China News Finance, January 3 (Reporter Zhang Ni) There is less than one month before the Spring Festival of 2022. According to the arrangement of train tickets being sold 15 days in advance, starting today, the first day of the Spring Festival in 2022 (January 17) Japan's train tickets will be officially grabbed.

During the Spring Festival this year, the number of railway passengers sent nationwide is expected to reach 280 million.

In order to implement the epidemic prevention and control, the railway department has introduced a series of strict measures.

Data map: In the waiting hall of Shanghai Hongqiao Station, passengers are waiting in an orderly manner.

Photo by Wang Chengwei

New adjustments will be made to the service of refund and change of train tickets on the first day of the 2022 Spring Festival travel today

　　The Railway Spring Festival Transport in 2022 will start on January 17 and end on February 25, a total of 40 days. According to the arrangement of train tickets being sold 15 days in advance, on January 3, 2022, the railway department will start to sell train tickets for the 2022 Spring Festival Transport.

　　On January 15, passengers can buy train tickets for January 29 (the twenty-seventh of the twelfth lunar month), on January 16 they can purchase train tickets for January 30 (the twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month), and January 17th. Train tickets for the 31st (New Year's Eve).

　　From the perspective of railway passenger traffic, this year will have a significant increase over last year.

According to the China Railway Group, during the Spring Festival Transport in 2022, the national railways are expected to send 280 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 28.5%.

　　The reporter learned from the National Railway Group that in order to adapt to the travel laws of passengers under the conditions of epidemic prevention and control, the railway department has improved service measures for ticket sales and refunds and changes.

These include:

　　① To extend the ticketing service time of 12306 website (including mobile client) from 5:00 to 23:30 every day to 5:00 to 1:00 the next morning (except every Tuesday);

　　②Provide a 24-hour Internet refund service, the deadline for refunds is extended from 25 minutes before the departure of the station to the departure, and the 12306 client terminal is added to the refund channel without login;

　　③The service of ticket change after driving, which can only be processed at the ticket issuing station, will be added to the online processing channel, and the electronic ticket change function will be added at the self-service ticketing terminal at the same time;

　　④Adjust the latest cut-off time for standby ticket purchase from 6 hours before driving to 2 hours; provide passengers with temporary electronic identity certificates for boarding.

Data map: photo by Hu Yan at Nanchang Railway Station

Travel time for these routes is shortened during the Spring Festival

　　From 0:00 on January 10, 2022, the national railways will implement a new train operation map, adding 96 pairs of passenger trains and 65 pairs of freight trains.

　　After the adjustment of the map, the total number of passenger and freight trains in the country reached 5,231 and 10,606 respectively. The train operation structure has been continuously optimized, and the passenger and freight transportation capacity has been further improved.

The high-speed rail transportation capacity from the central and eastern regions to the Guangzhou-Shenzhen region has been further improved, effectively shortening the space-time distance between the two places.

　　After adjusting the map, Nanchang West via Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed rail to Shenzhen North can be reached in 3 hours and 30 minutes, which is 1 hour and 8 minutes faster than the existing Shanghai-Kunming and Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed rail; Hefei South via Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed rail to Shenzhen, the fastest 6 It can be reached in 48 minutes, which is 2 hours and 15 minutes faster than the existing ECO-Fuzhou high-speed rail and Hangzhou-Shenzhen high-speed rail; Nanjing south via Ning'an, Anjiu high-speed rail and Changjiu intercity, Changgan high-speed rail, Ganshen high-speed rail to Shenzhen, the fastest It can be reached in 7 hours and 43 minutes, which is 3 hours and 07 minutes faster than the existing high-speed railways via Nanjing-Hangzhou, Hangchang, Hefu, Nanlong, Longzhang, and Hangzhou-Shenzhen; The fastest can be reached in 6 hours and 50 minutes, which is 1 hour and 14 minutes faster than the existing Shanghai-Kunming and Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railways.

Data map: On October 30, 2021, the staff of Harbin West Railway Station checked the health code and itinerary code of passengers.

Photo by Sun Hanlun issued by China News Agency

The railway strictly controls the passenger rate of trains and needs to pay attention to the nucleic acid test requirements

　　In terms of epidemic prevention and control, the railway department has also taken a number of measures this year.

　　This includes: in the ticket sales link, strictly control the passenger rate of trains, implement decentralized ticket sales for trains with conditions; in the train link, guide passengers to orderly and dispersedly enter the station and wait for the train, and strictly follow the requirements of the territorial government to do temperature test codes, etc. Work, strictly prevent passengers who do not meet the boarding requirements from entering the station and boarding the train; in the train operation link, strengthen the station and train broadcast propaganda, reserve quarantine seats in accordance with the regulations, and handle the passengers in a scientific and orderly manner once the epidemic-related passengers are found.

　　In addition, in order to strictly implement the overall plan for the prevention and control of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics, the railway department will provide services to the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway Qinghe, Yanqing, Taizicheng, and Chongli from January 21 to March. A 55-day closed-loop and non-closed-loop management will be implemented on the 16th, and closed-loop personnel and ordinary passengers will not overlap each other; for the winter Olympic transportation service special carriages and special trains, strict ventilation and disinfection work shall be carried out to ensure the prevention and control of winter Olympic transportation Work.

　　It should be noted that due to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, many places across the country currently require nucleic acid testing for personnel entry and exit.

　　For example, Beijing currently requires a certificate of negative nucleic acid test within 48 hours and a "Beijing Healthbao" green code when entering or returning to Beijing.

Within the 14th, there are new local residents who have lived in the county where the new crown virus is infected and strictly restricted from entering and returning to Beijing. Within the 14th, the residents who have lived in the county where the land border port is located do not have to come back to Beijing.

　　Inner Mongolia requires urban residents at local land border ports to hold a certificate of negative nucleic acid test within 48 hours when traveling.

　　Therefore, passengers should always pay attention to the epidemic prevention and control requirements at the place of departure and destination and arrange their itinerary reasonably.

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