tickets on the Nanjing–Shanghai route have a magnetically encoded stripe for future use of automatic ticket inspection gates being implemented at major stations along the route, whilst tickets on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen line have embedded RFID microchips which can be read by proximity readers mounted above the ticket gates.
Tickets on the Nanjing–Shanghai route have a magnetic strip for future automated inspection, similar to those on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen line which have embedded RFID chips for proximity reading.