The sales of train tickets for the 2019 Spring Festival started Thursday and passengers can buy the tickets through various means including telephone, website and also smartphone app.
The 2020 travel rush, or Chunyun in Chinese, which is called "world's largest migration" will last from January 10 to February 18.
About 440 million trips are expected to be made by rail during the world's largest annual human migration — the Spring Festival travel rush — an 8 percent year-on-year increase, according to the national railway operator.
The upcoming 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, or chunyun in Chinese, which kicks off on Jan 10 and ends on Feb 18, will handle an average of 11 million train journeys per day, China State Railway Co said on Dec 11.
There will likely be 32.5 million more train trips than last year thanks to the country's fast-expanding high-speed rail network, it said, adding that by the end of this year, the total length of China's railways will exceed 139,000 kilometers, with high-speed railway tracks making up 35,000 km of the total, thus further easing rail transportation pressure.
In a bid to improve people's travel experiences, the railway authority will mobilize 3,497 high-speed trains during this year's travel rush, which will handle over 60 percent of passenger trips.
To make the best use of the capacity of trunk rail lines, the company said it will add high-speed train services at night on busy sections such as between Guangzhou, Guangdong province, and Wuhan, Hubei province, and between Shanghai and Zhengzhou, Henan province, over the 40-day period.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
