Hi everyone. I’m Stephanie LI. Coming up on today’s program. New Year’s Day holidays see spike in train ticket booking as residents embrace winter travel rush; Emergency response mechanism has been launched to ensure aid to a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Gansu province. Here’s what you need to know about China in the past 24 hours  Train tickets for the first day of the upcoming New Year's Day holidays went on sale on Saturday, with some popular routes sold out within seconds, data from online travel platforms showed. China's major railway ticket booking platform 12306 showed that, as of 15:00 p.m. on Sunday, tickets for a number of trains are sold out, including those departing from Beijing to Wuhan, Nanjing to Hefei, Hangzhou, Chengdu to Chongqing, and Xi'an. Data from Chinese travel agency Ctrip showed on the first day of the holiday, tickets for short-distance travel in urban areas such as Beijing to Tianjin, Shanghai to Nanjing, Shenzhen, Guangdong province to Guangzhou, and Chongqing to Chengdu are in high demand. The travel demand is mainly to visit relatives. This year's New Year's Day holidays extends from December 30, 2023, to January 1, 2024. In terms of hotel booking, home stays and hotel rooms for New Year's Eve are popular choices for tourists. Data from travel portal Qunar showed hotel rooms for Dec 31 - Jan 1 in Harbin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing, especially those in luxury hotels, have higher bookings. Tickets for Universal Beijing Resort, Disneyland in Shanghai and Hong Kong, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, Guangdong province and Harbin Ice and Snow World are rapidly booking out in advance. In addition, Tongcheng Travel's data also showed that the popularity of domestic islands travel on its platform for the New Year's Day holidays increased by 72 percent year-on-year, and the popularity of Southeast Asian islands travel increased by three times year-on-year. The New Year's Day holidays is a traditional golden season for consumption. According to an analysis by the Tongcheng Research Institute, the combination of family visits and tourism during the upcoming holidays, coupled with the popularity of "ice and snow" tourism, is expected to increase traffic on high-speed rail routes from cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Zhengzhou to popular winter destinations including Harbin, Shenyang, Urumqi, and Hulun Buir. Additionally, there is anticipated high demand for dedicated "ski trains" from Beijing to Zhangjiakou in North China's Hebei Province during the holiday period, Tongcheng said. An earlier report released by Tongcheng showed that travel enthusiasm for the New Year's Day holidays has seen a year-on-year increase of 465 percent in the seven days leading up to Monday. Per data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday, the service industry experienced rapid growth in November, as year-on-year growth of the national service industry production index came in at 9.3 percent, accelerating 1.6 percentage points compared to the previous month. Over 100 people have been confirmed dead after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake with a hypocenter depth of 10 kilometers struck Jishishan county, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, in China's northwestern Gansu province at 11:59 p.m. yesterday. The National Development and Reform Commission has launched the emergency response mechanism and taken timely measures to ensure stable supply of energy, electricity and essential materials in response to the quake. The ministries of emergency management and finance have allocated 200 million yuan to Gansu and Qinghai to help disaster relief operations in jolt-stricken areas in the two provinces, according to a media release from the Ministry of Emergency Management.   Below-average temperatures will continue across the country this week due to the lingering effects of a cold wave that will affect the country's transportation system, heating supplies and agriculture. The Chin