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Now summer is in full swing here in China and for many that means vacations – and for the lucky ones maybe even a trip home or on holiday with friends. As we reported recently her on BON the number of people using lanes to travel across country is increasing rapidly – but for most long distance travel still means the bus or train. More travelers means a higher demand for tickets – and, as always in China, there are entrepreneurs ready to cash in on that demand – unfortunately for rail travelers this translates into illegal scalpers. Due to the difficulty in buying tickets online more than ten days in advance - or even round trip tickets to most destinations, there is a profit to be made by those who buy up tickets to popular destinations and later sell them at a mark up.

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In the first year after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, an average of almost 20,000 visitors toured the Olympic Park each day. But as memory of the Olympics faded so to did the number of visitors - to just a few hundred a day. Now, in a bid to encourage more visitors, tourism officials in Beijing have opened a new theme park near the Olympic Stadium. BON's Kelda Yuen has more on the how the city government hopes promoting a green world will mean more green for them.

More than 210 million passengers are expected to crowd China's railways during the upcoming Chinese New Year. This figure is up nearly 10 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Railways. And for the first time, thousands of travelers will have named tickets.

The first 600,000 travelers with real-name tickets have already set off from Guangdong Railway Group's many stations in southern Guangdong Province. They are the first to benefit from the country's latest attempts to curb ticket hoarding after years of unsuccessful crackdowns against scalpers.

As we've reported, the scheme is being piloted by China's Ministry of Railways in Guangdong province. And if successful, it will likely be rolled out across the country. In today's Poll Position we look at a poll by the English language China Daily which has been gauging people's reaction to the scheme.