Every year, Oct. 1 is China's National Day, and the 7-day holiday from 1st to 7th is also called the "Golden Week".
This year's "Golden Week" collides with the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, which also means that the 8-day-long holiday is about to start!
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How to grab a train ticket
Online：（the pre-sale period is 30 days. It means tickets for Oct. 1 can be purchased from Sept. 2）
＋12306 (China Railway Customer Service Center) Official website: www.12306.cn
＋Cellphone APP “铁路12306”
＋National railway unified telephone booking number: 95105105
Offline：（the pre-sale period is 28 days. It means tickets for Oct. 1 can be purchased from Sept. 4）
＋Service windows at railway station
＋Train ticket sales agents
＋Automatic ticket vending machine
What if I don't grab the ticket?
Wait-for-Purchase Service
1.Use the "候补购票服务(Wait-for-Purchase Service)" function on the China Railway 12306 website and App.
When there is no ticket for the required train and seat, passengers can submit their wait-for-purchase requirements, and start waiting online after pre-payment of the ticket.
The ticket sales system will automatically redeem the tickets when the tickets of corresponding train and seat are generated for sale due to ticket-refunds, ticket changes and other services. The success rate of using this serviceto get a ticket is high.
①30 minutes after the opening of the sale, if any passenger fails to pay in time, the ticket will be returned to the system for sale;
②15 days before the train departure - It is the peak time for ticket-refund;
③48 hours and 24 hours before the train departure - The system will release some remaining tickets at these 2 time points;
④Generally, the period from 22:00 to 23:00 is the peak time for ticket-refund;
⑤Each stop has a certain percentage of the allocated tickets.If there are unsold tickets, the remaining tickets will be sold again the day before the train departure.
Railway department reminded
By the way, the railway department also reminded passengers to log on tothe China Railway Customer Service Center12306 website to purchase online tickets so that they can avoid third-party websites from leaking their personal information.
Editor｜Vicki Song
Translator｜Eric Ye
Source｜www.news.wendu.cn
