Source: China News Service
National Day holiday is approaching, starting tomorrow (September 17), train tickets for the National Day Golden Week will be officially launched. Do you have any travel plans?
Tickets to Northeast China are a bit tight
According to the arrangements of the State Council, the National Day holiday in 2022 will be from October 1 to 7. According to the 15-day pre-sale period of railway tickets, starting from September 17, passengers can purchase train tickets on the first day of the National Day Golden Week (October 1) through the 12306 website, APP, etc., and train tickets on October 6 and 7 will be sold on September 22 and 23 respectively.
reporter checked the 12306 website and found that two days before the National Day Golden Week, most tickets were still surplus. Taking departure from Beijing on September 29 as an example, as of 12:00 on September 15, most trains to Tianjin, Shanghai, Xi'an, Nanjing, etc. had more tickets, while trains to Northeast China were slightly short of shortages.
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, Specifically, among the 139 trains from Beijing to Shijiazhuang, 82 trains have tickets; among the 89 trains from Beijing to Zhengzhou, 56 trains can buy tickets immediately; among the 23 trains from Beijing to Harbin, 11 trains can be booked; there are 54 trains from Beijing to Shenyang, and 23 tickets can be purchased.
Departure time for different stations is different
It should be noted that the online departure time for tickets at different train stations is different. Passengers need to check the specific time for ticket purchase based on the stations they purchased and prepare in advance to avoid missing the ticket purchase time. Specifically, passengers can open the 12306 official website, click on the "Departure Time" under the "Information Query" column, and then select the starting date and starting station to query.
Take the starting time of train tickets in Beijing and Shanghai as an example. Railway 12306 website shows that the earliest sale time for Beijing West Station is at 8 am; Beijing Station and Beijing Chaoyang Station start at 10 am; Beijing North Station 12 am; Beijing South Station starts at 12:30 am; Beijing East Station , Changping North Station, and Qinghe Station starts at 16:00. The starting time of all stations in Shanghai is in the afternoon, with Shanghai Hongqiao Station starting at 13:30, Shanghai Station , Shanghai South Station and Shanghai West Station starting at 14:30.
In terms of ticket refund fees, Railway 12306 stated that there is no refund fee for ticket refunds 8 days or more before driving on the ticket station; if the ticket refund time is within 7 days before driving on the ticket and more than 48 hours, 5% of the ticket must be deducted as the handling fee; if the ticket refund time is between 24 hours and 48 hours before driving on the ticket, 10% of the ticket price must be deducted as the handling fee; if the ticket refund time is within 24 hours before driving on the ticket, 20% of the ticket price must be deducted as the handling fee.
Airplane or train?
In terms of travel methods, some people like to take high-speed trains or high-speed rails, some prefer sleeper berths, and some people choose to travel on planes because of the shortage of tickets. So, what is the difference in the price of traveling by ordinary trains, high-speed rails and airplanes before the festival?
Taking starting from Beijing as an example, the reporter selected twelve cities including Harbin, Zhengzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou as destinations, and compared the lowest prices on the railway 12306 website and third-party travel platforms. It was found that the fares for some D trains were relatively lower.
For example, the second-class ticket price of D735 train from Beijing to Qingdao is 161 yuan, which is only about one-tenth of the lowest air ticket price of Beijing to Qingdao on the 30th; the second-class ticket price of D711 train from Beijing to Nanjing is only 197 yuan, while the G-head train from Beijing to Nanjing is mostly more than 400 yuan. However, the reporter noticed that within half an hour after the ticket for the train was released on the 29th, the Railway 12306 website showed that only waiting tickets can be purchased.
Judging from the airfare prices, the lowest prices for most routes on September 29 are lower than the 30th. Among them, the lowest air ticket prices from Beijing to Harbin and Qingdao on the 29th were about 50% cheaper than on the 30th, and the lowest air ticket prices from Beijing to Dalian, Kunming and Guangzhou on the 29th also dropped significantly compared with the 30th; but the lowest air ticket prices from Beijing to Nanjing, Wuhan and Changsha on the 29th and 30th did not change.
The air ticket price from Beijing to Shanghai is relatively cheap. The lowest air ticket price on both the 29th and 30th is lower than the price of the G/D train from Beijing to Shanghai.
Take the high-speed rail to take nucleic acid
However, whether you choose to travel by train or airplane during this holiday, passengers need to take protective measures and prepare a negative nucleic acid certificate within 48 hours.
htmlOn September 8, Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health Commission's Disease Control and Prevention Bureau, said that my country will implement "on-site inspection" during the National Day holiday and around the National Day holiday, and in accordance with the principle of "voluntary, free, pick-and-go, and no restriction of movement", it will provide nucleic acid testing services for cross-provincial migrant personnel after they arrive in the local area.According to reports, in addition to implementing "ground inspection", passengers must hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours to take planes, high-speed rail, train, cross-provincial long-distance passenger vehicles, cross-provincial passenger ships and other means of transportation. When checking in hotels, hotels and places with crowded traffic such as tourist attractions, check the health code and the negative nucleic acid test certificate within 72 hours.
Wu Liangyou pointed out that the implementation time of prevention and control measures during the National Day holiday and before and after is from September 10, 2022 to October 31, 2022. The relevant measures will be further optimized and improved according to the epidemic situation and prevention and control work needs.
"The domestic local epidemic still shows a trend of scattered in multiple places and frequent occurrence in many places." Wu Liangyou said that as the holiday approaches, the mobility of people has increased. He advocates that the general public celebrate the local festival during the National Day holiday, minimize travel across cities and cities, and avoid the risk of epidemic transmission caused by large-scale movement of people.
