CCTV News: According to @China Railway, on May 1, the national railway is expected to send 22.5 million passengers, and 1,341 passenger trains are planned to be added. On April 30, the national railway sent 18.316 million passengers, an increase of 11.5% year-on-year, and the transportation was safe, stable and orderly.

As of 12:00 on May 1, Railway 12306 has issued a total of 106 million tickets for the May Day holiday, and has handled 43.56 million ticket refunds and 10.83 million tickets for reissue. In response to the rumors that "large amount of tickets were released before May 1st", relevant responsible persons from the Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center introduced that on April 29 and 30, the Railway 12306 issued about 19 million tickets on April 12306, and the ticket sales remained stable, without obvious fluctuations, and the system was operating normally. There are new ticket amounts in individual directions and sections: First, in order to meet the passenger's holiday travel needs to the maximum extent, the railway department continues to tap the potential of capacity based on data such as candidates, dynamically add passenger trains in popular directions and time periods, arrange for EMU trains to reconnect, and increase capacity to maximize capacity. Among them, 1,740 passenger trains were added on April 30; Second, some passengers temporarily changed their itinerary and carried out ticket refunds and rebooking operations, and the corresponding ticket amount returned to 12,306 system and rebooking were resold. Among them, 6.01 million tickets were refunded and 2.059 million tickets were rebooked during the May Day holiday on April 30. The ticket amounts generated above will be immediately entered into the 12306 system and will be re-sale. The system will be given priority to passengers who have submitted alternate needs. For this reason, it is recommended that passengers who have not bought their favorite tickets yet can use the 12306 waiting ticket purchase function, and a total of up to 60 "date + train" combinations can be selected.

From the current remaining tickets on 12306, during the May Day holiday, Shanghai will travel from Nanjing, Guangzhou will travel from Shantou, Zhanjiang, Changsha, Chengdu will travel from Chongqing, and there will be enough remaining tickets; Beijing will travel from Shanghai, Chengdu will travel from Xi'an, Wuhan will travel from Shiyan and Enshi, Hangzhou will travel from Wenzhou, Kunming will travel from Dali and Jinghong, Shenyang will travel from Dalian, Changchun will travel from Yanbian, and there will be still remaining tickets; Shanghai will travel from Wenzhou, Xuzhou, Huangshan, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Shenyang, Handan will travel from Beijing, Shenzhen will travel from Shantou and Chaozhou, Wuhan will travel from Xiangyang, Zhangjiajie will travel from Changsha, Changsha will travel from Huaihua, Luoyang will travel from Xi'an, Nanning will travel from Guilin, Harbin will travel from Jiamusi and Mudanjiang. There will be still remaining tickets. Passengers in need can check and purchase tickets through the Railway 12306 website or client.