China News Service, Kunming, February 3, Title: China’s New Year Goods Street on the “Slow Train” for Public Welfare
Author Miao Chao, Liang Ying, Li Yajiao
Red Spring Festival couplets, window grilles and blessing characters can be seen everywhere. All kinds of New Year goods are dazzling. The sounds of sales and inquiries in the carriages come and go, interweaving a unique "New Year symphony".
On February 2, on the 7466/5 train from Kunming, Yunnan to Yuanmou West, a unique public welfare "Slow Train" New Year's Market was officially opened.
The reporter walked onto the carriage, and there were baskets, backpacks, sacks, and small baskets filled with sausages, bacon, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, radishes, apples, dragon fruit, etc. on both sides. Some passengers who go from Kunming to the market in Yuanmou County can gain a lot by walking around in the carriage.
The picture shows the New Year shopping street on the public welfare "Slow Train". Photo by China News Service reporter Li Jiaxian
From the leisurely pace of the green train to the fast speed of the Fuxing, Yunnan has moved from the "border terminal" of China's road network to the "regional hub" connecting China's internal and external areas. In the era of high-speed rail, several "slow trains" are still traveling over the mountains and ridges on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, stopping at every station on the winding railway line. It is the most economical and convenient way for residents along the line to live, travel, buy and sell, study, and get married. One of the travel tools.
This "slow train" was formerly Kunming to Panzhihua 6162/1. In May 2020, after the Chengdu-Kunming Railway double-track Miyi to Panzhihua section was put into operation, the green train operating section was adjusted from Kunming to Yuanmou West, and the number of trains was changed to 7466/5.
It currently runs 245 kilometers one way, passing through 10 villages such as Longtangba, Heijing and Xiaocun in the deep mountains and canyons, and stops at 6 passenger stations. The outbound trip runs for 4 hours and 50 minutes, and the return trip runs for 5 hours and 58 minutes. The maximum fare is 30.5 yuan and the minimum is 4 yuan.
In fact, the updated "slow train" has a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour, and it only becomes "slower" because it stops at multiple stations along the line. China has entered the era of high-speed rail and continues to run low-fare "slow trains" to help farmers.
The picture shows the New Year shopping street on the public welfare "Slow Train". Photo by China News Service reporter Li Jiaxian
The Spring Festival is approaching. In order to facilitate villagers along the line to buy New Year's goods and provide a platform for villagers along the line to sell vegetables and local goods, the railway department has opened a New Year's goods street for the first time on the 7466/5 public welfare "slow train". Passengers can buy what they want on the train. Take home your wishful New Year goods.
The train arrived at Dianxin Station, and several villagers carrying baskets boarded the train. They were vegetable farmers from Dianxin Village, Tuo'an Township, Lufeng City, Chuxiong Prefecture. On weekdays, they would also carry their vegetables on their backs to the hometown of winter breakfast vegetables in China. For sale in Yuanmou County.
"Our Tuo'an Township has a small population and it's hard to sell in the township. If we bring Yuanmou here, we can get a good price," Zhang Tielin, a villager in Dianxin Village, told reporters. They just happened to catch up with the New Year's Market. They put down their baskets and laid out the vegetables, and started on the train. sell. “With any luck, we’ll be able to sell out on the car.”
The train arrived at Heijing Station, and there were many new passengers in the carriage. Passenger Li Min, who was about to go home after visiting Heijing, was surprised by the dazzling array of agricultural products on the train and said, "They say the train is a mobile post station, and our train has also become a mobile market."
In order to better serve the travel of villagers along the line, in recent years, the China Railway Kunming Bureau Group has continued to conduct inspections of the stations where "slow trains" stop and the facilities built for boarding and landing, conduct comprehensive "physical examinations" of passenger transportation equipment, and organize regular inspections of The "Slow Train" carries out deep cleaning inside the warehouse to ensure that there are no sanitary dead spots in the carriage walls, toilets and other parts, and comprehensively improves the "Slow Train" riding environment.
In today's era where everything is pursuing efficiency and speed, the "slow train" takes the initiative to slow down and carry people in mountainous villages onto the road to wealth faster. (over)