China's railways measure the pace of progress of major countries

Ride the Fuxing, take the wind as the speed and the rail as the ruler, and measure the pace of the great power.

In the eyes of Wang Haitao, the driver of the first train of the Beijing-Zhangjiang high-speed railway, the railway track condensation time reflects the vicissitudes of a hundred years. In 1909, the Beijing-Zhang Railway was completed; In 2019, the Beijing-Zhangjiang high-speed railway was opened. From the "zero breakthrough" of independent design and construction to reaching the world's most advanced level, from a speed of 35 kilometers per hour to 350 kilometers per hour, the Beijing-Zhang Line has witnessed the leap of China's comprehensive national strength.

In the eyes of Bumu A, a villager in Zire Village, Nyingchi City, Tibet, the railway tracks send dreams and support the plateau's take-off and development. On June 25, 2021, the Lalin Railway, the first electrified railway in the Tibet Autonomous Region, was put into operation, ending the history of no railway in southeast Tibet, and the "Hulk" drove into the plateau, bringing prosperity to tourism and smooth logistics, and a stronger guarantee for the prosperity of the people and Tibet.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Promote new industrialization, accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power, a quality power, a space power, a transportation power, a network power, and a digital China" and "optimize infrastructure layout, structure, function and system integration, and build a modern infrastructure system".

In the decade of the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the average annual operation of high-speed railways in the mainland is 3,500 kilometers, the railway mileage in the western region has exceeded 60,000 kilometers, the number of China-Europe trains has continuously reached a new level, and the railway development has made historic achievements.

Leading in innovation, the Fuxing train has achieved full coverage of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities

Longnan City, Jiangxi Province, Xinda Village Meihuadu Scenic Area Xinghe Skyhanging, music and food festival, lawn tent festival good performance; Dongkeng Village Qianxin Town Bamboo Sea Stacking Spring, forest picking, fishing wood ploughing and reading wild interest.

"Thanks to the blessing of the Gan-Shenzhen high-speed railway, the old district held hands in the Bay Area, and the dragon fruit and blueberries were not yet picked in time, so they were sold out by Guangdong guests." Li Yuzhi, founder of Meihuadu Leisure Tourism Development Co., Ltd., couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Lai Fuzhou, who drives a sightseeing bus in a nearby Qianxin town, feels the same way: "Almost all of the people I pick up and drop off at the high-speed railway station are Guangdong tourists, and since the opening of the high-speed rail, it has been the tourist season all year round, and our income has also risen." ”

On December 10, 2021, the Ganzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway was officially put into operation. The fastest travel time of the railway between Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province and Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province has been reduced from 5 hours 32 minutes to 1 hour 49 minutes, and the revitalization of the old area has joined hands with the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to share dividends.

Looking at the whole country, the Fuxing runs on the vast land. Under the guidance of the new development concept, China's high-speed rail development has entered the fast lane.

This is a decade of boom, and the high-speed rail territory continues to expand. The Lanxin high-speed railway crosses the Saibeifeng area, the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway winds the mountains and rivers of the south of the mountains, the Hamu high-speed railway runs through the Linhai snowfield, and the Hangzhou-Huang high-speed railway shuttles through the Jiangnan water town... Fuxing trains have historically achieved full coverage of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. As of the end of September this year, the operating mileage of high-speed rail in the country was about 41,000 kilometers, an increase of 342% over the end of 2012.

This is a decade driven by innovation, and high-speed rail technology continues to lead. Fuxing rendezvous and reconnected at a speed of 420 kilometers per hour, the world's first; The intelligent EMU achieves automatic driving at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the first in the world; The 400 km/h variable gauge high-speed EMU rolled off the line, which can realize cross-border interconnection... China's high-speed railway, which is independently innovated, has become a world-renowned "national business card".

This is a vibrant decade, and high-speed rail services benefit 10,000 families. Popularize electronic tickets, realize face-brushing into the station, launch Internet food ordering, improve hub connection, integrate the high-speed rail network with the Internet, and connect high-speed rail stations to the metropolitan area. By the end of 2021, the coverage rate of high-speed rail to cities with a population of more than one million exceeded 95%, and the number of EMU passengers sent accounted for 73.6% of the total railway passenger volume.

With shared development, the railway mileage in the western region exceeded 60,000 kilometers

This decade, we not only enjoy the speed of high-speed rail, but also the temperature of slow trains.

At 10:36 a.m., the 5633 slow train stopped at Mianning Station of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway. The car door opened, and dozens of chickens on their backs, more than a dozen sheep, 300 pounds of potatoes, fat pig cubs and dolls poured into the stage.

In the crowd, 58-year-old Ji Kemu led the sheep to get off the bus, "The party's policy is good, the price of tickets has not increased for decades, and we have specially transformed the luggage compartment to transport livestock." ”

Daliangshan, which the 5633 train passes through, is the largest Yi ethnic settlement in the mainland and one of the most concentrated areas in the key counties of the national poverty alleviation work. Since its operation in July 1970, the 5633 train has picked up passengers rain or shine, and has been regarded by the Yi compatriots as the lifeline and well-off car on Daliang Mountain.

At the beginning of this year, the Xincheng-Kunming railway from Xichang to Kunming has started moving, and the Xichang-Chengdu bullet train is also close at hand. The old and new Chengkun lines meet at Mianning Station, which makes Ji Kemu plan to buy a house for his sons in Lugu Town, Mianning County, "In the future, I will take the train when I go out, the country cares about us, the railway takes care of us, and the days will be better and better day by day!" ”

Counting the economic benefits alone, the passenger flow of the western road network is low, and slow trains are not profitable, so why speed up construction?

On the morning of July 22, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was on an inspection tour in Tibet, took a special train to inspect the construction along the Lalin Railway, and also looked at the construction of the railway network in the vast western frontier.

"The national traffic map is like a painting, China's central, eastern and northeastern regions are all Gongbi paintings, the western white space is too large, and it will be necessary to make up a few strokes in the future to paint the beautiful China's traffic more beautiful." It is necessary to fully demonstrate and make scientific plans, and railway construction should be accounted for. ”

Adhering to the principle of putting the people first, coordinating the development of services and rural revitalization, the construction of the western railway has great prospects.

In the past ten years, the western railway network has become more and more dense. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway began construction, the Hetian-Ruoqiang Railway was put into operation, and the railway mileage in the western region exceeded 60,000 kilometers, accounting for 40% of the country.

Strong service, help revitalization, in the past ten years, the public welfare slow train has not stopped. The country's 81 pairs of public welfare slow trains, covering 21 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, stop at 530 stations, and are people's rush buses, school buses and commuter buses for people in mountainous areas. Since the statistics of the public welfare slow train in 2017, as of the end of August this year, a total of 266 million passengers have been transported, and in 2021 alone, the transportation cost of agriculture-related materials has been reduced by 1.48 billion yuan, becoming a car for getting rich, connecting hearts and solidarity on the road to rural revitalization.

Win-win cooperation, railways have become a bright business card for the construction of the "Belt and Road"

On November 16, local time in Indonesia, a high-speed railway comprehensive inspection train developed and manufactured by China Railway conducted a comprehensive inspection of the inter-field line from Decarur Station to No. 4 Liang of the Yawan high-speed railway, and the various index parameters obtained performed well, and the experimental operation of the Yawan high-speed railway jointly built by China and Indonesia was a complete success.

Randy Ramdani, Indonesian technician of the Engineering Department of the No. 4 Beam Field Project Department of China Railway No. 4 High-speed Railway, China Railway Fourth Bureau, said happily, "The construction of the Yawan high-speed railway has made my life more exciting, and it will definitely bring great changes to my hometown." ”

Connecting Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and Bandung, a famous city in West Java, the Yawan high-speed railway is a landmark project of the "Belt and Road" initiative and practical cooperation between China and Indonesia, and it is also the first high-speed rail project completed by the mainland to complete the whole process of survey, design and construction abroad. The smooth progress of the Yawan high-speed railway has become the epitome of the accelerated pace of mainland railways "going out" since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "High-speed rail is a bright business card of mainland equipment manufacturing, and has become a 'hot commodity' for the mainland's foreign economic and technological cooperation. ”

In the past decade, China Railway has become a bright business card for the "Belt and Road" construction and international production capacity cooperation.

Overseas construction is high-quality and efficient. As the "Belt and Road" and the landmark project of China-Laos friendship, the China-Laos Railway was opened and operated, and the role of the golden channel of international logistics has become increasingly apparent. Pakistan's Lahore Orange Line rail transit project and Hungary-Serbia railway Benoy section have been put into operation, making travel more convenient for people along the line and injecting "new impetus" into regional economic development.

China-Europe Express has developed rapidly. From 80 trains in 2013 to 15,183 trains in 2021, the number of China-Europe trains has continued to reach a new level. At present, 82 operating lines connect 91 cities in China and 200 cities in 24 European countries, with more than 50,000 kinds of commodities, achieving diversified development.

The new land-sea corridor in the west has gained gratifying momentum. From January to September this year, 555,000 TEUs of goods have been sent, a year-on-year increase of 21.7%, and as of the end of September this year, the new land-sea channel train in the west has developed into an international transportation network covering 92 stations in 13 provinces, autonomous regions and cities in the central and western parts of the mainland, and radiating 319 ports in 107 countries (regions), and the drawing line has expanded from 1 at the beginning of 2017 to 12 at present.

"Fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China Railway will continue to contribute to high-level opening up and contribute more and better Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions and Chinese strength to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind." The relevant person in charge of China National Railway Group Corporation said.