Ticket discounts enhance travel peak experience

China will adopt deeper ticket price discounts and enhance transportation capacity during the upcoming Spring Festival holidays to guarantee people's travel needs and experiences, senior travel officials said on Friday.

"We plan to increase the discounts on ticket prices with a maximum of 80 percent off for regular trains and 70 percent off for high-speed trains, further benefiting the general public," Wang Jinxi, deputy general manager of China State Railway Group, said at the national Spring Festival transportation teleconference.

According to Li Chunlin, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, this year will witness surging demand for return trips home, to visit relatives and travel, due to the recovery of the economy and this year's comparatively long Spring Festival holiday.