CCTV News: The Qingming Festival transportation starts on April 3 and ends on April 7, with a period of 5 days, and is expected to be the highest peak of passenger flow on April 4. Since the Qingming Festival holiday tickets were released on March 20, as of 10:00 on March 25, the railway department has issued a total of 16.13 million Qingming Festival holiday tickets, and the railway 12306 system operates safely and smoothly.

Judging from the current ticket sales situation, passengers have a strong desire to travel during the Qingming Festival, and the passenger flow is highly concentrated at the beginning and end. The demand for medium and short-distance passenger flows during the festival is strong. Popular cities mainly start to leave Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Changsha, and Zhengzhou; popular cities mainly arrive in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Xi'an, Zhengzhou; Guangzhou to Nanning, Beijing to Shanghai, Xi'an to Chengdu, Wuhan to Changsha, Beijing to Chenyang, Beijing to Taiyuan, Beijing to Xi'an, Beijing to Xi'an, Beijing to Zhengzhou, Beijing to Jinan and other popular areas are relatively concentrated.

Judging from the remaining tickets, there are sufficient remaining tickets in the range from April 3 to 7, Beijing to Tianjin, Shanghai to Suzhou, Guangzhou to Shenzhen, etc.; Beijing to Shanghai to Shanghai, Hohhot, Xi'an, Shijiazhuang, Baoding to Beijing, Shanghai to Nanjing, Hefei, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Hong Kong to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Guangzhou to Nanning, Zhanjiang, Shantou, Guangzhou to Changsha, Dalian to Chenyang, Harbin to Jiamusi and Qiqihar, Changchun to Yanbian, Xi'an to Chengdu, Chengdu to Chongqing, Shenzhen to Chaozhou, Changsha, Guangzhou to Changsha and other areas. Passengers can check and purchase tickets through railway 12306 in time.

During the Qingming Festival, passenger flow is relatively concentrated in some popular directions and time periods, and tickets are relatively tight. Passengers can use the railway 12306 waiting ticket purchase function, and a maximum of 60 "date + train" combinations can be selected. The temporary newly added passenger train seats and seats generated by ticket refund will be given priority to passengers submitting waitlist orders; if there is no ticket to the direct train, you can use the same train connection, mid-transfer, and purchase of joint tickets. Currently, 120 railway stations across the country can achieve convenient transfers. At the same time, the railway department will timely add trains in popular directions and sections based on the pre-sale and alternate ticket purchase data of railway 12306 tickets to increase capacity supply and meet passengers' holiday travel needs. Starting from April 1, elderly frequent travelers over the age of 60 will receive a 15-fold discount on the face value after boarding the bus, and the points you can redeem for train tickets.

The Railway 12306 website (including mobile client) is the only official channel for China Railway to provide Internet ticketing services to the society. It is committed to providing fair, just, warm and convenient ticket purchase and travel services to the majority of passengers. It has never authorized any third-party platform to issue train tickets and handle train ticket-related services. There is no additional charge for ticket purchase acceleration packages, ticket purchase membership fees, and seat selection fees. When changes or refunds occur, the personal information security of passengers is strictly protected in accordance with the law. Please be sure to purchase tickets through the official railway channel, identify the 12306 official website and the 12306 official app, and at the same time confirm that the receipt of the ticket price is "China Railway Network Co., Ltd.", to avoid the inability to receive the refund when subsequent ticket refunds or changes are made.