The official website of the Ministry of Railways announced on the 18th that under the strategic cooperation agreement signed with China UnionPay, the implementation of electronic railway payment will not only allow bank cards, mobile phones, telephones, and the Internet to pay for tickets, but will also issue IC cards to realize ticket purchase and ticket checking. The integration goes quickly.
The Ministry of Railways has been promoting more advanced sales methods. On September 13 , when Liu Zhijun, the Minister of the Ministry of Railways, took a train on the Shanghai-Hangzhou intercity high-speed railway EMU train, he requested that he build and manage the Shanghai-Hangzhou inter-city high-speed railway. The railway will comprehensively increase ticketing, waiting, traveling, taking off and landing, etc. Service level, carefully build high-speed rail service brand.
The Ministry of Railways has opened a running online “Railway Customer Service Center†to provide information on train times, fares, remaining tickets, and late arrival status. The self-service ticketing machines of the Shanghai Railway Bureau also provide payment functions for bank cards and railway IC cards. However, relative to airlines and other industrial and commercial enterprises, railways started late in the field of e-commerce and their movements were small and far from satisfying public demands.
As the railway ticket sales agencies charge 5 yuan for the passengers , instead of internal digestion by the railway bureau. Therefore, once IC cards and bank cards, mobile phones, telephones, and Internet bills are issued to generate costs, the railway is likely to pass on to passengers in a routine manner, which is in contrast to the sales model of airlines, online shops, and retail companies. In order to encourage agents to issue tickets, airlines also give certain rebates. The more tickets are issued, the more rebates are made, and passengers are never charged. People concerned admit that the railway system has still not completely changed its concepts.