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The increase reached about 20%.
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The price of four high-speed rail lines began to be adjusted in June
Some rose by about 20%
On May 2, the official website of Railway 12306 issued four price adjustment announcements. According to the announcement, since June 15 this year, the announced fares of EMU trains running at speeds of 300 kilometers per hour and above on the Wuhan-Guangzhou section of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway, the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, and the Hangzhou-Ningbo section of the Hangzhou-Shenzhen railway, that is, the full-price ticket price without discount, will be optimized and adjusted.
Judging from the published fare schedules, some of the adjusted published fares are higher than the current fares. Taking the Wuguang section of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway as an example, the announced fare for the second-class seat from Changsha to Guangzhou South will be 377 yuan from June 15, 2024, an increase of 20.06% from the current announced fare of 314 yuan.
For example, in the Shanghai-Hangzhou section of the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, the announced fare of the second-class seat from Shanghai Hongqiao to Hangzhou East has been increased to 87 yuan, an increase of 19.18% compared with the current published fare of 73 yuan.
In the announcement, the railway company also said that the implementation of fares between stations will be the upper limit of the published fare, with a lower limit of 5.5% off, and a floating fare system with multi-grade and flexible discounts will be implemented to provide more choices for passengers.
Fare adjustment for 4 high-speed rail lines
What are the rationales and considerations?
Recently, a CCTV reporter interviewed the heads of the above-mentioned relevant railway transport enterprises on issues of public concern, and gained an in-depth understanding of the content, basis and purpose of the optimization and adjustment of EMU fares.
What are the main contents of the fare optimization adjustment?
The optimization and adjustment of EMU train fares mainly involves the fare of EMU trains with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour and above running in the Wuhan-Guangzhou section of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway, the Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway, the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway in Shanghai-Hangzhou section, and the Hangzhou-Changsha section.
The mechanism will take the published fare as the upper limit, comprehensively consider the season, date, time period, travel speed, seat and other factors, implement different ranges of discount floating, reasonably determine the implementation of the fare, and fully reflect the high quality and high price.
- For example, the published fare of the second-class seat between Wuhan and Guangzhou South of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway will be increased by 19% compared with the current fare, and the implementation of the fare will be flexibly discounted with the published fare as the upper limit, with a minimum discount of 5.5% to 304 yuan, which is 34% lower than the current fare;
- The published fare of the second-class seat between Hangzhou East and Ningbo of the Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway will be increased by 20% compared with the current fare, and the implemented fare will be flexibly discounted with the published fare as the upper limit, with a minimum discount of 5.5% to 47 yuan, which is 34% lower than the current fare;
- The published fare of the second-class seat between Shanghai Hongqiao and Changsha South of the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway will be increased by 20% compared with the current fare, and the implemented fare will be flexibly discounted with the upper limit of the published fare, with a minimum discount of 5.5% to 315 yuan, which is 34% lower than the current fare.
For details of the fare optimization and adjustment, passengers can log on to the 12306 website or check through the local station announcement.
What is the basis for the fare optimization adjustment?
According to the "Price Law", "Railway Law" and other relevant national regulations, the goods and services listed in the "Central Pricing Catalogue" are set by the government, and the pricing of tickets for high-speed rail EMU trains is not included in the catalogue, and the railway transport enterprises can set their own prices in accordance with the law;
For goods and services listed in the national "Price Hearing Catalogue", price hearings are required when price formulation and adjustment, and the pricing of tickets for high-speed rail EMU trains is not within the scope of the hearing catalogue and does not need to hold price hearings.
What are the main considerations for fare optimization?
The optimization and adjustment of EMU train fares mainly considers:
- First, these high-speed rail lines were opened for operation between 2009 and 2014, and for more than 10 years, the EMU trains running on the line at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour and above have been implementing a single fare mechanism, and the operating costs such as line maintenance, vehicle purchase, equipment renewal, labor and employment have changed greatly, and the existing single fare mechanism has obviously not adapted to the market-oriented business situation, and it is urgent to establish a market-oriented fare mechanism to improve the market-oriented operation level of railway transport enterprises.
- Second, these high-speed rail lines running at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour and above EMU trains generally have different seasons, dates, periods of unbalanced passenger flow, in the peak hours of passenger travel, even if a large number of additional EMU trains are still difficult to meet the needs of passengers to concentrate on travel, the implementation of flexible discounts, there are ups and downs of the market-oriented fare mechanism, is conducive to the reasonable matching of capacity and demand through price leverage, promote the balance of passenger flow, so that limited capacity resources to serve more passengers, It also allows some passengers who have relatively low requirements for train operation schedules to enjoy more preferential fares.
- Third, these parallel high-speed rail lines have general-speed passenger trains running, and the implementation of a market-oriented fare mechanism with flexible discounts, rises and falls, will further enrich the high-speed rail and ordinary rail passenger product system, and provide more choices for passengers.
- Fourth, the fare level of EMU trains running on these high-speed railways with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour and above is obviously unbalanced with the fares of similar EMU trains running on other high-speed rail lines in the region.
The person in charge of the relevant railway transport enterprises said that the area where the high-speed rail line involved in the fare optimization and adjustment is located, and the competition of various modes of transportation is sufficient, and the EMU train fare optimization and adjustment still has a greater cost-effective advantage than other modes of transportation. Railway transport enterprises will comprehensively consider the changes in passenger flow, market demand and passenger acceptance, and make good use of the flexible discount, high-speed rail EMU train fare mechanism with ups and downs, so as to meet the diversified travel needs of passengers to the greatest extent.
Source: Zhejiang Public Security Editor: Chen Qi First Trial: Yan Jiahui Second Trial: Xu Feiyan Third Trial: Yao Zhangyu Signature: Yu Donglin
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