The Chinese rail ministry, which has a monopoly on ticket sales, introduced the www.12306.cn website last year to tackle black-market transactions and to ease lines at stations that often leave passengers waiting for hours.
About 6.75 million tickets are being sold in total each day, 13 percent more than a year earlier, Cheng Xiandong, a rail ministry official, told the state-run People’s Daily newspaper this week. The weeklong holiday, which this year begins Feb. 9, is the world’s biggest annual mass migration.
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