As of 9 o'clock on September 27, the railway department has sold a total of 75.41 million tickets for the National Day holiday transportation from September 29 to October 8, and the railway 12306 system is running smoothly.
From the perspective of train ticket pre-sales, the popular departure cities during the National Day Golden Week transportation period are mainly Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Nanjing, and Changsha; The most popular cities to arrive at are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Nanjing, and Changsha. The passenger flow between Chengdu and Xi'an, Beijing to Shanghai, Guangzhou to Nanning, Beijing to Shenyang, Guangzhou to Zhanjiang, Beijing to Hohhot, Guangzhou to Shantou, Guangzhou to Changsha, Beijing to Taiyuan, Wuhan to Shanghai and other sections is relatively concentrated.
During the pre-holiday peak period from September 29th to October 1st, there are still remaining tickets for some trains in the directions of Beijing to Tianjin, Shenzhen to Hong Kong, Suzhou to Shanghai, Nanjing to Shanghai, Baoding to Beijing, Hangzhou to Shanghai, Shanghai to Beijing, Shanghai to Beijing, etc.; During the peak period of return after the holiday from October 6th to 8th, there are still remaining tickets for some trains in the directions of Beijing to Tianjin, Shanghai to Nanjing, Shenzhen to Hong Kong, Guangzhou to Nanning, Beijing to Shanghai, Beijing to Handan, Shanghai to Hefei and other directions.
During the mid-festival period from October 2nd to 5th, the remaining tickets in all directions are relatively sufficient; On September 27 and 28, the remaining tickets in all directions were basically sufficient.
Through the railway 12306 ticket purchase data analysis of travel demand, the railway department actively opened short-distance trains, from September 29 to October 1 before the holiday travel peak, arranged to open more Baoji to Xi'an, Chengdu to Luzhou, Hankou to Yichang, Dali to Xi'an and other directions of a number of short and medium-distance passenger trains; From October 6th to October 8th, during the return peak after the holiday, multiple passenger trains from Chongqing to Wanzhou, Chengdu to Luzhou, Baoji to Xi'an, Dali to Xi'an and other directions will be arranged.
For passengers who have not bought their favorite train tickets for the time being, the railway department suggests that they can travel off-peak, and the remaining tickets are sufficient during non-peak travel hours; You can also use the railway 12306 standby ticket purchase function, you can select up to 60 combinations of "date + train", and the temporarily added passenger train seats and the seats generated by the refund will be given priority to the passengers who submit the waitlist order, which can improve the success rate of ticket purchase, and the standby ticket purchase does not have any additional fees other than the fare; If there is no ticket for the direct train, you can use the same train connection, intermediate transfer, purchase connecting ticket, etc.
The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including the mobile phone client) is the only official train ticket online ticketing platform of China Railway, please be sure to look for the official website of 12306 and the official app of "Railway 12306", and purchase tickets through the official channels of the railway.
Source: China Railway WeChat official account Editor: Niu Zhongzhen