China plans to launch a new service that will allow the public to purchase tickets via smartphones by the end of the month.
Passengers will soon enjoy discounts when buying business class tickets and premium seats on high-speed trains operating on two lines in East China.
The difficulty of securing a train ticket online during the Spring Festival has prompted hackers to write computer programs that break into booking sites.
Railway agencies across the country are posting up-to-date information on their micro blogs to provide better service to passengers going home in the Spring Festival peak travel season.
Migrant workers complain that without Internet access, they have had more problems than ever buying train tickets since railway authorities launched the online ticket booking system.
China's Ministry of Railways announced on Sept 29 a series of improvement measures, including facilitating train ticket purchasing and offering better food on trains, months after a deadly rail accident tarnished the ministry's image.
China's railway ministry announced Monday trial prices for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, which are set according to two different speeds.
China's Ministry of Railways (MOR) said on Wednesday that Chinese rail ticket offices have started selling high-speed train tickets according to the passenger's name.
This year, due to the operation of high-speed trains, the number of ordinary trains in service was reduced and cheaper tickets for traveling in these ordinary trains were hard to get.
Chinese railway police have arrested 1,067 people for scalping train tickets in a crackdown some three weeks before the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, the public security bureau of the Ministry of Railways said Thursday.
Chinese police have arrested more than 5,700 people for scalping train tickets ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
Nothing can be weirder than a train with just 0.8 percent of its seats occupied on Saturday last week, the first day of the busy home-bound rush before the traditional Spring Festival on Feb 14.
Confident scalpers laugh off predictions that the new train ticketing system will wipe out 'yellow bulls'. Being a huang niu - or yellow bull - is a lucrative career in China...
With only three weeks left before more than half of the country's workforce and students stretch the nation's transportation system to its limits during Spring Festival, Beijing's ticket scalpers are working at a frantic pace.
Spring Festival, the biggest celebration in the Chinese calendar, is less than a month away.
It's anyone's guess whether the introduction of an ID-based booking system can reduce the difficulties of buying a homebound train ticket during the transit peak season of the coming festival.
Police Wednesday launched a crackdown on train ticket scalping on the Internet, as tens of thousands of students prepare to return to school for the fall semester beginning in September.
As the authorities announced last week the earlier-than-usual commencement of the chunyun (the mass transport of passengers during the Spring Festival holiday season), scalpers intensified their efforts to speculate on the train tickets.
Tickets for the country's new bullet train services went on sale at the weekend, but there was nothing high-speed about the public's response.
The arrival of China's bullet trains has been accompanied by much fanfare.
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