【When the Spring Festival is in progress】
Guangming Daily reporter Zhang Ruixia Jing Guangming Daily correspondent Zhang Ke
The moon stars are rare, and the cold wind is piercing. In the early morning of January 21, accompanied by a burst of "clanging" sounds, a Dongfeng locomotive pushed 50 freight flatbeds and slowly drove into the Wujiashan Station freight yard of the Hanxi Depot of China Railway Wuhan Bureau Group Corporation. One by one, under the precise lifting and moving of the gantry crane, it transformed into a long dragon of steel.
At 4:58, the X8202 train, which was grouped into 50 cars and loaded with more than 870 tons of Hubei new year goods and epidemic prevention materials, departed from Wujiashan Station and headed for Hamburg, Germany. This also means that Wujiashan Station has successfully completed the "three consecutive departures" of the Spring Festival of china-Europe express trains.
Wujiashan Station is the only starting and ending station of China-Europe express trains in Hubei. In the view of Wang Hongyang, deputy station director of Wujiashan Station, the China-Europe train is going to go abroad, showing the face of Chinese, and must not be worse at all.
Wujiashan's freight transport is different from the nature of ordinary freight stations. For exporting goods, the station needs to check the export procedures and whether the loaded vehicles meet the requirements. After all the loading is complete, the loading reinforcement and lead seal reinforcement are recorded. For trucks arriving on the China-Europe express train, the station first carries out epidemic prevention and disinfection, and then hands them over to the pick-up person after confirming that the box and lead seal are complete.
As the Spring Festival approaches, the China-Europe Express (Wuhan) plays the role of "New Year Train".
Hu Yiqiang, station manager of Wujiashan Station, introduced that the train opened during the Spring Festival was loaded with large red lanterns with strong Chinese Spring Festival elements and window stickers printed with blessing characters. This will send the New Year's flavor of hometown to Chinese overseas Chinese and international students in Europe, and also allow more countries and regions to feel the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.
In order to ensure that these new year goods arrived in Europe during the Spring Festival, Wujiashan Station and China Railway Lianji Wuhan Central Station, Hanou International Logistics Company, Wuhan Customs and other departments and units divided labor and cooperation, orderly carried out customs declaration, packing, marshalling, on-line and other work, so that the train was safely and on time.
In the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the China-Europe express train has become a "train of life" and continues to build a "life channel" for China and Europe to fight the epidemic. In 2021, the China-Europe Express (Wuhan) delivered a total of 9,770.86 tons of urgently needed local epidemic prevention materials to Germany, Poland, Hungary and other countries. Five days before the Spring Festival this year, the China-Europe Express (Wuhan) has delivered a total of 191.7 tons of various epidemic prevention materials and 27,600 pieces to Europe.
For the transportation of epidemic prevention materials, Rao Qu, a freight clerk at Wujiashan Station, has a deep understanding. During the "lockdown" of Wuhan in 2020, Rao Qu drove more than 10,000 kilometers for more than 70 days and volunteered to deliver more than 100 tons of epidemic prevention and daily necessities for hospitals and communities. Because he was a railroad man, many people affectionately called him "Iron Brother".
"As a veteran, an old party member, and a Wuhan native, when the country is in trouble, I must stand up and do what I can." Back at work, I provide support for the international train transportation of epidemic prevention and daily necessities, and it is worth the New Year on the job. Rao Qu said that this year Chinese New Year's Eve he was on duty.
It is understood that in 2021, the China-Europe Express (Wuhan) has shipped a total of 411 trains and 38568 TEUs, an increase of 91% year-on-year, and the heavy container rate remains at 100%. The total value of goods was 12.734 billion yuan, an increase of 78% year-on-year. The total mileage is 3.85 million kilometers, which is equivalent to 96 laps around the Earth's equator.
Guangming Daily ( 2022-02-13 03 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily