Chinanews.com.cn, Yanchi, Ningxia, April 27th. Title: Ningxia section of Qingyin Expressway: "China's Tanyang Hometown" goes out from here

  China News Service reporter Yang Di

  Repairing door frames, installing ceiling lights, designing wooden cabinets... Recently, Wang Xuebin, a villager in Nanwangjiquan Village, Yanchi County, Ningxia, is hiring workers to decorate and renovate his house.

Wang Xuebin told reporters that he currently raises more than 100 sheep and earns 100,000 yuan a year easily. This is largely due to the opening of the high-speed.

Ningxia section of Qingyin Expressway.

Photo by Xie Yu

  The high-speed mentioned by Wang Xuebin refers to the Ningxia section of Qingyin Expressway.

In 2006, the Qingyin Expressway, which started from Qingdao City in Shandong Province and ended at Yinchuan City in Ningxia, was fully connected and became one of China's horizontal traffic arteries.

Among them, the Ningxia section of Qingyin Expressway is 141 kilometers in length, which is a major passage that opens to the east in Ningxia.

  The Qingyin Expressway traverses Yanchi County, Ningxia, known as the "Hometown of Tanyang in China", and strengthens the connection between Yanchi County and Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, and surrounding important cities, and becomes an important channel for Yanchi Tanyang to "go out".

Ningxia section of Qingyin Expressway.

Photo by Xie Yu

  "Before the highway was repaired, I only raised more than 20 sheep. At that time, the traffic was not good, and the roads were all gravel roads." Wang Xuebin told reporters that at the time, due to factors such as backward traffic conditions, the market for his Tan sheep was very poor.

  After the opening of the Ningxia section of Qingyin Expressway, Wang Xuebin also gradually enjoyed the "dividends" of convenient transportation.

"The road is better, the information is smooth, and there are more people buying sheep." Wang Xuebin said, now that as long as a phone call, merchants from other provinces will ride along the highway to buy Tanyang, and there is no need to worry about the sale. problem.

After the opening of Qingyin Expressway, Wang Xuebin's sheep sold better and better.

Photo by Xie Yu

  In Yanchi, there are many farmers who choose to sell their tan sheep to the local Yanchi Tan sheep industry group, which will carry out intensive processing of the tan sheep and sell them all over the country.

"At present, we have a daily slaughter capacity of 1,000. The mutton products are mainly sold to 28 provinces and regions and more than 50 cities across the country." Huang Minghong, head of the slaughter and processing plant of Yanchitan Sheep Industry Group, introduced that the mutton products produced by this company have passed Qing Yinchuan Expressway transports to Yinchuan, and then from Yinchuan to various large and medium-sized cities.

"After the Qingyin Expressway is completed, the time from Yanchi to Yinchuan has been shortened from more than three hours to one and a half hours, so that the mutton from Yanchi can quickly enter consumers' tables."

  For mutton products, which require cold chain transportation, the speed of logistics is very important. Feng Yansen, the driver of the Yanchi County Branch of China Post Group Co., Ltd., has a deep understanding of this.

Feng Yansen told reporters that before the Qingyin Expressway was opened, the freight drivers took the 307 National Highway with narrow roads and many cars. In addition, there was a lot of wind and sand at the time, and the road was filled with sand from time to time, so the shovel used to shovel sand became the freight driver’s. Standard configuration".

"Now that the Qingyin Expressway is opened, the logistics and transportation time has been greatly saved." Feng Yansen said.

Feng Zhongbao, deputy general manager of Yanchi County Branch of China Post Group Co., Ltd., also said that Qingyin Expressway has become the only way for Yanchitan sheep export.

Ningxia section of Qingyin Expressway.

Photo by Xie Yu

  Not far from the Yanchi toll station on the Ningxia section of the Qingyin Expressway, several Tanyang statues stood quietly, seeming to tell the rich story of "China's Tanyang Hometown".

Data show that in 2020, the number of sheep raised in Yanchi County will reach 3.2055 million, the output of mutton is 28,000 tons, the output value of the entire industry chain of Tan sheep is 6.4 billion yuan, and the per capita disposable income of farmers is 14,000 yuan.

The Ningxia section of the Qingyin Expressway has also led to the development of characteristic industries such as Tanyang, and opened up an external channel for the people of Yanchi to become rich. In 2017, Yanchi County was lifted out of poverty and became the first national-level impoverished county in Ningxia to withdraw from the impoverished county sequence.

(Finish).