CCTV News:According to the official news of China Railway,Official answerHow to allocate long-distance tickets and short-distance tickets.
Summer vacation is just in time.
Many people say that train ticket sales are too hot.
Short-distance tickets are often not available.
Mingming 12306 shows that there are tickets for the whole journey.
But the stopover can only be "standby"
What the hell is going on here?
How much are long-distance tickets and short-distance tickets?
Due to the "cluster" of passenger travel demand during the summer vacation, the transportation capacity is tense in stages. In this case, the railway department will give priority to the long-distance passengers from the starting station to the terminal to maximize the utilization of transportation resources.

If the short-distance ticket is sold openly, it will directly occupy the ticket amount of long-distance passengers, and there will be fewer opportunities for long-distance passengers with rigid demand and small choice. At the same time, long-distance tickets will be sold randomly in sections, which will inevitably cause some sections to be idle and the transportation capacity will not be fully utilized.
Of course, the railway department will also take into account the needs of short-distance passengers. When the long-distance ticket amount is sufficient, it will dynamically adjust the ticket amount according to the change of demand, and automatically transfer some tickets to stations along the way in different periods to meet the needs of short-distance passengers.
How to allocate tickets for each intermediate station along the route?
The basic principle of railway ticket allocation is to make it as convenient as possible for passengers along the route to purchase tickets and make the best use of railway transport resources, which is mainly based on the historical passenger flow and ticket pre-sale at the departure station and stations along the way.
According to this, the railway department will dynamically optimize and adjust the ticketing strategy. When the pre-sale of long-distance tickets fails to meet expectations, the railway department will adjust some tickets to stations with demand along the way; When the demand for pre-sale of departure station tickets is relatively strong, the reservation of departure station tickets will be increased.

Since the summer vacation this year, the national railways have operated 10,169 passenger trains every day, an increase of 14.2% compared with the same period in 2019, and the overall efficiency of the road network has been further improved, providing protection for summer passenger transportation.
What if I can’t buy a through ticket?
In order to meet the travel needs of passengers who have no through train, or who have a through train but have no spare tickets, Railway 12306App provides a transfer service function. After the passenger submits the travel demand, the system will show the differentiated railway transfer routes to the passenger according to the train schedule, the remaining tickets, and the time consumption of public transportation between different railway stations in the same city.

Transfer in 15 minutes. Is that enough time? Sure! At present, the railway department has increased the number of convenient transfer stations that can realize transfer without leaving the station to 100, and opened convenient transfer passages in the stations, thus avoiding the trouble of passengers leaving the station first and then entering the station through security check.
Alternate ticket purchase helps you.
At present, passengers can submit two alternate tickets for adjacent dates to the same station or different stations in the same city every day, from the previous two to five.

Never "buy short and multiply long"!
In order to ensure the safety of train operation, railway vehicles have certain passenger capacity restrictions. For safe, high-speed and smooth running high-speed trains, the restrictions on passenger capacity are more stringent.
At the peak of passenger flow, if a large number of passengers who buy short-distance tickets do not get off at the station, the number of carriages will be overcrowded, which will seriously endanger the safety of train operation and affect the normal transportation order.