Many Ways to Purchase Train Tickets

On December 7, the China Railway Corporation announced on the website 12306 the arrangements for the 2014 spring train ticket sales work. The 2014 Spring Festival was January 16, 2014 to February 24, 2014. The railway department launched a new version of the 12306 website, including trial operation of the mobile phone client, early release of group tickets for migrant workers, and priority for student group ticketing to ensure smooth ticket purchase during the Spring Festival.



“More Options” Easily Purchase Tickets On December 6, the new version of the 12306 website of the China Railway Customer Service Center was put into trial operation, providing passengers with services such as dynamic refresh and automatic submission.

The new version introduced the "more options" function while improving the page. In addition to the original “passenger” information, increase “priority trips”, “precedence seats” (up to a maximum of 5 priority seats), “alternate dates” (select up to 5 alternative dates), “advanced” Set options such as "Seat Priority, Trip Priority".

In addition, select "turn on automatic query", the system will automatically and continuously query the ticket according to the set query conditions until the ticket that meets the passenger condition is found. After clicking the "Automatically submit" option, the website will automatically query the eligible trips and automatically submit the order information; if there are only some tickets that meet the set conditions for the same trip, the priority will be given to the set rider and seat. Submit in order.

Mobile client goes online to purchase tickets anytime, anywhere On December 8th, the railway department’s official mobile phone ticketing client, “Railway 12306,” went online to try and provide trainees with information on train information, ticket purchases and other services. According to Xinhua News Agency, as of 17:00 on the 8th, nearly 200,000 users across the country experienced the purchase of railway mobile phone tickets, of which 20,000 paid for tickets.

The “Railway 12306” mobile client is free for passengers to download and use. Android mobile phone users can download directly from the 12306 website. Apple mobile phone users can download it from the Apple App Store "APP STORE".

The peasant worker group ticket has already begun to handle 5 people to fight for the group to facilitate the migrant workers as the main migrant workers to buy train tickets, the railway department to sell migrant workers in advance to return the ticket, group ticket processing work officially started on December 8. During the Spring Festival travel season, the total number of tickets, preferential use of labor companies and self-organized groups to deal with the return of migrant workers group tickets. When the number of migrant workers is 5 or more, they can form a self-organized group to handle return tickets for migrant workers.

In addition, the railway department announced 162 migrant worker group ticketing stations, a special window to apply for migrant worker group round-trip tickets, and announced group ticket processing procedures on the website 12306. Starting from December 25, 2013, the employment companies and self-organized groups can directly purchase migrant worker group tickets at the special window of all stations with their original ID cards.

Priority will be given to students' group ticket automatic ticket machines. During the 2014 Spring Festival on campus, the railway department will still give priority to student tickets. From December 10 to 19, 2013, eight railway bureaus, including Harbin, Shenyang, Beijing, Hohhot, Xi’an, Chengdu, Kunming Railway Bureau and Guangzhou Railway Group, opened Internet channels and focused on accepting from January 10 to February 24, 2014. Student group round-trip ticket between dates. The processing flow is: First, the colleges submit orders on the website; the second step, the railway department allocates tickets; and the third step, the institutions pay for tickets.

From December 10 to December 19, 2013, other railway bureaus set up a special window for stations with scheduled departure trains and tickets for hard seats to focus on sale of round-trip tickets for student groups before February 24, 2014.

After the centralized processing is completed, on December 20, 2013, student tickets before February 24th, 2014 will be released on the Internet, telephone booking, station window, and outlets.

In addition, in order to facilitate student ticket purchase and ticket collection, the automatic ticketing and ticket collection machines set up at the station all increase the function of selling student tickets. In some large-scale institutions, after the agreement of the school, the automatic selling is gradually set up ( Take a ticket machine to facilitate students to buy (take) tickets. Student travelers must go to the school’s relevant department in advance to confirm that their student’s train ticket concession card has been written with name, second-generation ID number, ride range, and date of enrolment before being purchased on a ticket machine. (take) tickets; when purchasing online tickets, it is also necessary to ensure that the student discount card information is the same as the information entered when registering on the 12306 website.

□ Reporter Experience 12306 New Website: Automatic Ticket Sweeping No Selecting Function Reporter At 12:00 pm on December 6th, log in to the 12306 new website. After setting the passenger information, select “Priority Trip”, “Priority seat”, “Alternative date”. With other options, try to check the ticket from Beijing to Guangzhou on the 6th. The page shows that the ticket has been sold out. After selecting “Enable automatic inquiry”, the page is refreshed every 5 seconds.

The reporter also tried to purchase a ticket from Beijing to Shanghai on the 17th. After setting the relevant conditions and selecting "Turn on automatic inquiry," a prompt box "Congratulations to you and find out there are tickets" popped up at the bottom right of the website. Successfully identified G101 times and 29 trains." When the reporter selects “Auto Submit” to refresh again, the system pops up a “Brush to the ticket, please check the following information” box and successfully search for the G101 train from Beijing South Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Station on the 17th. After paying online, the reporter successfully purchased a one-way train ticket from Beijing to Shanghai. Before the popular online selection function was not introduced.

Mobile client: the process is convenient without automatic ticket-clearing function. The reporter logged on to the "Railway 12306" mobile client at 11:00 on December 9th, entered a train ticket from Beijing to Shanghai on December 17, 2013. After clicking on the query, the client The remaining ticket information is displayed immediately. The reporter selected one of the T109 hard seats. After submitting the order, the “Online Payment” page popped up. The entire process is convenient and consistent with the flow of the old 12306 website.

The difference is that the mobile client's page is concise. There are only settings such as "departure", "destination", "departure date", "seat" and so on. There is no setting for "more functions" in the new website, nor can it be implemented. Automatic refresh and seat selection and other functions.

â–¡ Remind the formal channels to purchase tickets using my valid identity documents, purchase tickets through the formal channels, not disclose personally identifiable information to others, and not purchase tickets from the ticket seller to avoid cheating and delaying travel. During the Spring Festival, the railway department will increase the verification of the real-name ticket, reminding the majority of passengers to be consistent with "tickets, permits, and people" to avoid delays in travel.

The policy of retiring and revising the sign-in was different During the Spring Festival of 2014, the railway department changed the ticket for passenger reasons, and the date of change of the ticket after the change was between January 16 and February 24 of the next year, and the ticket price will be refunded at the time of ticket refund. 20% of the nuclear refund fee.