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On Tuesday, the day before New Year’s Day, train tickets for the 2025 Spring Festival officially went on sale. In addition, the national spring transportation video and telephone conference research and judgment.During this year’s Spring Festival, the volume of cross-regional movement of people in the whole society will reach about 9 billion trips.The scale could be at an all-time high.
This year, the railroad department has launched a succession of new initiatives in terms of ticketing, in addition to students and workers booking ticketing services, some areas have also launched a pilot “system automatically submit the ticket order” function, the release of tickets to the time, the official automatically help you grab tickets.
How do these new features work?
Can buying tickets become faster?
Is the road home smoother in Chinese New Year?
Ticket reservation service is now online
Is it good to buy a ticket for the Spring Festival or not?
On Tuesday, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments held a national spring transportation video and telephone conference to synthesize and study theRailroad passenger traffic is expected to exceed 510 million passenger trips, theThe scale will increase further from last year’s historic peak.
This year’s Spring Festival begins on January 14th and ends on February 22nd, lasting 40 days.Train tickets for the Spring Festival went on sale at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. In less than two hours, more than 10,000 tickets have been sold at Ningbo Station in Zhejiang Province. Popular directions are still areas where migrant workers focus on returning home, including general express tickets to Chengdu, Nanning, Changchun, Guiyang and other directions, which are basically on a waiting list; tickets for short- and medium-distance trips to Hefei, Fuzhou, Wenzhou and other places are also on a waiting list for some periods.
Railroad Ningbo Station passenger duty officer Zhang Yiting: We will be based on the reservation of passengers, waiting for the situation, the appropriate opening of some additional trains. This requires travelers to truthfully fill out the waiting list, so that the railroad collects information, the more people waiting list, we will open additional trains in this direction.
ompared with last year, this year’s Spring Festival 12 days in advance, also makes the flow of workers and visiting relatives to be intertwined with the successive release of the student flow.
As the Internet has become the main means of railroad ticketing in recent years, in order to successfully obtain a ticket to go home during the Spring Festival, not only do we have to fight for hand speed, but also factors including the availability of tickets, network speed and the quality of the operating equipment, which also affect the success rate of ticket purchase. Just before purchasing tickets for this year’s Spring FestivalRailroad 12306 launched a special service area for students to book tickets, optimizing and adjusting the rules for the issuance and checking of student discount tickets.
