[Look at China along the highway] "Willful" high-speed service area: 18 free services are warm as home
[Explanation] The 2,000-kilometer-long Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway serves as China's north-south transportation artery, connecting Beijing, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Hong Kong, Macau and many other important cities.
On this highway, there is a "willful" service area, which has been talked about by many drivers and passengers.
After the long-distance travel, 18 free services make the drivers and passengers feel warm at home.
[Explanation] Recently, the reporter visited the "Willful" service area described by the drivers and passengers-Henan Yuanyang Service Area.
During random interviews, the reporter found that there are not a few regular customers here, and they are also very good at introducing free programs.
[Concurrent] Truck driver Mr. Zhang
The Yuanyang service area is pretty good. It provides a lot of free services. It’s more "willful" to be able to take a bath and haircut for free.
Every time I walk here, I will stop for a while. It feels like I am at home. It is safe and at ease.
There are not so many (free) service items in other service areas. For so many years, we often run this line and come here to take a break every time.
[Explanation] In addition to rest, if the drivers and passengers have plenty of time, it is also pleasant to wash and bathe here.
In the laundry room, washing machines, drying racks, ironing equipment, etc. are all available.
After the shower, the staff can also provide free massage for a short period of time to those in need.
After this wave of services, most of the fatigue of long-distance driving will be wiped out.
[Concurrent] Truck driver Mr. Zhang
The massage was done once too, which was very good.
Bathing, massage, and sleeping are free accommodations, which is great for truck drivers and feels like home.
[Concurrent] Han Xiaoyin, a staff member of the free bathing area in Yuanyang Service Area
Provide a little free simple massage for a short time, such as cervical spine and lumbar spine. Sometimes they drive for a long time and feel very painful, so I give him a simple massage.
I have been here for five years, and the number of drivers I have called has been tens of thousands (person-times). They take a shower and I give him a simple massage. He will feel very relaxed.
[Explanation] It is understood that the Yuanyang service area covers an area of 200,000 square meters, integrating catering, shopping, parking, accommodation, bathing, hairdressing, laundry, leisure, entertainment, e-commerce, and vehicle refueling, refueling, charging, washing, and cooling. The overall design draws on the experience and good practices of many advanced service areas in foreign developed countries. It has been successively rated as a model unit and a highway service area by the Ministry of Transport of China and the Department of Communications of Henan Province. Five-star expressway service area.
[Explanation] Currently, the Yuanyang service area receives more than 10,000 vehicles per day, and provides 18 services such as free bathing, free haircuts, free laundry, free cart cooling, and free car washing with water. Let the service area be widely welcomed by drivers and passengers from all over the country.
Those who come here to enjoy free services are mostly truck drivers who travel long distances.
Private cars account for a relatively small proportion.
[Concurrent] Yuanyang Service Area Office Director, New Student
Yuanyang Service Area has been adhering to the principle of giving priority to social benefits for many years, adhering to the service concept of being a thousand miles away, and providing 18 free service items for the majority of drivers and passengers. Since its opening in 2008 to the present, it has always adhered to this policy.
Since the opening of our 18 free services, we have served more than 30 passengers a day, and at most, it has reached hundreds of people a day, which is generally welcomed and recognized by the passengers.
Reporter Li Chaoqing from Henan
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]