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Chengdu starts selling train tickets for Mid-Autumn holiday

Chengdu Railway Bureau says that the sale of train tickets for the first day of the short Mid-Autumn Festival holiday officially started on August 18.

Mid-Autumn Festival will last from September 6 to 8, and the railway passenger flow is expected to be dominated by people visiting friends and relatives and students going back to schools in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other provincial capitals as well as Kunming, Guiyang, Chongqing, Lijiang and some other popular tourist destinations.

Chengdu Railway Bureau will actively adjust its transport capacity by adding and reconnecting multiple units, adding more carriages and changing hard sleepers to hard seats to meet passengers' travelling needs.

According to the 20 days pre-sale period of tickets via the internet and phone, tickets for the first day of the short holiday can be purchased in advance by internet and phone from today – August 20. Passengers can also buy train tickets for the short holiday at ticket booths and agencies.

Chengdu Railway Bureau reminds passengers that they have to purchase a ticket with valid identification, and take that ID with them when entering the station. Only passengers can enter the station and take a train under the premise that the ticket matches the passenger and his or her identification.

The railway authority's pre-sale period of student tickets is 30 days, and students can purchase tickets for hard seats of different passenger trains and second class seats of multiple units before others through www.12306.cn, via the mobile phone app of 12306, telephone booking through 95105105, ticket agencies, special ticket windows for students at railway stations and other methods; newly enrolled students of universities, colleges and technical secondary schools can purchase student tickets at specified windows at railway stations with their letter of admission.

Edited by Brian Salter, Huang Pei