As of 9 o'clock on September 26, the railway department has sold a total of 69.67 million tickets for the National Day holiday transportation from September 29 to October 8, and the railway 12306 system is running smoothly.
From the perspective of train ticket pre-sales, the popular departure cities during the National Day Golden Week transportation period are mainly Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Nanjing, and Changsha; The most popular cities to arrive at are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Nanjing, and Changsha. Chengdu to Xi'an, Beijing to Shanghai, Beijing to Shenyang, Guangzhou to Nanning, Guangzhou to Zhanjiang, Beijing to Hohhot, Guangzhou to Shantou, Shanghai to Wuhan, Beijing to Taiyuan, Dalian to Shenyang and other popular areas are relatively concentrated.
During the pre-holiday peak period from September 29th to October 1st, some trains from Beijing to Tianjin, Shenzhen to Hong Kong, Suzhou to Shanghai, Nanjing to Shanghai, Baoding to Beijing, Datong to Beijing, Beijing to Shanghai and other directions still have remaining tickets; During the peak return period after the holiday from October 6th to 8th, there are still remaining tickets for some trains in the directions of Beijing to Tianjin, Shanghai to Nanjing, Shenzhen to Hong Kong, Guangzhou to Nanning, Beijing to Shanghai, Chengdu to Chongqing, Shanghai to Xuzhou and other directions; During the mid-festival period from October 2nd to 5th, the remaining tickets in all directions are relatively sufficient; From September 26 to 28, the remaining tickets for all parties were basically sufficient.
During the National Day Golden Week, tourists have a strong willingness to travel, and the flow of tourism, family visits, and students is intertwined and superimposed, and the passenger flow in some periods and sections is highly concentrated, and the contradiction between railway capacity and demand is very prominent. The railway department takes into account the travel needs of long-distance and short-distance passengers, and gives priority to long-distance passengers who take the train from the departure station to the terminal station in the ticket amount of long-distance trains; Strengthen the real-time monitoring of ticket amounts, dynamically adjust ticket amounts according to changes in passenger demand, and automatically transfer part of the ticket amounts to stations along the route in different time periods, and strive to meet the needs of short-distance passengers for ticket purchase. At the same time, actively increase the short-distance trains, increase the supply of short-distance capacity, from September 29 to October 1 during the peak travel period, the railway department arranged to open more Baoji to Xi'an, Chengdu to Luzhou, Hankou to Yichang, Dali to Xi'an and other directions of a number of short and medium-distance passenger trains, please pay attention to the relevant information in time, the first time to buy tickets.
For passengers who have not bought their favorite train tickets for the time being, the railway department suggests that they can travel off-peak, and the remaining tickets are sufficient during non-peak travel hours; You can also use the railway 12306 standby ticket purchase function, you can select up to 60 combinations of "date + train", and the temporarily added passenger train seats and the seats generated by the refund will be given priority to the passengers who submit the waitlist order, which can improve the success rate of ticket purchase, and the standby ticket purchase does not have any additional fees other than the fare; If there is no ticket for the direct train, you can use the same train connection, intermediate transfer, purchase connecting ticket, etc.
The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including mobile phone client) is the only official train ticket online ticketing platform of China Railway, which is committed to providing fair, just, safe and convenient ticketing and travel services for the majority of passengers, without any additional charges such as ticket purchase acceleration packages, ticket purchase membership fees, and carriage seat selection fees. Please be sure to purchase tickets through the official channels of the railway, look for the official website of 12306 and the official APP of "Railway 12306", and confirm that the payee of the ticket is "China Railway Network Co., Ltd.", so as to avoid not receiving the refund when you need to refund or change the ticket in the future.
(Source: China Railway WeChat official account)