{"id":19634,"date":"2019-09-06T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/beijing-shanghai-high-speed-train-tickets-cheaper\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:45:15","slug":"beijing-shanghai-high-speed-train-tickets-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/beijing-shanghai-high-speed-train-tickets-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train tickets cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tTravelers will enjoy discounts when buying business-class tickets and premium seats on Beijing-Shanghai high-speed trains from June 27, according to the Ministry of Railways.<\/p>\n<p>  \tBusiness-class tickets for the 85 high-speed trains operating on the country&#39;s busiest railway line will be reduced by 10 to 20 percent, while tickets for premium seats will be cut by 10 percent, according to a statement posted on the website of the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>  \tAfter the price cut, business-class tickets will be lowered to between 1,400 yuan ($222.22) and 1,575 yuan from the current 1,750 yuan. Prices of premium seats will stand at 949 yuan, down from the current 1,055 yuan.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe discounts will vary according to different trains, the time of ticket purchases and the day of departure, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe ministry&#39;s move aims to attract more passengers to business class, which has been suffering from low attendance.<\/p>\n<p>  \tHowever, Zhao Jian, professor at the Beijing Jiaotong University, said the new policy may have little effect as the discounts are not big enough.<\/p>\n<p>  \tHe suggested that railway authorities instead adopt a floating pricing system like airline companies to maintain competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>  \tNew words:<br \/>  \t\u9ad8\u94c1g\u0101o ti\u011b\uff1ahigh-speed<br \/>  \t\u8f66\u7968ch\u0113 pi&agrave;o\uff1atrain ticket<br \/>  \t\u4eac\u6caaj\u012bng h&ugrave;\uff1aBeijing-Shanghai<br \/>  \t\u5546\u52a1\u8231sh\u0101ng w&ugrave; c\u0101ng\uff1abusiness-class<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4009645200\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers will enjoy discounts when buying business-class tickets and premium seats on Beijing-Shanghai high-speed trains from June 27, according to the Ministry of Railways.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-city-guide"],"views":143,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}