China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. released its transportation plans for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays today to help passengers who need to book tickets in advance to access relevant information.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is from September 25th to 27th, and the National Day holiday is from October 1st to 7th. According to the holiday transportation plan released by China State Railway Group, the railway transportation for the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays will begin on September 23rd and end on October 8th, lasting 16 days. October 1st is expected to be the peak day for passenger flow. In accordance with the rule that train tickets are sold 15 days in advance, tickets for September 23rd will go on sale starting today.

During the holiday travel period, the national railway will implement a peak-hour operation schedule, with an average of approximately 13,000 passenger trains scheduled to run daily. The 12306 railway website will utilize big data analysis to promptly grasp passenger travel demand and implement measures such as adding overnight high-speed trains and high-speed sleeper trains, coupling multiple train sets together, and adding carriages to regular passenger trains to dynamically optimize and adjust train operation plans, maximizing transport capacity on popular routes.

On the mornings of September 25, September 28, September 30 to October 2, and October 6 to 8, overnight high-speed trains will be scheduled to run on major high-speed rail lines such as Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Guangzhou, and Beijing-Harbin.

On September 23, 24, 29, 30, and October 1, 6, 7, and 8, additional high-speed sleeper trains will be added on routes from Beijing to Shenzhen, Nanning, Zhanjiang, Zhuhai, Chaoshan, Kunming, and Hong Kong; from Shanghai to Huizhou, Foshan, Guangzhou, and Zhuhai; and from Shenzhen to Taiyuan. On September 29 and October 6, additional high-speed sleeper trains will be added on routes from Beijing to Chengdu and Guiyang; from Shanghai to Yibin; and from Chengdu to Shenzhen and Zhuhai, to meet the travel needs of passengers during the holidays.

Special tourist trains such as "Starlight·Yanzhao" and "Panda Special Train," as well as tourist lines such as "Qilu No. 1·Cultural Relics Study Train" and "China's Snow Capital·My Altay," will continue to operate during the holiday, enriching tourists' travel options.

Customized "fan-only trains" and "sports fan-only trains" will be launched to create new consumption scenarios and promote the expansion and improvement of service consumption.

The operation of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link for trains to and from Hong Kong, as well as international passenger trains between China and Laos, China and Mongolia, China and Russia, China and Vietnam, and China and North Korea, will facilitate cross-border travel. (Source: CCTV News)