realizing the two-way empowerment of people's livelihood convenience and economic development. The "changes" during the Spring Festival travel rush are the iterative upgrading of travel modes, service levels, and consumption patterns; The 'unchanging' nature of the Spring Festival travel rush is the Chinese people's eternal commitment to reunion and deep affection for family. As the golden saying goes, "The mobile Spring Festival travel rush hides unchanging warmth; the changing journey reflects the advancing era." From the invisibility of motorcycle queues to high-speed trains, from bulky luggage to light and easy handling, from long ticket queues to fingertip operations, every change in Spring Festival travel rush is a concentrated reflection of the country's comprehensive strength, technological level, and people's well-being, and a vivid interpretation of the steady progress of the times. The new changes during the Spring Festival travel rush are not only the butterfly changes of billions of travelers returning home, but also a microcosm of the development of the times. It witnesses the improvement of infrastructure, the upgrading of services, the vitality of the economy, and carries the expectations of people's livelihoods and the warmth of the nation. Only by continuously cultivating people's livelihoods and bravely moving forward can the changes of the Spring Festival travel rush be more powerful and the development of the times be more warm. (New Society)