How to buy a return ticket? Official support →

The National Day Mid-Autumn Festival has passed more than half.

What should I do if I haven’t bought a ticket for the popular train?

Try the alternate ticket purchasing function of Railway 12306.

How to use the alternate ticket purchase?

Open the Railway 12306App, click the "Alternate" button on the ticket inquiry page, and add it to the "Alternate Order" in the lower right corner.

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The waiting list shows the selected waiting trains and seats. Click "Next" to enter the page of confirming the waiting order.

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After adding more standby trains, you can view all the information of standby trains, including date, trains, seats and intervals, at the top of the confirmation standby order page.

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Turn on the "Accept new trains" option to set the redemption conditions for new trains.

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After submitting the order, you can view the estimated success rate of the current standby order (the estimated success rate is calculated according to the historical standby order redemption for reference), and you can also view the standby details and modify the deadline redemption time.

Notes on alternate ticket purchase:

Each user can keep six waiting orders to be cashed at the same time.

You can select up to 3 boarding dates for each standby order, and add no more than 60 combinations of "date+train number" in total.

Up to 9 passengers can be added.

The deadline for cashing standby orders is no later than 20 minutes before driving.

The railway department reminds us that the Railway 12306 website (including the mobile phone client) is the only official online ticketing channel for China Railway. It is committed to providing passengers with fair, just, safe and convenient ticket purchase and travel services, and has never cooperated with any third-party platform organization. Please be sure to purchase tickets through official channels.


source: China Railway

Editor: Chongxin Rong Media Center/Li Wenhui

Editor: Chongxin Rong Media Center/Jing Yanbo

Audit: Chongxin Rong Media Center/Zhang Huping Wu Wenbin