The railway Spring Festival travel tickets for 2025 will go on sale today.
Reporter from The Paper learned from China Railway Group Limited (hereinafter referred to as “China Railway”) that the railway Spring Festival transportation for 2025 will start on January 14th and end on February 22nd, a total of 40 days. The railway tickets for the first day of transportation will go on sale on December 31st. It is expected that the national railway will transport 510 million passengers during the Spring Festival transportation period. The peak passenger flow before the Spring Festival is expected to be on January 25th (the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month), and the peak passenger flow after the Spring Festival is expected to be on February 4th (the seventh day of the first lunar month).
The person in charge of passenger transport at China Railway introduced that during the Spring Festival transportation in 2025, the overall passenger flow will steadily increase. Before the Spring Festival, the student flow, migrant workers flow, and family visit flow will overlap, with a concentrated passenger flow. After the Spring Festival, the passenger flow will be relatively smooth. The railway department will adhere to the people-centered development thought, fully implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conference, continue to deepen the structural reform of railway transportation supply side, thoroughly analyze the characteristics and trend of passenger flow during Spring Festival transportation, increase passenger transport capacity, optimize ticket sales organization, and ensure the safe, orderly and comfortable travel for the broad masses of people during Spring Festival transportation.
Firstly, it will increase passenger transport capacity. It will fully utilize the developed and perfect high-speed rail network and modern railway network, especially the newly opened lines, stations and newly configured EMU equipment in 2024, to enhance the accessibility and coverage of the railway network. Based on the first-quarter train operation diagram, a Spring Festival transportation train operation diagram will be compiled to further expand passenger transport capacity. It is expected that about 14,100 passenger trains can be arranged daily before the Spring Festival, and about 14,200 passenger trains can be arranged daily after the Spring Festival. The seating capacity will increase by 3.9% and 4.3% year-on-year respectively. During the peak period, additional night trains will be added between Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanchang, as well as Beijing to cities such as沈阳 and Taiyuan. By utilizing big data from铁路12306 ticket purchasing, additional transport capacity will be added in popular directions, sections and time periods to achieve a scientific match between transport capacity and travel demand. The railway department will maintain the scale of conventional passenger trains, operate public “slow trains” and “rural revitalization” passenger trains to serve diversified travel needs.
Secondly, it will optimize ticket sales service measures. It will make use of铁路12306’s functions such as waiting list ticket purchase, online berth selection, reminder subscription for ticket sale commencement, and railway code service to promote comprehensive digital passenger electronic invoice service and enrich the content of 12306 information service. It will further optimize pre-filled ticket purchase information service, pilot test the function of “automatic submission of ticket purchase orders” to continuously improve passengers’ ticket purchase experience. It has launched ticket purchase functions for students and migrant workers, optimized the sale and verification rules for student discount tickets to ensure travel for key groups. It will scientifically formulate ticket sales strategies, strengthen real-time monitoring of remaining tickets and waiting list orders, dynamically adjust ticket allocation mechanisms, balance the supply of tickets for long-distance and short-distance sections, and maximize passenger travel demand.
Thirdly, it will ensure smooth operation of the ticketing system. In response to the peak ticketing during Spring Festival transportation, the railway department will reinforce resources for铁路12306 ticketing system in advance, optimize resource allocation, expand network bandwidth, enhance cloud service capacity for remaining ticket inquiry, strengthen security risk prevention and control measures to further enhance its ability to cope with large-scale concurrent access demand and network security protection. A comprehensive health check will be conducted on software and hardware facilities of铁路12306 system to strengthen system operation monitoring and network security management. Emergency drills will be carried out for various emergencies to improve emergency response efficiency. Technical means will be taken to prevent and deter malicious ticket抢票行为 from third-party platforms to create a fair and equitable ticket purchasing environment, and fully ensure the safe and stable operation of铁路客票system.
The person in charge stated that during Spring Festival transportation period, passengers have strong willingness to travel with highly concentrated passenger flow in popular areas and time periods leading to prominent contradiction between transport capacity and demand resulting in tight ticket supply. Passengers are advised to choose off-peak travel or use铁路12306’s waiting
