What's the buzz

As the Spring Festival draws near, the race to secure railway tickets for the peak travel period has become so white hot that getting a ticket was compared to the monk Xuanzang's odyssey to fetch scriptures from the West. Have you secured your ticket back home? China Daily's mobile phone news readers share their views:

Thank goodness I have already got a ticket. I recommend that everyone should use his or her smartphone because it is faster. Before the tickets went on sale, I calculated which day I should buy my ticket, checked the train times and times when the tickets would be on sale, and was ready to grab a ticket immediately they went on sale. Even so, there were few tickets left and I was a little lucky to get one. Hopefully all readers got the ticket they wanted, and the government can make greater efforts to make it easier for people to go back during the Spring Festival holiday.

PHILIP, Wuhan, Hubei province