National Railway in China 21 Million Passengers Expected on October 1st, with 110 Million Tickets Sold during Golden Week

TapTechNews October 1st news, according to the official disclosure of the National Railway Group, on October 1st, the national railway is expected to send 21 million passengers (a 21.51% increase month-on-month) and plans to add 1,476 passenger trains. On September 30th, the national railway sent 17.283 million passengers.

As of 8 am today, the railway 12306 has cumulatively sold 110 million tickets during the Golden Week. Judging from the pre-sale situation, the popular departure and arrival cities mainly include Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Xi'an, Nanjing, Changsha; the passenger flows in the sections such as Chengdu-Xi'an, Beijing-Shanghai, Guangzhou-Nanning, Beijing-Hohhot, Guangzhou-Changsha, Guangzhou-Shantou, Guangzhou-Zhanjiang, Beijing-Shenyang, Beijing-Taiyuan, Wuhan-Changsha are relatively concentrated.

TapTechNews noticed that the railway department once again reminds passengers that the railway 12306 website (including the mobile client) is the only official online ticket sales platform of the Chinese railway, and has never authorized any third-party platform to sell train tickets. There is no additional charge such as a ticket purchase acceleration package, ticket purchase membership fee, and seat selection fee on the railway 12306 platform.

The official of the National Railway Group said that all passengers must purchase tickets through the official channels of the railway, identify the 12306 official website and the railway 12306 official App, and at the same time confirm that the payee of the ticket price is China Railway Network Co., Ltd., to avoid being unable to receive the refundable amount when subsequent refund and ticket change are required.