Hunt ongoing for train ticket home

With train tickets for Feb 15 - Lunar New Year's Eve - going on sale online on Wednesday, hundreds of millions of Chinese will try every means to buy themselves a seat for the journey home.

The 40-day Spring Festival travel rush runs from Feb 1 to March 12. People can buy tickets online or by phone 30 days in advance, and presales at railway stations, ticket agencies and self-ticketing machines are available 28 days ahead.

From Jan 3 to 14 - the first 12 days of the booking campaign - a total of 133 million train tickets were sold, with daily ticket sales reaching 11 million, an increase of 3.2 percent over the same period of last year, according to China's railway operator.