The 2023 Spring Festival is approaching. According to the arrangement that train tickets will be sold 15 days in advance, the train tickets on the 2023 New Year's Eve (January 21) will be officially sold on the 7th. Before grabbing tickets, pay attention to these new changes! Train tickets will be sold on New Year's Eve on the 7th, and the 2023 Spring Festival will start on January 7th and end on February 15th, with a total period of 40 days. According to the arrangement that train tickets are sold 15 days in advance, on January 5, passengers can buy train tickets for January 19 (the 28th day of the lunar month), January 6 can buy train tickets for January 20 (the 29th day of the lunar month), and January 7 can buy train tickets for January 21 (New Year's Eve). It is understood that in order to fully meet the travel needs of passengers and facilitate passengers to buy tickets at home, the railway department has formulated a scientific passenger train operation plan. Among them, 6077 pairs of passenger trains are scheduled to run on the peak days before the festival and 6107 pairs on the peak days after the festival. The maximum passenger capacity is 11% higher than that of the spring transportation in 2019 before the epidemic. In addition, China Railway Group said that in order to meet the diversified needs of passengers, as required, it will add night peak line EMUs in some high-speed rail channels with tight capacity, and run sleeper EMUs on Beijing Guangzhou and Hangzhou Shenzhen high-speed railways. At the same time, the railway department analyzes the passenger travel law, dynamically studies and judges the trend of passenger flow, and arranges the delivery of transport capacity in echelons according to the pre booking and standby data of railway 12306 passenger tickets, so as to achieve the accurate matching of transport capacity and demand. Advocate passengers to cross peak travel and strengthen the ventilation and disinfection of key places This year, the epidemic prevention and control during the Spring Festival transportation attracted extensive attention. With the further optimization of epidemic prevention and control policies, cross regional personnel mobility will be released at an accelerated pace, and the prevention and control of epidemic situation and transportation service guarantee for the 2023 Spring Festival comprehensive transportation will face a new situation. How to maximize the health of passengers and employees and minimize the impact of the epidemic on the Spring Festival transportation? In this regard, the railway department advocates passengers to travel off peak, reduce personnel gathering, strengthen the organization of passenger flow at the station, actively promote contactless services, guide passengers to enter the station in an orderly manner and keep a safe distance. In addition, the railway department will strengthen the ventilation and disinfection of key places such as toilets, hand basins, elevator handrails, seats, etc., to maintain a good environment for stations and trains; Strengthen travel health promotion tips, guide passengers to wear masks throughout the journey, and strengthen their own health protection; Strictly standardize the health protection of the front-line employees of the railway Spring Festival transportation, and strengthen the integrated management of cleaning, security inspection, catering and business outsourcing personnel; Strengthen road and ground joint prevention and control, and orderly handle emergency response. There is a change between purchasing child discount tickets and student discount tickets! The new version of Railway Passenger Transport Regulations will come into force on January 1, 2023. Among them, the provisions on children's preferential tickets and students' preferential tickets have changed. In terms of preferential tickets for children, the national railway adopts the real name system for the management of preferential tickets for children, and the preferential standards are divided by age. For children accompanying adult passengers, children over 6 and under 14 years old will buy child discount tickets, and children over 14 years old will buy full price tickets. Each adult passenger with a ticket can take a child for free. The age of the child is less than 6 years old according to the date of taking the bus and does not occupy a seat alone. If there is more than one child,