Real name registration traps an elderly man at train station

In order to curb the rampant ticketing scalpers and counterfeit tickets during the overcrowded Spring Festival travel season, Chinese government implemented real name registration policy requiring people to buy tickets with their ID cards, despite concerns from the public that the personal information will be leaked.

Unfortunately, on Jan. 8, 2012, at the rail station in Taiyuan, Shanxi, an aged migrant worker found trouble, due to the real name registration policy, to buy a ticket to Tianjing to meet his daughter and celebrate the Spring Festival together there, because he had no ID card with him (presumably lost).

The poor old man, holding a walking stick and carrying a plastic bag and ragged coat, was then stranded at the station, and found helpless.

At the end, a patrol police learned the matter, and came to help the elderly man. The police first of all helped get a temporary ID card for him from a relevant department, and then bought him a ticket (by giving him the financial aid too because the old man did not have enough money for the ticket from Taiyuan to Tianjing).

Overwhelmed with gratitude, the elderly man wept and knelt down before the police to thank him. Check out the photos below.