All you experienced FT'ers in China now, I'm not and won't be back for awhile. Yet I need to update the Train part of the Master Transportation Thread. If anybody can verify or refute the following by checking with reliable sources preferably the railway system itself, I'd be grateful:

--Normal advance booking for online ticketing via the official website is now 20 days in advance instead of the previous 12 days.
--This applies to all trains both standard and HSR, and is now the standard policy.
--Normal advance booking for in-person sales at ticket windows (stations, satellite office) is now 18 days in advance instead of the previous 10 days. Also applies to both standard and HSR trains.
--There may still be times (i.e. Chinese New Year) when the online and in-person sales periods will be cut back to a shorter time frame.

Thx in advance. This change is significant enough that I don't want to wait to get updated info into the Master thread.