China's Ministry of Railways are considering cutting ticket prices for the new bullet train services, which begin on April 18, after disappointing initial sales.
Tickets for China's new high-speed trains went on sale on Saturday as the first bullet trains will hit the track next Wednesday, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Railways here Saturday in Beijing.
China's nearly three decades' drive to reform and develop its economy has yielded, in addition to the remarkable growth of wealth, a pool of celebrated economists.