The Taihang Mountain Range is located between Shanxi Province and the North China Plain, spanning four provinces and cities of Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi and Henan, stretching for more than 400 kilometers. Perhaps many people don't know that the "essence" of more than 400 kilometers is the "Taihang Grand Canyon" located in Linzhou City, Henan Province, which is a water conservancy project built by the people of Linxian County (now Linzhou City) in the 60s of the 20th century under extremely difficult conditions from the Taihang Mountainside, which is called the "artificial Tianhe". Nowadays, it has become a famous national 5A-level tourist attraction - Hongqi Canal Taihang Grand Canyon, attracting countless tourists from home and abroad to visit Range Rover.
Every spring and summer, it welcomes many Korean tourists. There are Korean architectural elements, specialized Korean restaurants, and Korean-style homestays in the scenic area. "At present, we have put up YTO international shipping posters and international product brochures at the scenic express service points to welcome Korean tourists. Wang Junqiang, head of Yuantong Linzhou Branch, said.
"Previously, Korean tourists bought our persimmons and walnuts, and they had to find out if there was a courier point to help them send them back. Now our express delivery point cooperates with most of the specialty merchants in the town, and after buying it, we can go directly to the door to pick it up. ”
In addition, another special feature of the tourists here is the teachers and students of high and middle art schools across the country. With the typical landscape perspective of Taihang Mountain, the peculiar fault landscape in the Grand Canyon and the "one of China's top ten dwellings" in Slate Town, where the scenic spot is located, the slate house (the walls, roof, and various decorative components are all stones), since the 90s of the 20th century, it has attracted many domestic artists and professionals to come to collect and create. "Chinese Painting Valley" and "Chinese Sketching Base" have become the golden business cards of Linzhou Slate Town.
Wang Junqiang introduced that at the beginning of taking over the Linzhou branch in 2017, he cooperated with the local supply and marketing cooperatives and set up an express station in Slate Town, but there is still a certain distance from the sketching check-in place. In order to better and "closer" the service of sketching tourists, at the beginning of 2024, with the call of the headquarters to "express into the scenic spot" and the support of Henan Province, the Linzhou branch has added two express service points in Gaojiatai Village and Sanmudi Village, which are popular places for sketching in the scenic area.
"At present, we have a total of 1 post station and 2 service points in Slate Town, with a total area of nearly 100 square meters, and each station has arranged special staff, with a cumulative average daily collection and delivery volume of more than 200 pieces. Wang Junqiang said.
The Hongqi Canal was not built in a day, and the same is true of "express delivery into the scenic spot". "The branch itself is more than 40 kilometers away from Slate Town, but in order to find the best location closest to the popular sketch check-in place to set up an express service point, we have been to the town no less than 10 times, basically all walked around, and finally found the ideal point, and then communicated with local hotels, supermarkets, etc., to see how to better cooperate and open up the express service more smoothly. Wang Junqiang said that it was not easy.
According to him, these works are completed in time for the end of March, because from April every year, Slate Town will welcome sketching enthusiasts from all over the country. "Sketches are not only their creations, but also their efforts and works of art, and they ask us to send them, but they can't be careless. To this end, the Linzhou branch has intimately customized a batch of packaging boxes and cardboard pieces that are specially tailored to the size of the conventional drawing board. "Especially for oil paintings that are not completely dry, cardboard can be a good way to separate the paintings and prevent them from sticking. We also reinforce the outer layer of pearl film or bubble wrap to prevent shocks to ensure that the sketches are delivered to their destination in perfect condition. ”
"With the YTO service point, it is really convenient for us. Many students who came to sketch said that the sketching base is more than ten kilometers away from the town, and it takes more than half an hour to ride a bicycle, and they also have to hold the painting, which is very troublesome, and it is easy to break if you are not careful. "Now you can take the painting to the YTO service point in just a few steps and send it away, which saves time and makes it less likely to be damaged. As long as we put forward a demand, Brother YTO will also come to the inn where we live to collect luggage and send items. ”
"In addition to shipping, we are sketching here, the time is generally longer, half a month to a month or so, some daily necessities are ordered online, the recipient address we will write directly Yuantong, convenient and assured. ”