Letters

High-speed train tickets a problem

I visited China recently and traveled by high-speed trains, which were most impressive. But I realized that it is not easy for foreign tourists to book tickets for these trains.

While a foreign tourist is able to get the train schedules from mobile phone applications, he/she cannot buy tickets from the self-operated machines because he/she does not have a Chinese identity card. Therefore, a foreign tourist has to queue up at a ticket counter to buy a train ticket. Another problem is that the ticket counters are not open round the clock.