Some turn to scalpers for tickets home after long waits in lines
By Xu Wei | China Daily | Updated: 2011-09-30 08:15
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Passengers stand in line to buy train tickets at Nanning Railway Station in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Wednesday. Lu Boan / for China Daily |
BEIJING - Zheng Yuanjie, a renowned Chinese writer of children's literature, was recently disappointed to find that he couldn't buy a train ticket even after he had stood in line at a ticket office for more than an hour.
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