Ticket-selling capacity of 12306 website upgraded

2018-02-05
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Staff members monitor the 12306 website from behind the scenes at the ticket system monitoring center of the China Academy of Railway Sciences in Beijing, Feb 2. [Photo/Xinhua]

According to Zhu Jiansheng, deputy director of the Institute of Computing Technology at the China Academy of Railway Sciences, the daily ticket-selling capacity of 12306 rose from 10 million to 15 million.

Since the release of tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush on Jan 3, 2018, a total of 350 million tickets have been sold. The internet still is a major channel for selling tickets, with 280 million tickets sold online.

On average, 9.37 million tickets are sold every day, exceeding the peak number in 2017 - 9.33 million. The daily ticket-selling peak reached 11.357 million. So far, there have been 10 days with more than 10 million tickets sold.

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