Youth, glowing in the cold night of the Desert River

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It is the northernmost city in the country, Mohe, which belongs to the Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang Province, with an average annual temperature of -3.8 °C and an extreme minimum temperature of -52.3 °C, known as the "Shenzhou Arctic". On the first day of the Spring Festival, in the shunting yard of Mohe Station in the Gagdaqi Depot of China Railway, accompanied by the sound of instructions coming from the walkie-talkie, Sun Nan, a 24-year-old linker, quickly climbed up the train ladder after confirming that the turnout was in the open state, and under the push of the shunting machine, 40 empty cars drove towards the direction of the coal-fired loading and unloading line. At this time, the north wind whistled, the temperature was close to -38 ° C, sun Nan on the spiral ladder at the front of the train, smeared a handful of frost on the eyelashes through the thick cotton gloves, and carefully looked at the state of the road ahead. In order to maintain his balance, he had to use one arm to hang on the iron car ladder, and after a while, the arm froze as if it had been torn. Mohe Station passenger and freight merger, freight is mainly based on the transportation of coal, every day to complete more than 200 shunting operations, these operations are mostly carried out at night, in the extremely cold weather is half a night. In the winter, the demand for coal for heating and power supply by residents around the world has increased greatly, and Sun Nan's shunting group has to work outdoors for more than 10 hours per shift. "Our shunting team is mainly responsible for the dismantling and regrouping of freight train carriages, and each operation first sends the dismantled empty carriages to the loading site, and then pulls the loaded carriages back to the station to regroup." Sun Nan said that before coming to Mohe, he knew that it was cold here, but "I didn't expect it to be cold to this extent, the cold here is cold to the bone, and if you wear it thick in winter, you can freeze it in a while." Author: Li Yang Wang Yanlong

Source: China Youth Daily client