Reporter learned from Shanghai railway sector, the spring will be closely watched Year of the Rabbit January 19, 2011 start. Currently, the Ministry of Railways has started work to each Railway Administration to deploy the Spring Festival. Next year, China will still be tried in some areas the real name system will be ticket sales, but Shanghai is also the station name system, is still unknown.
Spring Festival in advance ticket sales will start next month on the 10th, railway spring period is generally the Spring Festival and the Festival 15 days prior to 25 days. Next year's Chinese New Year is February 3, so January 19, 2011, the National Railway Administration would usher in the Year of the Rabbit Spring Festival, is expected to peak ticket will be around January 10 pre-start, while the travel peak, will be concentrated in a January 25 to February 1 after.
Recently, the Ministry of Railways has started in some areas started telephone booking and real-name system for ticket sales of preparatory work, in principle, should be conditional offer telephone booking Railway Administration has offered to further increase the number of calls the Department to streamline processing procedures, more convenience to passengers Tickets.
Last year during the spring, many travelers make when booking hotline 95105105 Shanghai Railway are reflected booking process is too cumbersome, a new ticket to get through difficult times. During the spring of 2010, the Ministry of Railways in Guangzhou and Chengdu trial of 37 stations for the first time a railway ticket booking system, travelers must purchase in order to provide valid identification station bus ticket in hand. It reflects a lot of tourists, a move cattle in the fight against scalping has a certain effect.
Yesterday, railway authorities said that at present not yet received the spring 2011 trial from Shanghai train station is the real name system will notice. Industry insiders say the real name system purchase last year during the spring exposed some problems, such as ticketing, check-in slows down and so on. This year the railway sector will certainly be improved on in specific areas. Source: Chengdu Daily
