Beijing, Jan. 3 (Xinhua)-Today, the first day train tickets for Spring Festival travel rush in 2018 will be officially put on sale. This year, Spring Festival travel rush started on February 1st and ended on March 12th.
China Railway Corporation recently stressed that it is necessary to allocate resources scientifically and rationally, create a fair and just ticketing environment, and continuously improve the ticketing experience of passengers. In addition, railway police authorities across the country have recently launched a 100-day campaign against scalping "Falcon -2018".
The chart comes from the official Weibo of China Railway Corporation.
Ticket sales in Spring Festival travel rush will be fully launched from now on. Online shopping tickets will be 30 days ahead of schedule.
According to the "2018 Railway Spring Festival travel rush Ticket Booking Calendar" compiled by China Railway Corporation, the pre-sale period of train tickets in Spring Festival travel rush this year continues to the previous regulations. The longest pre-sale period of network and telephone is 30 days, and the longest pre-sale period of station windows, sales outlets and ticket vending machines is 28 days.
Starting today, passengers can book the train tickets on the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month (February 1st) in advance, and the train tickets on New Year’s Eve (February 15th) will be on sale from January 17th.
According to the arrangement of some holidays in 2018 previously released by the General Office of the State Council, this year’s Spring Festival holiday lasts for 7 days from February 15th to 21st.
According to the above holidays and the ticket purchasing situation in Spring Festival travel rush in previous years, it is estimated that the train tickets from February 12th to February 14th (from the 27th to 29th of the twelfth lunar month) are the most in demand. Passengers with travel needs can grab tickets through online or telephone booking channels from January 14th to January 16th.
As far as the return journey is concerned, according to the pre-sale calculation of 30 days in advance, starting from January 22, you can buy a return train ticket on the fifth day of the first month, and so on.
Tickets for working groups and winter vacation students in some areas have been sold.
Before the ticket sales in Spring Festival travel rush in 2018 are fully launched today, some railway bureaus have started the centralized booking of Spring Festival travel rush migrant workers’ group tickets and winter vacation student tickets.
For example, since December 6th last year, China Railway Guangzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd. has started to book tickets for migrant workers in Spring Festival travel rush in the Pearl River Delta region in 2018. Enterprises with no less than 30 employees and self-organized groups with five or more employees can declare.
In Jiangxi, according to the news of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group Co., Ltd., the group booking of migrant workers in Spring Festival travel rush has been officially launched in 2018. During the Spring Festival travel rush period of South Railway, special windows will be opened in Nanchang, Ganzhou, Ji ‘an, Jiujiang, yingtan, Pingxiang and Jingdezhen to accept the demand for ticket purchase.
In Beijing, China Railway Beijing Bureau Group Co., Ltd. began to handle the 2018 Spring Festival travel rush migrant workers’ group tickets on December 24th last year, and the group tickets will give priority to the additional train tickets with departure dates from February 1st to March 12th, 2018.
In addition, on December 22 last year, China Railway Beijing Bureau Group Co., Ltd. also announced the launch of the centralized booking of student tickets for the 2018 winter vacation. Colleges and universities submit orders through the Internet, and the railway departments allocate tickets in a centralized way. After the tickets are allocated successfully, students can check the confirmation results on the designated website by themselves, and then go to the station window and the self-service ticket vending machine to pay for the tickets and collect them.
Mr. Tie Zong: Create a fair and just ticketing environment and improve the ticketing experience of passengers.
Every year in Spring Festival travel rush, how to "grab" a train ticket to go home for the Spring Festival has become the most concerned thing for many people. In order to ensure Spring Festival travel rush this year, since December last year, China Railway Corporation has repeatedly emphasized and deployed the ticket sales guarantee work in Spring Festival travel rush.
According to the website of China Railway Corporation, on the morning of December 25th last year, Lu Dongfu, Party Secretary and General Manager of China Railway Corporation, went to china academy of railway sciences to inspect and investigate the optimized construction of the 12306 ticket system and the preparations for ticket sales in Spring Festival travel rush.
Lu Dongfu emphasized that the construction of hardware, software and talents should be strengthened, the technical support capability should be improved, and the network security should be foolproof.
In addition, he said that it is necessary to proceed from the needs of passengers, improve the ticketing strategy, optimize service functions, make full use of big data technology, allocate resources scientifically and rationally, create a fair and just ticketing environment, and continuously improve the ticketing experience of passengers.
Lu Dongfu also said that it is necessary to establish a security coordination mechanism, adhere to the co-location system, strengthen emergency response, improve emergency plans, strengthen duty, and coordinate and solve various problems in a timely manner. It is necessary to keep abreast of passenger demand and public opinion trends and guide passenger expectations.
Data Map: The police are counting fake train tickets and documents. Photo by Hu Jinli
"Falcon — 2018 "campaign Railway police cracked down on scalping.
According to reports, in order to further purify the ticket purchasing environment, ensure the order of railway transportation, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of passengers, the national railway police authorities recently deployed and launched a 100-day crackdown on scalping "Falcon — 2018 "campaign.
According to statistics, since "Falcon — Since the launch of the "2018" campaign, 186 scalping cases have been cracked, 765 illegal suspects have been arrested, and more than 26,000 train tickets and more than 12,000 fake train tickets have been seized.
According to reports, the crackdown on scalping "Falcon — The "2018" campaign set up two battlefields of "online network and offline entity". On the basis of focusing on the "tracing action" of scalping clues in the early stage, it quickly promoted the "clearing action" to crack down on scalping.
According to reports, in the past few days, railway police authorities in various places have dispatched police officers with experience in cracking down on scalping to form more than 500 professional squads to carry out multi-departmental and multi-police operations such as public security and criminal investigation. Beijing, Nanjing, Urumqi and other railway public security departments have stepped up inspections of station areas and promptly checked and cleaned up "familiar faces" suspected of scalping; Harbin, Wuwei, Jiamusi and other railway public security departments have strengthened the inspection and supervision of train ticket sales outlets and carried out relevant legal publicity and education. (End)