Recently, a number of netizens posted screenshots of the interface of the ticketing software, saying that on January 29, the train K4220 from Chengdu West to Beijing only needed 47 yuan for a hard seat ticket, and the relevant news rushed to the hot search on Weibo on the 20th, causing widespread attention.
Train fares from Chengdu to Beijing are as low as 47 yuan
12306 Response
Recently, a number of netizens posted screenshots of ticketing software, saying that on January 29, the hard seat ticket from Chengdu West to Beijing was discounted for only 47 yuan, and many netizens called it "so cheap". The train number is K4220, the starting station is Meishan Station, and the final station is Beijing Railway Station, and the whole journey takes 37 hours and 46 minutes.
The 12306 customer service staff responded to the media that this train was temporarily added during the Spring Festival, because the train returned to Beijing from Chengdu, so the preferential fare was implemented.
12306 shows that the hard seat ticket for the train is 47 yuan, but the hard sleeper and soft sleeper tickets are not discounted, the price of the hard sleeper upper berth ticket is 414 yuan, and the soft sleeper upper berth ticket is sold for 654 yuan. Other express trains from Chengdu West Railway Station to Beijing Railway Station do not have discounted tickets, and the price of a hard seat is 236 yuan, the price of a hard sleeper is 399 yuan, and the price of a soft sleeper is 629 yuan.
On January 20, a screenshot of some trains from Chengdu West to Beijing on 12306
The minimum speed of the Spring Festival train ticket is two folds
The minimum 3% off the bullet train
In terms of railways, it is expected to send 480 million passengers during the Spring Festival this year. According to Huang Xin, director of the passenger transport department of China Railway Group, the railway sends an average of 12 million passengers per day, an increase of 37.9% compared with the Spring Festival transportation in 2023 and an increase of 18% compared with the Spring Festival transportation in 2019.
A few days ago, the 2024 National Spring Festival TV and Telephone Conference was held, according to reports, during the Spring Festival, the national railway will enable the Spring Festival train schedule, and adopt additional temporary passenger trains, re-linked train sets, night high-speed rail trains, etc., to increase capacity in areas where passenger flow is concentrated, tense directions and peak hours. At the same time, we will increase the discount of fares, with a minimum of two discounts for ordinary speed trains and three discounts for EMUs.
Source: Jiangxi released a comprehensive China Economic Net WeChat, Economic Daily, CCTV news client, Jimu News, netizen comments, etc