Train booking software comes at a high price

SOME SOFTWARE for the online booking of train tickets comes bundled with compulsory purchase items. Beijing News comments on Tuesday:

Chinese residents are expected to make more than 3 billion trips during this year's chunyun, the annual travel period that lasts about 40 days from January to February with Spring Festival as the peak. More than 10 percent of those trips will be by train.

Most of the train tickets for this period are booked online from late December to mid January, and the huge demand can sometimes paralyze the online train ticket booking system.