Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news

The peak period  for rail ticket sales during the upcoming National Day holiday has arrived. Nearly all tickets were sold out for some itineraries by September 30, the Shanghai Evening Post reported today.
"Yesterday morning, many people crowded into our sales office, and we had to start sales half an hour before schedule", said a salesperson at the rail ticket sales outlet on Beijing Road E. "We also added three sales windows, each with eight to ten people waiting in queues, and in less than one hour, two windows were closed as the tickets were sold out", he indicated. He also mentioned that this sales boom  is expected to last for several days to come.
Most tickets from September 27 to 30 have been sold out, especially for long itineraries to places such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan, Changsha, Qingdao and Changchun.
The local railway department has introduced more short-haul trains to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wuxi, Nanjing, Huangshan Mountain and Wenzhou from September 27 to October 8.
As tickets can only be sold at a maximum of ten days in advance, this sales boom will last for the coming several days, said an industry analyst.