Nearest holiday
Labor
Coming soon
May 1 to May 5
Holidays and holidays
A total of 5 days
Sunday, April 28
Saturday, May 11
Work
Take a 5-day long vacation
Where are you going?
According to the rules for the sale of railway tickets
Tickets for May 1 go on sale today
Let's book a ticket at a good time↓
Calendar in hand
What else should I look out for?
I want to increase the success rate of ticket purchases
Then look down
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Set up ticket purchase alerts
The pre-sale period of train tickets is 15 days, in order to prevent you from missing the starting time, the railway 12306 App marks the time outside the pre-sale period with the word "reminder", click "set reminder" to set an alarm clock reminder in the mobile phone calendar.
Improve the success rate of waitlist ticket purchases
Question 01
How to "place an order" for standby tickets?
Open the ticket purchase interface of the Railway 12306 App, click on the word "Standby", and you can choose to add different seats and train numbers according to your needs.
Question 02
How many orders can I fill in for standby ticket purchase?
Each passenger can submit a waitlist of 6 pending orders, and can choose any 3 travel dates during the pre-sale period, and can select a maximum of 60 combinations of "date + train" in total, and each train can choose multiple seats. A maximum of 9 passengers can be added per order.
Question 03
What is the waitlist cut-off time?
At present, the cut-off time for standby orders is 20 minutes before departure, and passengers can choose to modify the cut-off time according to the actual situation. When the waitlist order is successfully cashed, the redemption fails, or the order is automatically refunded, the notification message will be pushed through the notification channel selected by the user (SMS, WeChat, or Alipay).
Temporary proof of identity
Open the railway 12306 App, find the "temporary identity certificate" in "My" and submit it according to the prompts, wait for the railway public security organ to review it, and the electronic license generated after passing can be used when traveling on the railway. Reminder: Each person can apply 6 times in a calendar month.
Attention!
Passengers who have not successfully applied for electronic temporary travel identity certificates
Please go to the public security card counter at the station
Apply for a paper temporary identification certificate
Discounted tickets for children
Children over the age of 6 and under 14 who are travelling with an adult should purchase a child discount ticket, and a full-price ticket if they are at least 14 years old. Each adult passenger with a ticket can bring one child under the age of 6 who does not occupy a separate seat for free. The age of the child is calculated based on the date of travel.
When a traveler buys a train ticket
Be sure to use these official ticketing channels
Railroad 12306 website
（ www.12306.cn ）
Railway 12306App
Station ticket window
Self-service ticket vending machines
Attention to those who plan to travel by car!
During the Labor Day and National Day holidays
The highway is free of charge
According to the notice issued by the State Council on the implementation plan for the exemption of tolls for small passenger cars on major holidays of the Ministry of Transport and other departments (Guo Fa [2012] No. 37), the time frame for free passage of toll roads is four national statutory holidays such as the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day and National Day.
Where are you going to go during the holidays?
Come to the comment area to share~
Source: China Railway, Railway 12306