1.4 Billion Clicks And China's Train Booking Website Collapses (ChinaForbiddenNews) 12th January 2012

On January 9th, the Chinese official train booking website,
12306.cn, collapsed with over 1.4 billion clicks.
This website was developed and maintained by
a subsidiary of the Ministry of Railways.
Its server could not support the high volume traffic and
experienced multiple failures.
Some passengers were charged for failed bookings.
The website has become the target of complaints.
People believe the state monopolized booking authority
suffers from lack of free market competition and lack of professionalism.

In China, going home for the Chinese New Year has become
one the biggest challenges of the year.
This year, train ticketing went online for the first time.