How to buy a high-speed rail time-counting ticket commuter ticket?
Rail time-counting and commuter tickets provide convenience for passengers traveling or traveling across cities. What is the specific difference between high-speed rail time-counting tickets and commuter tickets? How do I buy this ticket?
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Time-counting tickets mean that passengers can flexibly choose products according to the number of trips. Taking a 20-time counting ticket as an example, it refers to a train that can be used 20 times within the specified validity period to run on a designated line and to be sent to the station and designated seat when purchasing the product.
A commuter pass is a product that passengers can flexibly choose according to their travel period. Take the "Wuhan, Macheng, Hong'an" tourism time-counting ticket launched on May 10 as an example. The validity period of the ride is calculated from the date of the first ride, a total of 9 days.
Passengers can purchase tickets in their real names through the 12306 website or the "Railway 12306" mobile app, and the ticketing platform is only open to 12306 registered users who have passed the identity information verification. The time-counting ticket can only be used by the person and cannot be transferred or shared. "Rail Travel" members can also earn ride points after purchasing and using this product.
Xi Shanshan, stationmaster on duty at Hankou Station of Wuhan Bureau of China Railway: Buy tickets on the railway 12306 website, and you can also buy tickets on the mobile phone 12306 App. Open the App like this, click on the "Time Counting Commuter Pass" below, and select "Travel" on the "Time Counting Commuter Pass" function page, you can see the travel time counting ticket, click this order to purchase.
Practical options for travelers traveling in specific regions
In December 2020, China Railway Group issued the "Administrative Measures for Railway Regular Tickets and Time-counting Tickets", which piloted new products on the Beijing-Shanghai and Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed railways in the early stage, and promoted them on railways across the country from July 2021. Up to now, the railway department has launched time-counting tickets on 60 routes for commuter passengers and 10 routes for tourist passengers.
At present, high-speed rail time-counting tickets and regular tickets have been sold on many railway lines such as the Yangtze River Delta Railway, Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and Xicheng High-speed Railway.
At present, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has a total of 6 lines, including Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Intercity, Nanzhou-Guangzhou Railway, Hangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway, and Gansu-Shenzhen High-speed Railway, which have launched time-counting tickets and commuter tickets, covering Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Huizhou, Nanning, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Hangzhou and other cities.
Focusing on key tourism routes, Yunnan has specially launched new ticket products such as time-counting and time-counting tourism to help Yunnan's tourism economy. There are 16 stations on 4 lines, including the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway, the Xining-Menyuan section of the Lanxin Passenger Railway, and the Xining-Golmud section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and 20 time-counting ticket services, providing more choices for the majority of passengers.
In the next step, the railway department will study and launch more flexible and diverse new ticket system products according to the needs of different passenger groups, gradually expand the coverage of the new ticket system, and strive to improve the travel experience of passengers.
(Source: CCTV News)
Editor: Angel