Do you need paper tickets for the high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai? Is it possible to enter the station directly with the second-generation ID card?

The high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai can be boarded directly by swiping your ID card. As of August 7, 20 17, the timetable of high-speed trains from Beijing to Shanghai is shown in the figure below.

If you use your ID card to buy tickets at 12306.cn website, and both the boarding station and the disembarking station have the conditions of ID card ticket checking, you can check in and out of the station directly through the automatic ticket checking machine (gate) with your ID card without exchanging paper tickets. Paper tickets have been changed. When purchasing tickets, please show the paper tickets and the original valid identity documents of the passengers for ticket checking and real-name registration system registration system verification.

In any of the following circumstances, please exchange paper tickets after purchasing tickets and before driving, and then get in the station:

(1) Use the resident ID card to purchase tickets, but you don't have the conditions to use the resident ID card to check tickets when you get on or off the station.

(two) the use of identity cards to buy tickets, but the original identity card can not be produced or read on the automatic ticket machine.

(three) the use of other valid identity documents other than the resident identity card to purchase tickets.

(four) the use of peer valid identity information to buy children's tickets.

(5) Buy student tickets and disabled soldiers tickets.

(6) Stop at the midway station according to the date and number of bus tickets purchased.