China News Service, Urumqi, January 22 (Tao Shuanke) The 22nd is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Under the Ganquanbao overpass on the Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway, about 30 kilometers away from Urumqi, traffic policeman Wang Linxiang stood in the cold wind to guide the traffic. From 8:00 am on the 21st to 12:00 am this morning, they were on duty for 28 hours.

  "This snowstorm just happened to coincide with the peak of returning home for the New Year. Everyone is very eager to go home. Traffic cannot be controlled across the board. For the safety of the people returning home, our hard work is nothing." Wang Linxiang said.

  Wang Linxiang, 27 years old this year, is a traffic policeman of Fukang Brigade, a high-level highway traffic police detachment of the Xinjiang Traffic Police Corps. This is his fifth Spring Festival on duty on the expressway.

When the reporter was interviewing, he received a video call from his mother. He and his mother wished each other "Happy New Year", and his mother told him to pay attention to his body and wear more clothes.

Wang Linxiang and his mother made a video call on the first day of the new year, wishing each other a happy new year.

Photo by Tao Shuanke

  The Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway is an expressway connecting Beijing and Urumqi, Xinjiang, running through Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Xinjiang.

This year is the first Spring Festival after the epidemic prevention and control has entered a new stage. There are many people going out of Xinjiang and the traffic flow is heavy.

According to statistics from Fukang Brigade of Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway, the traffic volume on the 21st exceeded 18,000 vehicles.

  For Wang Linxiang, he always has a sense of responsibility in his heart when he is on duty on the expressway.

In the past few days, the temperature in Urumqi has been close to minus 20 degrees, and the weather is very cold. A police car is both a post and a "home".

"At 2am this morning, traffic was reduced and I rested in the car for a few hours before getting back to work."

  "In recent years, there have been some snowflakes during the Spring Festival, but this year the snow is too heavy. It fell intermittently for two days, and the thickness of the snow was more than 10 centimeters. After the snow cleaning vehicle passed, there was still a layer of ice on the road. In order to ensure traffic safety, our police car took Drive on the road at a low speed to prevent traffic accidents." said Fan Bin, an instructor of the Fukang Brigade of the Highway Traffic Police Detachment of the Xinjiang Traffic Police Corps.

  Fan Bin said that during the Spring Festival, the focus is on safety.

Everyone is in a hurry to go home during the holidays. Some people are in a hurry to drive tired, which is prone to traffic accidents. In case of bad weather, the traffic police will strengthen police cars to lead the way, guide, clear, command prompts, and be on duty 24 hours a day.

  According to reports, in order to ensure the safety and convenience of people traveling and returning home, the Fukang Brigade of the Highway Traffic Police Detachment of the Xinjiang Traffic Police Corps has also set up Spring Festival safety law enforcement stations at the Dahuangshan checkpoint and the Ganquanbao checkpoint to carry out registration inspections and key violations. 24-hour full coverage and uninterrupted duty for work such as investigation, fatigue prevention and safety driving reminders.

At the same time, we have strengthened convenience services, equipped vehicles on duty with rescue equipment such as cross wrenches, jacks, and antifreeze coolant, and provided emergency medicines for drivers and passengers, so as to provide assistance to the public as soon as possible.

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