Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, December 17th: Mimeng high-speed railway opens to traffic: "Three-line intersection" reflects the great changes in Southwest China

  Xinhua News Agency reporters Li Yin, Ji Zhepeng, Ding Yiquan

  On the morning of December 16, a train of white "bullets" stopped at Platform 5 of Honghe Station, Mengzi City, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Passengers with smiles on their faces took photos with the Harmony EMU.

At 9:40, the train left Honghe Station, marking the official opening of the 106-kilometer Mile-Mengzi high-speed railway.

  Mengzi realized the "high-speed rail dream", reflecting the century-old changes in China's railways from meter gauge to high-speed rail.

More than 100 years ago, Mengzi, a city in southwestern China, had an indissoluble bond with railways.

In 1910, the Kunming-Hekou section of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was completed and opened to traffic. Trains with a gauge of only one meter passed through Honghe Prefecture, and Mengzi had meter-gauge.

Time flies, and the meter gauge gradually cannot meet the development needs. In 2013, the Yuhe Railway (Yuxi to Honghe, Yunnan) was completed and opened to traffic. The quasi-gauge railway with a gauge of 1435 mm broadened the development space of Mengzi.

  Today, the Mimeng High-speed Railway, Yuhe Railway, and Yunnan-Vietnam Railway meet in Xinle Village, Yuguopu Street, Mengzi City.

Looking down from the air, the three railway lines are intertwined up and down, forming an "iron triangle" inlaid between fertile fields and villages - the Yuhe Railway is at the top, the Mimeng High-speed Railway is in the middle, and the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is at the bottom.

  The "Iron Triangle" has witnessed the development of China's Southwest Railway, which has changed the predicament of dangerous terrain and narrow roads, making it difficult for people and horses to travel, and is striding forward in the direction of "connecting the river to the sea and connecting the surrounding areas".

Statistics from the Department of Transportation of Yunnan Province show that in 1949, the mileage of railways in Yunnan was only over 600 kilometers, but now it has exceeded 5,000 kilometers.

  "The speed of the Mimeng High-speed Railway is 250 kilometers per hour, and it only takes 69 minutes from Kunming South Station to Honghe Station." Shi Liang, deputy director of the Passenger Transport Department of the China Railway Kunming Bureau Group, said that the Mimeng High-speed Railway is a link between the two major urban agglomerations in central Yunnan and southeastern Yunnan. The convenient passenger transportation channel will play a positive role in accelerating the urbanization process along the route, promoting the development of tourism resources and rural revitalization in ethnic minority areas.

  The "Iron Triangle" is the scenery in the eyes of tourists, and it is also the way for local people to get rich.

"I have seen steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives and high-speed trains pass by my house. The Dongfanghong, the 'Hulk' Fuxing, and the Harmony are each faster than the other." Seeing that the number of railways in front of the house has increased from one to three , Li Weixiang, a 56-year-old villager in Xinle Village, is full of longing. He said that if there are more roads and faster speeds, the road to development will naturally be wider.

  These three railways are not only witnesses to the development of the times, but also silently watching the changes of Xinle Village.

In the past, there were adobe houses in the village, but now they have become solid brick houses. The mud roads have been replaced by cement roads, and the industry has transformed from traditional agriculture to facility agriculture.

  "Great greenhouses can be set up to grow tomatoes on 3 mu of land, and the income has doubled compared with before." Gao Meng, Secretary of the Party Branch of Xinle Village, said that Xinle Village relies on convenient railway access to connect with the market more accurately and sell vegetables and fruits. To the inside and outside of the province.

There are 373 people in 86 households in the village. Last year, the per capita net income of farmers exceeded 16,000 yuan.

  The three railways connect infinite possibilities of development. The old days of "vehicles, horses, and mail are all slow" are gone forever.

Zhao Ruijun, secretary of the Honghe State Party Committee, said that large-scale transportation will lead the development, speed up the construction of Honghe's three-dimensional comprehensive transportation network, give full play to the high-speed rail's radiation-driven effect and element agglomeration function, and strive to run out of the "high-speed rail speed" of high-quality development.

  It is reported that the Mimeng High-speed Railway connects Nanning-Kunming High-speed Railway in the north and Kunming-Hekou Railway in the south. It is an important part of the railway passage from Southwest China to ASEAN countries, and it also provides a strong transport capacity for Yunnan to build a radiation center for South and Southeast Asia. support.

  Today, from the China-Laos Railway, the Dalin Railway to the Mimeng Railway, the construction of international major passages has made "the mountains are no longer high and the roads are no longer long". Railway hub and frontier.