Read a Train Ticket

China Train Tickets

There are three kinds of paper tickets issued by China Railway.

1 Soft paper tickets with a red shading.

2 Magnetic medium tickets with a blue shading.

3 Substituting tickets written by the working staff of the railway stations. It only happens in some particular cases.

The paper ticket shows the departure station, arrival station, seat type, ticket price, train number, departure date, valid date, ticket number, two-dimensional code, name and ID number of the passenger.

 

Read a Train Ticket

Train Ticket Service Policy

Booking

1. The pre-sale period of the train tickets is usually 60 days. It is shortened sometimes due to Spring Festival Rush or change of running schedule. As a result, the tickets may not be released on time. We will keep an eye on it and book the ticket you ordered as soon as they are released. It is advised that you book the tickets a few days in advance to guarantee availability.


2. When you book a ticket online, it is of great importance that you input you first name, last name and passport number correctly in the form, i.e. your information must be exactly the same as on your passport. Otherwise, you cannot get on board. Note that your name and passport number cannot be changed once your tickets are booked.


3. The dynamic information of ticket sales changes every minute. On certain date, some trains sell out in seconds. We’ve tried to update the sales information( e.g. the remaining tickets) in time, however, we cannot guarantee its accuracy.


4. The total price includes the price paid for the ticket, our service fee plus the PayPal fee, if applicable. The final price may be slightly different from time to time due to the changing exchange rate or depend on the sleeper we purchase (low, middle and upper sleepers have different prices).

How to get your tickets

After you have finished booking tickets on our website, you can get your tickets either by printing out the paper tickets by yourself at the train station or asking us to deliver the paper tickets to your hotel in China.

Once we have confirmed your booking, we will send you an email with an E-ticket number. If you want to print out the paper ticket by yourself at the train station, you have to show the E-ticket number and your passport to the staff of the ticket office, then the staff will print out the paper ticket for you.

Change and cancellation

Change

According to the China Railway, the departure date, the arrival station, train number, seat or sleeper type can be changed once for free before the train departs. The departure station, passengers’ name and passport number cannot be changed.

The official website of China Railway is only available between 6:00 and 23:00 (Beijing time). Since it will take some time for us to change the ticket, we will need you to inform us at least 24 hours in advance.

Tickets can only be changed successfully when there are unoccupied tickets available.

If you have printed out the paper ticket or ask us to deliver the paper ticket to you, then the ticket cannot be changed by us. You need to change the ticket by yourself at the departure station or the station where the tickets are printed. Please take your passport and the paper ticket with you.

Cancellation

All the train tickets can only be cancelled before the train departs.

If you booked an E-ticket and haven’t printed out the paper ticket, we can cancel the ticket online. We will refund you the money after we receive the money from China Railway.

The refund policy of the train station

More than 15 days before departure	Refund 100% of the ticket price
48 hours to 15 days before departure	Refund 95% of the ticket price
24 hours to 48 hours before departure	Refund 90% of the ticket price
Within 24 hours before departure	Refund 80% of the ticket price
After train departed	No refund

The official website of China Railway is only available between 6:00 and 23:00 (Beijing time). Since it will take some time for us to process the cancellation, we will need you to inform us at least 24 hours in advance.

If you have printed out the paper ticket or have asked us to deliver the ticket to your hotel, then we cannot cancel the ticket for you. You need to cancel the ticket at the train station by yourself at the departure station or the station where the ticket is printed. After cancelling the ticket, you will not get the refund instantly, instead, you will be given a receipt. Keep the receipt in case we need you to show us the photocopy. We will refund you the money after China Railway return the money to us.

If you miss the train, you can only try your luck to change the train to a later one on the same day if there are tickets available. If not, your tickets will be invalid.

 

 

Train Ticket Service Policy

Refer a Friend

A personal referral is the best type of compliment. We would like to thank our clients who recommend us to their friends and family with a 10% of their payment up to $50 per person. If you have booked a vacation with ChinaTour.Net in the past and enjoyed your personal experience, we would like to encourage you to share that experience with your friends and family and have them contact one of our Personal Travel Advisors to ensure their next vacation is a fabulous one.

How it works:

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Then refer a friend or family member to a ChinaTour.Net Travel Advisor.

Make sure the friend or family member mentions your name to the Travel Advisor during their initial consultation.

Once your friend or family member purchases and fully pays for their preferred tour, vacation package or cruise, we will send you a 10% of their payment up to $50 per person, as a small token of our gratitude for trusting us with your friends and family.

Conditions:

* The referring customer must have booked a vacation with ChinaTour.Net in the past.

* The “Refer a Friend” $25 American Express Gift card is applicable and paid after the referred client purchases and pays in full for a preferred cruise, tour, or vacation package greater than $2,500 with one of our Travel Advisors. The vacation cannot be purchased online/self-booked. The referring customer and the new customer will both receive a $25 American Express Gift Card once all the requirements have been met.

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Three Gorges Tribe

The Three-Gorges Tribe Scenic Spot consists of the Village on the Water, the Brook-Side Village, the Mountain Village. The area has been officially designated as a “Protected Center of the Popular Culture and Art of the Three Gorges.” The Three-Gorges Tribe is located on Xiling Gorge in the city of Yichang, between the Three-Gorges Dam and the Gezhouba Dam, in a region of mountains and streams where the scenery has the beauty of landscape paintings. Young women dance and sing as old sailboats moor placidly below stilt houses hidden in the bamboo grove. Maidens wash clothes by the brook side with their whirling batons, fishermen cast their nets in the misty distance… Entering the region feels like coming from afar into a dreamland garden.

At the juncture between the Longjin Brook and Yangtze River locates the Village on the Water, where the scenery, with the green mountains covered by mist against the blue water, is like a beautiful landscape painting. The people here, from generation to generation, live off the mountains and waters, and stretch their ancient culture of fishing life.

Located by a stream and against mountains, the Stream-Side Tribe is surrounded by mountains full of greenness, with the half on the land and the half into the water. You will feel like slandering in the fairyland with the fine rain breezing.

Three Gorges Tribe

White Emperor City

Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, White Emperor City is facing the mouth of Qutang Gorge. It is the best place to view Qutang Gorge.

The name White Emperor City was named by Gongsun Shu, who claimed himself the King of Shu and called himself the White Emperor.

In the history, a lot of Chinese poets had been here and leaving a large number of poems.

The cruise of Yangtze River usually pass through White Emperor City. Most cruise will stop at Fengjie Port and take a optional shore excursion to the scenic site.

History

Originally called Ziyang City, the White Emperor City was constructed by Gongsun Shu when was in the saddle of Sichuan at the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

During the Three Kingdoms Period, the Baidi Temple became more important due to the heroes. In 222 AD, Liu Bei-the emperor of Shu State fell ill near White Emperor City after his defeat. Before he died, he entrusted the state affairs as well as his son to Zhuge Liang the Prime Minister.

In the Ming Dynasty, the statue of Gongsun Shu was replaced by Liu Bei’s, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang respectively.

Today’s White Emperor City was restored during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Architecture & Structure

In the Baidi Temple, you will have the chance to appreciate the ancient architecture such as Tuogu Tang (Entrusting Son’s Hall) which is the most outstanding destination. Moreover, the Mingliang Palace dedicated to the statue of Gongsun Shu is worth paying a visit. Besides, the Observing Stars Pavilion (Guanxing Ting) is also a good resort where Zhuge Liang once observed stars and then improved the strategy of using arms.

Also famed as City of Poems, there’re more than 70 poems, carvings as well as cultural relics during several dynasties.

However, scenic spots are not just what we have mentioned above. Therefore, you should come and see in your own eyes.

Present condition

Nowadays, a wind and rain bridge has been constructed at the foot of the temple for easy access to it. Moreover, a dock was also built for visitors to tour White Emperor City by boat.

White Emperor City

History

Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan, vibrant and economically prosperous city in the world, is originally a fishing village on a mudflat which almost literally overnight became a great metropolis.

Inevitable meeting place of world travelers, the habitat of people of forty-eight different nationalities, of the Orient yet Occidental, the city of glamorous night life and throbbing with activity, Shanghai offers the full composite allurement of the Far East.

Not a wilderness of temples and chop-sticks, of jade and pajamas, Shanghai in reality is an immense and modern city of well-paved streets, skyscrapers, luxurious hotels and clubs, trams, buses and motors, and much electricity.

Less than a century ago Shanghai was little more than an anchorage for junks, with a few villages scattered along the low, muddy banks of the river. What it will be a hundred years from now is a test for the imagination. Principal gateway to China, serving a hinterland population of more than 200,000,000, many close observers believe it will become the largest city in the world.

Although neighboring cities like Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou figure spaciously in the flourished in ancient China, Shanghai is very rarely mentioned. It was the domain of the Kingdom of Wu of the Spring and Autumn Period. Shanghai was so called not until in the Song Dynasty.

But when the British opened their first concession here in 1842, after the first Opium War, it was little more than a small town supported by fishing and weaving. Change was rapid. The French turned up in 1847 and it wasn’t long before an International Settlement was established. By the time the Japanese rocked up in 1895 the city was being parcelled up into settlements, all autonomous and immune from Chinese law. Enter China’s first fully fledged Special Economic Zone.

The world’s greatest houses of finance and commerce descended on Shanghai in the 1930s. The place had the tallest buildings in Asia, and more motor vehicles on its streets than the rest of China put together. Shanghai became a byword for exploitation and vice, in countless opium dens and gambling joints, in myriad brothels. Guarding it all were the American, French and Italian marines, British Tommies and Japanese bluejackets.

The foreigners no longer had control and by 1949, Shanghai was transformed by the Communist Chinese government. As the foreigners left, the businesses that were left behind were one by one taken over by the government.  After losing ground during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, Deng Xiaopeng’s open door policy allowed for the advancement back to being an international force in business and finance.

The city continues to grow with new underground stations highways crisscrossing the city, the most modern stock exchange in the world and two new cultural institutions. However despite the growth and international investment Shanghai is still a city of contradictions as poverty is still prevalent.

History

Yangtze River & Three Gorges

The Yangtze Three Gorges, one of the ten most famous tour sites of China, proundly stands at the top of  best 40 in China’s hottest scenic spots. Meanwhile, it also enjoys the reputation for one of the best 35 China’s king scenic spots and 16 special touring routes.  Your step into Yichang will take you to the greatest paintings of  elegant Three Gorges gallery. Though the Three Gorges Project reservoir  began reserve water. The Three Gorges stand still with their  elegance  and verve. The Xiling Gorge is still deep and serene., the Wu Gorge is still beautiful, the Qutang Gorge is still steep and magnificent. At the same time, the new Three Gorges bring you new infinite new views. New sceneries created by the reservoir will add extreme mysteries to you, and make your trip rich and colorful.

Yichang, as the door of the three gorges, is the optimal place for the marvelous and attractive tour through Three Gorges.

The Three Gorges consist of the Xiling Gorge, the Wu Gorge and the Qutang Gorge. And they extend over 193 km from Daidi Castle in the west, Fengjie county of Chongqing municipality, to Nanjin Guan of Yichang city in the east, Hubei province. It’s the prime landscape along the Yangtze River, as well as the treasure of the China mountains and rivers. Through ages, the charming gorges have admired thousands of foreign and Chinese tourists whole heartedly.

Beautiful Sightseeings

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Chongqing

Chongqing, located in the southeastern part of the Sichuan Basin, where the Yangtze and Jialing rivers meet, is the largest industrial and commercial city in southwestern China and the economic center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is a metropolis under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Government. Called Yu for short, Chongqing was established some 3,000 years ago.

Fengdu

Fengdu, with fantastic temples of underworld demons and gods, is constructed on the Mingshan Hill by the river band. It is known as the “Ghost City” and is a place for punishing the devil and awarding the good.

Shibaizhai

Shibaozhai architecture consists of three parts: the gate, the pagoda and the temple on the top. A nine story red wooden pagoda with upturned eaves 50m high, dates back to the Qing Dynasty.

Wanxian

One of the most important and largest ports on the Yangtze. It is widely known for its variety and hustling markets. Fifty percent of the city will be resettled after the Three Gorges Dam Project is complete.

Fengjie (Baidi City)

The Baidi City lies in the eastern part of Fengjie, four kilometers away. Famous poets such as Libai, Dufu, Liu’yuxi, Luyou, Fan Dacheng have ever been here, so the Baidi City is well known as “the Poet City”. There are two famous legends, one is “the seven hundred connected barracks were burned”, and the other is “the orphan was put in trust in Baidi City”.

Three Gorges

Gorges extends 193 kilometers along the Yangtze River and is one of China’s  most naturally beautiful areas, cultural history and sources of tourism.

Qutang Gorge The shortest of the Three Gorges (8 kilometers). It is considered the most dramatic by many visitors. The river navigates through the gorge’s sheer, steep cliffs where the Meng Liang staircase from the Song Dynasty can be seen.

Wu Gorge 44 kilometers long. The gorge is known for its deep valleys and forest covered mountains.

 Xiling Gorge The longest of the three (66 kilometers). The banks are covered with orange orchards. Along this gorge sit many archeological sites, including the Huangling Temple, first built during the Three Kingdoms Period.

Wushan

Wushan, the Three Small Gorges, referring to the three separate valleys of the Daning River, are respectively, Dragon-Gate Gorge, Misty Gorge and Emerald Gorge. You can take a small junk to enjoy these marvelous spectacles of nature.

Shennong steam

Shennong stream is located at the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in Hubei Province. The 60-kilometer Shennong Stream rises in the southern part of Shennongjia Nature Reserve and joins the Yangtze River at Xirangkou in Badong County. Its natural beauty and local color have attracted the interest of overseas tourists. You might see large and small karst caves, home of many swallows, a world of high cliffs, deep gorges, flying waterfalls, three-colored springs, the ancient trestle path the suspended coffin in the cliff, the groups of ancient tombs and marvelous karst formations and also catch a picture of Tujia’s local and traditional style of living.

The average flow of the stream is 20 cubic meter per second a year. It is an ideal place for drafting tour with a very good experience of adventures without any danger.

Lesser Three gorges

Lesser Three gorges,made of Longmen Gorge,Bawu Gorge and Dicui Gorge,is 50 kilometers long.The river is very shallow,and the water is lucid.It is full of steep peaks.Its beauty is even superior to the Three gorges .The mini three gorges of Madu River,5 kilometers long,is situated at the Madu riverside of the branch of Daning River.You may drift around the mini three gorges:Sancheng Gorge,Qinwang Gorge,Changtan Gorge.

Zigui

Zigui is located at the exit of Xiling Gorge, near which Xiangxi (Fragrant Stream) joins the Yangtze River. There erected a tomb and a memorial pavilion for Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet in ancient China. One may take a dragon ship in the Fragrant Stream and see the native town of Wang Zhaojun, a famous beauty in ancient Chinese history.

The dam

The dam site is 27 miles upstream from Yichang City proper, at Sandouping Town, 38km upstream from the Gezhouba Dam Lock, inside the third of the Three Gorges. One of the largest construction projects ever undertaken in the world, the Three Gorges Project will forever change the face of the Yangtze River as we know it today. Possessing comprehensive utilization benefits mainly for flood control, power generation and navigation improvement. It will be a vital important and backbone project in harnessing and developing of the Yangtze River.

Shashi (Jingzhou)

Jingzhou, a well-preserved ancient city, was also a place for its strategic importance. Many historical relics are unearthed here, among which the bronze articles, silk and lacquered wares are very notable. A more than 2000-year-old male body in the museum is the most ancient corpse in a good state of preservation in China.

Wuhan

Wuhan, capital of Hubei Privince, is located at the confluence of the Yangtze and Hanshui rivers. The municipality is composed of the three towns of Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankou. The city, as the heart land of China is an important transportation hub. Main tourist attractions include East Lake, Yellow Crane Tower, Yangtze River Bridge, Guiyuan Temple, Ancient Lute Terrace and the provincial museum where musical bronze bells of 2,400 years old are displayed.

Yangtze River & Three Gorges