Main Stories in today's BON News:

Beijing Restaurant Explosion
Shanghai Security Clampdown
Xinjiang Oil Reserve
Poll Public Smoking
Straight from the Street: National Day Plans?
Net Check:Rising Ticket Prices
Feature: 1954 Parade

The arrival of the Spring Festival – the Chinese New Year - means movement of people on a massive scale as virtually the entire country tries to return home for the holiday. And much of that travel will be by rail - which means opportunities for unscrupulous ticket scalpers.

This year over 210 million people are expected to use China's railways. That means hugely overcrowded trains, lining up – sometimes for days - to buy scarce tickets,and unscrupulous scalpers.

This year the country's Ministry of Railways has announced a pilot project – known as the, "real name ticket system". It aims to deal with the scourge of those who buy up tickets then sell them at inflated prices. At 37 stations in the southern provinces of Guangdong, Hunan and Sichuan each passenger will be allowed to buy just three tickets after providing one piece of ID per ticket. Many travelers like the idea.

The US transportation department revealed that there are some people using the pastiche ticket to take tube for free. The pastiche ticket could allow people to pass the underground entrance with no limitation. The US transportation security department announced that they have confiscated 33 pastiche tickets last year and 15 this year. The average price for this kind of ticket is around 27 US dollars.

As Matt Schrader reported, those inflation figures are causing quite a bit of concern here. Unsurprisingly, people are worried about things like the rising cost of food, and everyday items.

But there's also concern that the government's figures don't reflect reality here. As we reported, the government says overall prices were up 2.8% from a year ago, and that food prices rose 5.9%. But China's army of internet users have been casting doubt on those figures.