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The national train ticket website (www.12306.cn) has received more than 1 billion hits daily from Jan. 1 to Jan. 7.

It is the very first time that Chinese railway opens national online ticketing system and ticketing hotlines, Hu Yadong, vice-minister of railways, said on Sunday.

Thanks to these new ways, an average of 2 million train tickets were sold in each of the past few days and one third of passengers no longer need to queue up for hours at train stations or ticket agencies. So far, at least 10 million people have been registered at the website, said Hu.

It is estimated that more than 3 billion passengers will be transported in 2012’s Chinese Spring Festival season, up 9.1 percent from a year earlier, which hits a new record.

During the Spring Festival travel season Chinese rail will handle more than 235 million passenger trips, increasing 13.5 million trips or 6.1 percent, or 5.88 million passenger trips each day.

According to statistics, since 1990s the number of passengers has increased 5.6 percent annually. In recent years the annual net increase of passenger volume hits 200 million, nearly up 10 percent year on year. Last year, a total of 2.9 billion passengers were on the move during the Spring Festival travel season.