12306已成世界最大實時票務交易系統大綱

, China's official website for purchasing railway tickets, has become the largest of this kind in the world, with combined sales reaching 3.5 billion in 2017.
我國火車票購票官網12306網站已成爲世界最大火車票購票網站，2017年該網站交易總量達35億張車票。

"If all these train tickets were lined up, they would circle the earth 7 times," said Zhu Jiansheng, deputy director of the Institute of Computing Technologies with the Chinese Academy of Railway Sciences, where the ticketing system was developed.
該車票系統由中國鐵道科學研究院電子計算技術研究所研發。該研究所副所長朱建生稱：“如果所有這些車票排列起來，可以繞地球7圈。”

Since its launch in 2010, the 12306 ticketing system has been upgraded many times to fix bugs and provide better service during the Spring Festival travel rush, or Chunyun.
自從2010年開通運營以來，12306票務系統已多次升級以修復漏洞，並在春運期間提供更好的服務。

The system sold around 1.1 million tickets during the 2012 Spring Festival travel rush. Last year it sold 11 million over the same period.
2012年春運期間，12306網站系統約售出110萬張車票。去年，該系統售出的車票數量同比增加1100萬張。

Around 280 million train tickets have been sold on since Jan 3, 2018 when tickets for the Spring Festival holiday started selling.
今年1月3日春節假期車票開售以來，約有2.8億張火車票是在12306網站上售出的。

The sales volume peaks at around 15 million per day, with nearly 700 tickets sold in every second.
銷量高峯每日售票量約1500萬張，每秒售出近700張車票。