(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Directly hitting Hubei Provincial Sub-centers Yichang and Xiangyang: "Resuscitation" of Traffic Artery

China News Agency, Yichang, March 25th: Heading to Hubei Provincial Sub-centers Yichang and Xiangyang: The “recovery” of the traffic arteries is gradually returning to urban vitality

Author Guo Xiaoying Hu Chuanlin

According to the Hubei Provincial New Coronavirus Infectious Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters announcement, starting at 00:00 on March 25, areas outside Wuhan City will be deregulated from the Hubei channel, and external traffic will be resumed orderly. "Safe and orderly flow.

Xiangyang, Hubei issued the first inter-provincial return to work high-speed rail train. The picture shows the orderly arrival of migrant workers. Photo by He Ruimin

Yichang and Xiangyang are sub-central cities in Hubei Province. China News Agency reporters visited the two places on the 24th and 25th respectively and found that with the "recovery" of the traffic arteries, the two "heavyweight" cities in Hubei Province except Wuhan have gradually recovered their vitality.

Cities "Moving": Return to Work and Return to Work

At 8 am on the 25th, Yichang citizen Liu Hongsong drove to the entrance and exit of the Yiba Expressway. There were vehicles waiting in line in front of them. The high-speed traffic police and road administration personnel guided the traveler to scan the QR code. The high-speed traffic police told him that personnel travelling with the "Hubei Health Code" took the initiative to scan the code and let the green code pass. Travelers holding health codes from other provinces will manually check the codes and release the green codes.

"I went back to my hometown in Dazhou to see my mother today, making up for the regret that I couldn't go back in the New Year." Liu Hongsong said, took out his mobile phone and scanned the QR code. With a beep, the green code is displayed. With the green code, Liu Hongsong's car passed the toll station of the expressway and drove away towards his hometown.

At the entrance of the Longzhong Expressway in Xiangyang on the 24th, Hu Min, the leader of the Xiangcheng Tanxi Police Platform Brigade responsible for managing the area, told reporters that in the past 3 days, the traffic volume on and off the high-speed highway has soared. Many vehicles, with about 3,500 people on board, had a long queue. The platform strengthened the police force, adopted measures such as pre-guided scanning, on-site guidance, and establishment of error correction zones to improve traffic efficiency.

In addition to high speeds, the railway sector is also sending positive signals. China Railway Wuhan Bureau Group Corporation announced on the evening of the 24th that, starting at 00:00 on the 25th, it will resume the arrival and departure business in Hubei Province except 17 stations in Wuhan.

At 10:17 am on the 25th, the first cross-provincial "point-to-point" high-speed rail train was launched at Xiangyang East Station, and 520 employees of China Chemical Engineering Sixth Construction Co., Ltd. were returned to Yantai, Shandong to return to work.

Yichang East Station resumed passenger transportation on the 25th. From the early morning, 33 pairs of trains stopped at the station. Previously, Yichang's "point-to-point" resumption train set off from the station, and more than 1,000 migrant workers returned to work in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.

In terms of airports, the Three Gorges Airport completed its comprehensive killing work on the 25th, and released news that it will work with Hainan Airlines Wuhan Sales Department and other airlines to resume flights to Beijing, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Haikou, Zhuhai and other routes, and increase Fare concessions and discounts to fully protect the travel needs of migrant workers in Hubei.

Business is picking up: shops open

Large shopping malls, supermarkets, and commercial complexes opened their doors to welcome customers, and more and more stores opened for business.

The reporter saw at the entrances of some shopping malls in Yichang and Xiangyang that customers received temperature checks and entered with green codes. In the mall, customers consciously wear masks and keep their distance, ordering goods in an orderly manner.

Around Xiangyang North Street, major banks have resumed operations. At a bank in Xiangcheng Cross Street, citizens have waited in line at the door since 8 am. "We don't have a good bank card. We can only use a passbook to get money." Said an old man who was queuing. The bank had a limited number of 30 in the morning.

The reporter learned from the Xiangyang Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau that as of the 24th, 1,241 restaurants in the urban area of ​​Xiangyang had opened, and they could only be packed away and not eaten.

At the moment when the crayfish is on the market, many restaurants in Xiangyang are hung with "Shrimp Delivery" signboards. Citizens can sit at home and eat a refreshing and delicious crayfish just by placing an order on the phone or through a takeaway platform. Citizen Ms. Zhang said that she had already tried out the takeaway, but the price was not expensive, ranging from 200 yuan to 300 yuan for a pot of prawns.

In Tangjiawan, Xiling District, Yichang City, Jiantou Caishi and Tangyueshe have resumed business. After measuring body temperature and scanning health codes, citizens entered the market to buy vegetables. The vegetable market is clean and tidy, and a 60-meter-long ink map of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River winds and rolls. People wear masks, buy freely, and scan and pay.

"The city's fireworks and city gas are" hidden "in the vegetable market." Yibin citizen Wang Bin said that he likes to visit the vegetable market because he likes the beautiful relationship between people, even wearing a mask. Can see the smile in people's eyes.

The sun was getting higher, Wang Bin walked out of the vegetable market with two sacks of vegetables, humming the song, riding a small motorcycle, and heading towards the home. (Finish)