Police have also been deployed to help the efficiency of ticket services.

Police have also been deployed to help the efficiency of ticket services. On Tuesday, with the help of local police in Shenzhen city, more than 60 Tibetan compatriots born in China's Sichuan Province, received train tickets back home.

Meanwhile, foreign students studying in China have also benefited from the measures implemented by the Chinese government. An express line from Nanning, the capital city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, has opened. It now only takes 10 hours for the passengers to reach home.

Fan Heming, a Vietnamese student, who is studying in Southwest Jiaotong University, "This has offered much convenience, it could take me home directly and swiftly, saving lots of money on food and accommodation."

Travellers by air and bus are also bracing the peak travel period. Various measures have been taken to help alleviate the stress of the Chinese Lunar New Year rush. Airports and bus stations have all extended their selling hours and have opened more ticket booths.

In the face of shortages of train tickets for the holiday rush, the fight against fake tickets has also been under spotlight. Police have clamped down on ticket scalping and selling counterfeit tickets. Police have so far investigated more than 2,000 cases of ticket scalping and have arrested about 2,400 suspects with more than 60-thousand fake tickets.

(CCTV January 16, 2009)