2021-04-28 09:43 By: Xinhua Though home to the world s most developed high-speed railway network, China still regularly operates 81 slow train services, covering 35 ethnic minority-populated regions, transporting some 12 million people annually at an average cost of no more than 0.06 yuan per km. Slow train service has been operating in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China s Sichuan Province, for over half a century, becoming a lifeline for generations of local people.
by Xinhua writers Cao Bin and Wu Guangyu
CHENGDU, April 27 (Xinhua) In an age of ever-extending high-speed rail networks and a race for efficiency, slow trains with an average speed of less than 40 km per hour are still running in the mountains and deserts in remote corners of China.
Though home to the world s most developed high-speed railway network, China still regularly operates 81 slow train services, covering 35 ethnic minority-populated regions, transporting some 12 million people annually at an average cost of no more than 0.06 yuan per km.
Slow train service has been operating in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China s Sichuan Province, for over half a century, becoming a lifeline for generations of local people.
In an age of ever-extending high-speed rail networks and a race for efficiency, slow trains with an average speed of less than 40 km per hour are still running in the mountains and deserts in remote corners of China.
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The undated photo shows two students from Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan, take the train No. 5633/4 to go to school. (Photo: China News Service/Tao Jing)
Compared with high-speed trains in many parts of China, there are slow green trains running through Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
Train No. 5633/4 is just one of such trains.
Slow trains carry 90 percent people of the Yi ethnic group. It is mainly for local residents living in the remote villages including students heading for schools, villagers stocking and selling produce, people visiting relatives and friends, and patients seeking for medical service..
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Passengers aboard the slow-speed train service in the mountainous regions of southwest China have long been familiar with the cheeps, oinks, quacks and baas of their animal companions.
Chicks can sometimes be spied in baskets, piglets can be seen running ahead of harried train attendants and owners, and ducks poke their little heads out of bags to quack.
Passengers on the 5633/5634 trains, which run through the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China s mountainous Sichuan Province, see trains as the most cost-effective and reliable way to travel to sell their livestock and other farming produce to the world outside of the mountains.