The Function and Significance of Southwest Railway

The opening of the mountain railway, which is the most difficult to construct in the history of China railway, has opened the throat of land transportation in the southwest mountainous area, turned the Millennium "Shu Road" which is difficult to get to the sky into a thoroughfare, and opened up a fast railway passage along the river, which will accelerate the pace of economic integration between the southwest and the central and eastern regions.

The Yangtze River Basin is one of the most developed areas in China, and it is in the "backbone" position in the economic development of China, radiating north and south and driving the surrounding areas. However, since ancient times, the eastern part of the southwest of China has left Bashu, so it can only go by water, enter Jianghan Plain along the Yangtze River and Three Gorges, and flow eastward to the sea.

Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province is located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain, which is the throat for Central China to enter the southwest and an important gateway for Sichuan and Chongqing to go out of the east. For a long time, Enshi Prefecture has been restricted by traffic and other factors, and its economic development is relatively backward.

"From 1903, after more than a hundred years of expectation, the train finally entered the Tumiao bungalow." Zhou, director of Enshi Railway Office, said: "From then on, it went to Wuhan and Shanghai in the east, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the south and Beijing and Tianjin in the north. Yiwan Railway closely links Wuling Mountain area with all parts of the country, fulfilling the century-old dream of children in Wuling Mountain area. "

Now Yiwan Railway passes through Enshi, and the length of domestic lines accounts for 60% of the total length. Xiao Xu, secretary of Enshi State Party Committee, said that the situation of people of all ethnic groups in Enshi and Wuling mountainous areas who have been blocked by mountains, blocked by roads and inconvenient transportation for thousands of years will be fundamentally changed.

Deng, deputy director of Enshi Agriculture Bureau, said that with this fast track, Enshi local agricultural products such as tea and vegetables can continuously enter Wuhan, Shanghai and other big cities in the central and eastern regions, and the characteristic agriculture has ushered in great development, greatly accelerating the pace of opening up and development in the western minority areas, and the people in Wuling Mountain area have since boarded the "express train" to get rid of poverty and become rich.

Yiwan Railway is an important part of China Railway's "four verticals and four horizontals" rapid passenger transport network from Shanghai to expressway, Han Rong, and it is also an important traffic link connecting the central and western regions of China. Its opening not only rewrote the history that 240,000 square kilometers of land in southwest China, such as Hubei, Chongqing, Hunan and Guizhou, did not have an inch of railway, but also promoted the local economic development, and opened up a large highway along the Yangtze River for the vast southwest of China, accelerating the economic integration with the eastern and central regions.

According to the results of the trial operation of the Yiwan line, the fastest direct flight from Yichang to Wanzhou is less than 3 hours. After the opening of Yiwan Railway, the time from Wuhan to Chongqing will be shortened by about half compared with the current Hunan-Chongqing Railway.

Wang Jianzu, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that the opening of the Yiwan Railway will completely change the situation of poor people flow and logistics caused by inconvenient transportation in Wuling Mountain area in the past, facilitate people's travel, promote resource development and opening up in southwest minority areas, directly promote tourism and other industries to achieve a qualitative leap, and greatly promote regional economic development and regional economic integration.

According to the forecast of the railway department, the freight volume of the four railway stations in Badong, Jianshi, Enshi and Lichuan in Enshi, Hubei Province will reach about 3.7 million tons in the first year of the opening of Yiwan Railway, and will exceed 6.5438+million tons in three to five years, greatly accelerating the pace of logistics and economic development in this region and even the whole southwest region.

After the opening of Yiwan Railway, it is "great benefit" for enterprises, especially those involved in bulk commodity transportation. Xinxing Casting Pipe Group will build a production plant with an annual output of 5 million tons of metallic iron powder in Enshi, and the products will be transported to Huangshi, Hubei for reprocessing. If the starting point is located at Yesanguan Railway Station, it is about100km to Yichang. According to the traditional automobile transportation, this section costs 350 million yuan, and it only needs about 52 million yuan to change to train transportation.

The opening of Yiwan Railway will also have a positive impact on Enshi tourism and investment attraction. Zhong Xingke, deputy director of Enshi Tourism Commission, said that Enshi Mountain is beautiful in Sichuan and rich in tourism resources, and tourism will drive explosive growth. Last year, the number of tourists visiting Enshi was 7.73 million, this year it will reach 9 million, and it is expected to exceed10 million next year.

Yu Zhuomin, director of Wuhan Railway Bureau, said that in the next step, by connecting the Hanyi intercity railway with the Chongqing-Lichuan railway under construction, EMU trains will arrive in Chongqing from Wuhan within five hours, and the Chengdu-Chongqing area will arrive in Shanghai, further narrowing the time and space distance between the southwest and the Yangtze River Delta, and accelerating the economic complementarity and integration between the southwest and the central and eastern parts of China.