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Train tickets for the May Day holiday have gone on sale, and some third-party platforms have launched paid ticket-grabbing services, selling products such as "acceleration packages", claiming that they can buy tickets first. There are voices on the Internet that third-party platforms use technology to snatch away tickets, and then sell them to users at a higher price through acceleration packages.
In this regard, the 12306 customer service said that the railway department did not authorize any third-party software to purchase tickets, and if there is no ticket on the official website, there is no ticket on the third-party platform. The ticket-grabbing function provided by the third-party platform to the user is equivalent to the passenger entrusting the information to the third-party platform, and the third-party platform takes the passenger's information to 12306 for standby.
"The third-party platform also places a little more waitlist order and waits in advance. Passengers can place a little more waitlist orders and add more trains, and the probability of waiting and ticketing will be a little higher. 12306 customer service said.
Another 12306 customer service responded that without explaining the behavior of the third-party platform, all users do not have the priority to purchase tickets, and there is no way for users to purchase tickets in any "acceleration package" purchased on the third-party platform. If no tickets are bought, the user can place a standby order, and the railway department will honor the order in which the user submits the order.
The 12306 customer service said that the railway department will take technical means and other means to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of passengers and the normal ticketing order, and will also implement monitoring and big data analysis according to the 12306 system.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the construction task of mainland railways is still very heavy, with a scale of 3.19 trillion yuan in construction and approved projects.
Current status of rail passenger transport
The construction of the high-speed railway network has greatly expanded China's railway passenger capacity, greatly reduced the time and space distance between cities, and brought great convenience to people's travel. From the perspective of the total proportion of mainland passenger transport, in 2020, railway passenger traffic accounted for 22.9% of the national transport passenger traffic (road, railway, water transport, civil aviation), ranking second only after road passenger transport, indicating that the importance of mainland railway passenger transport is very high.
From the perspective of the operating mileage of the mainland railway, from 2013 to 2020, the number of railway operation history in the country showed a trend year by year. In 2020, the operating mileage of railways nationwide reached 146,300 kilometers, of which 38,000 kilometers were high-speed railways, with a double-track rate of 61.6% and an electrification rate of 74.9%.
Industry panorama analysis
The upstream, midstream and downstream industrial chain of the railway rolling stock and EMU manufacturing industry involves many enterprises. The upstream supply chain enterprises mainly include China General Number, Kangni Electromechanical, Huatie Co., Ltd., Xiangdian Co., Ltd., etc.; The midstream manufacturing enterprises are mainly CRRC Group, which mainly includes China South Locomotive, China North Locomotive, Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd., etc.; Downstream operation and maintenance mainly include China Railway Corporation, local railway bureaus, Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, etc.
Development plan for the railway transport industry
The mainland has issued a number of very important development plans for railway transportation, and the "medium and long-term railway plan" released in 2016 proposed that by 2025, the scale of the railway network will reach about 175,000 kilometers, including about 38,000 kilometers of high-speed railways, the network coverage will be further expanded, the road network structure will be more optimized, and the backbone role will be more significant, so as to better play the role of railways in guaranteeing economic and social development. However, in view of the rapid construction speed of high-speed rail in the 13th Five-Year Plan, the mainland has re-planned in the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the operating mileage of high-speed rail (including intercity railway) in China will be about 50,000 kilometers by 2025.
The outline of the "Outline of the Advance Planning for Railways in the New Era of Transportation Power" released in 2021 proposes that by 2035, the national railway network will reach about 200,000 kilometers, including about 70,000 kilometers of high-speed rail. Cities with a population of more than 200,000 have achieved railway coverage, of which cities with a population of more than 500,000 are accessible by high-speed rail. The national 1, 2 and 3-hour high-speed rail travel circle and the national 1, 2 and 3-day fast cargo flow circle have been fully formed. By 2050, we will form a modern railway industry system with strong radiation functions and build a world-class railway enterprise with global competitiveness.
Wu Jingming, associate professor of China University of Political Science and Law and director of the China Consumers Association, said that railway companies actively announce ticket sales restriction information to passengers through official channels, make the interval sales restriction policy transparent and rational, answer passengers' questions in a timely manner, inform passengers of the reasons why there are no tickets at stops, and guide passengers to choose a reasonable way of travel.
Liu Junhai, professor at the Law School of Chinese University and director of the Institute of Commercial Law, suggested that railway enterprises should respect consumers' right to choose, fair trade and right to know in accordance with the law, consider the reasonable demands of consumers, fully open long, medium and short-distance tickets, and at the same time fulfill fuller and more detailed information disclosure obligations on ticket sales policies, so that consumers can buy tickets and take trains clearly.
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