Bye, paper tickets! High-speed rail tickets to go paperless from next year
TIME:2018-07-20
According to the China railway corporation,all high-speed railways in China will allow passengers to travel by swiping their id CARDS,so say goodbye to paper tickets.
Electronic tickets will be rolled out nationwide in 2019,lu dongfu,party secretary and general manager of China railway corporation,announced at the BBS conference on"intelligent high-speed rail development and the 10th anniversary of the opening of the beijing-tianjin intercity railway".
Passengers may be able to"swipe their mobile phones"or"swipe their id CARDS"to enter the station directly,instead of having to exchange paper tickets before taking a bus.
E-ticket,also known as"paperless"ticket,refers to the fact that passengers who order tickets through the Internet do not need to exchange paper tickets,and can directly hold the second generation of identity CARDS and other valid identity documents through the station entrance and ticket gates.
This move is not unusual,in fact,as early as in China to achieve the real name train ticket system management in the beginning of the gradual implementation,I believe that many friends have directly brush id card ride experience.
The history of the upgrade of train tickets in China:
First generation:cardboard train tickets
Second generation:soft paper train tickets
Third generation:magnetic medium train tickets
Fourth generation:paperless train ticket-id card