Changes in Yichang? Yichang has changed greatly in the past few decades: in the 1970s, Yichang ended its history without railways. History once recorded that in 1904 (the 30th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), the Qing government The Sichuan-Hankou Railway Corporation is to be established in Chengdu. The Sichuan-Hankou Railway is planned to run from Hankou to Yichang and reach the capital. In 1909 (the first year of Xuantong), Sichuan-Hankou Corporation established the General Engineering Bureau in Yichang. Chief Engineer Zhan Tianyou and Deputy Chief Engineer Yan Deqing went to Yichang to take up posts. In that year, more than 30,000 workers were gathered to break ground and start construction of the section from Yichang to Wanxian. In 1911 (the third year of Xuantong), the Qing government announced that it would transform it into a commercial enterprise and borrow foreign debt to return it to the state. This triggered a wave of road protection and the Sichuan-Hankou Railway project was suspended. In 1913, the Sichuan-Hankou Railway Company in Yiyi was cancelled. Due to political corruption, economic recession, and war troubles, the Sichuan-Hankou Railway artery can only make Huangliang's dreams come true.
From 1969 to 1970, the Jiaozuo-Liuzhou Railway and its branch line Ya(queling)guan(zhuang) section, built by the people's war, ran through Dangyang and Yi in the east of our city. Ling, Zhijiang and Yidu are four important economic pillar counties (cities) and Yichang urban area. The railway artery connects Yichang to the whole country, becoming a transportation artery connecting central and southwestern China, western Hubei, and eastern Sichuan. It is also an important route for Yichang's foreign trade imports and Chinese and foreign tourists.
As we all know, after the reconstruction of Yichang Railway Station in Dongshan, the station square and modern station building are particularly eye-catching, becoming a new highlight of Yichang city, and it is also the first place where guests who come to Yichang see Yichang city. Observation deck. The bustling crowds show the transportation advantages of the railway artery. After more than 30 years of development, it has grown from a small station that receives one train per day to a second-class station that receives and dispatches 11 pairs of trains per day, achieving a historic annual cargo volume of 2.7 million tons and a transportation revenue of 206 million yuan. across.
Railway transportation cannot be replaced by other modes in the annual Spring Festival transportation and important material transportation, and it still plays a very important main force role. With the implementation of the country's western development strategy, the proposal of the Yichang-Wanzhou Railway has been brought into the vision of decision-makers. Yichang people are running forward, making suggestions, taking plans, providing preferential policies, and discussing options. Wherever we go, all the hard work pays off. The Yichang-Wanzhou Railway connects at Huayan Station in Yichang, passing through Wujia, crossing the Yangtze River, passing through Changyang, arriving in Enshi, and reaching Wanzhou, with a total distance of more than 200 kilometers. Currently, construction of Yichang's fifth Yangtze River Bridge (2,572 meters in length), one of the key projects of the project, has quietly started. Its completion will have far-reaching significance in connecting Yichang with southwest, south and east China, changing the status of Yichang railway, and establishing Yichang's transportation hub status.
4. Silver Swallows Flying in the Blue Sky
The airport in Yichang before the founding of the People's Republic of China can be described as a history of humiliation. From 1937 to 1938, the Kuomintang government troops built a military airport for flight training at Railway Dam (today's Yiling Square). In 1940, Yichang fell and the airport was reduced to ruins. In 1941, the Japanese army forcibly recruited tens of thousands of civilians and built airfields in Tumenya and Dangyang counties in Yichang County to take off and land the Chinese who were bombarded indiscriminately by planes. In August 1945, the Japanese surrendered and the airport was closed.
Based on strategic needs after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Central Military Commission decided to build an airport in Tumen, Yichang. Construction started in 1953 and it was opened to traffic the following year. Later, a military airport was built in Dangyang, which has made the people of Yichang proud for many years. The epoch-making changes in Yichang's civil aviation industry were due to the construction opportunities of the Three Gorges Project.
With the construction of the Three Gorges Project and Yichang's location advantages, it calls for modern transportation that can adapt to it, and the Three Gorges Airport came into being. In September 1994, the Three Gorges Airport officially started construction. In December 1996, nearly 750 million yuan was invested to plan and build the Three Gorges Airport according to 4E-level standards and 4D-level standards. The Three Gorges Airport with an annual throughput of 1.4 million passengers was completed and opened to traffic, which can meet the needs of B737, B757, A32O, etc. Main aircraft types take off and land. The rapid and smooth construction of the Three Gorges Airport created a miracle in my country's airport construction.
After the airport was opened to traffic, flights from Yichang to more than 20 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Chongqing, and Xi'an, as well as charter flights from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and other countries and regions, have been launched. There are more than 20 domestic and overseas routes from Yichang, with an annual passenger volume of more than 250,000. At the same time, it provides high-quality services to the special planes of central leaders every year. According to the comprehensive assessment, the airport ranks 52nd among the 143 civil airports in the country.
It ranks second in Hubei, second only to Wuhan Tianhe Airport. The construction of the Three Gorges Airport has set up a safe and fast air corridor for the Three Gorges Project and Three Gorges tourism, and for Yichang to go global and for the world to understand Yichang.
5. Urban mobility landscape
The prosperity of urban passenger transportation can be said to be the taste mark and symbol of a city! When we walked along the corridor of memory and traveled through the tunnel of time to understand the beginning of Yichang's urban passenger transport, we found that it was heavily marked with the times and was in perfect harmony with Yichang's rising status in the country.
The time can be traced back to April 1959, when the city's bus service started, equipped with 3 passenger cars and 1 route, running from the north gate to Wujiagang and back. In May 1971, a second line was opened from Jiu Pier to Yangtze River Creek to meet the traffic needs of the Gezhouba Hydropower Project area. In 1972, the city bus had only 2 lines, 26 buses, 43 drivers, and assets of 1.2 million yuan. But after all, there was a difficult start. After more than 30 years of continuous development, there are currently 480 operating vehicles, 37 lines, and more than 50 harbor-style waiting corridors. The total asset value reaches 69.36 million yuan, the total annual journey reaches 3,500 kilometers, and the annual passenger volume is 96 million. Revenue is 75 million yuan. Among them, the No. 1 bus route is the largest in the country and the first "Reservist Demonstration Route" in our province. All drivers wear reserve uniforms to work. The female drivers are heroic and the male drivers are majestic. Their behavioral norms are regulated by the Guangzhou Military Region. High praise from the chief. In addition, all buses in Yichang have installed IC card toll collection services, realizing the modernization of management. Different styles of luxury low-step sightseeing buses and unique double-decker buses travel through the bustling sections of the city, becoming our A beautiful flowing landscape that the city is famous for.
Yichang’s location advantage has promoted the rapid development of taxi passenger transport. Since 1986, Yichang's rental industry has developed and grown entirely through market-oriented operations without any government investment, forming a new industry with more than 1,700 taxis and fixed assets of 165 million yuan, solving the problem of There are more than 4,000 elder brothers and sisters with employment problems, and the consumer market with an average annual passenger revenue of 127 million yuan is also known as the "second child in Hubei." My brother and sister are the first to welcome the morning sun and the last to see off the glow. The rapid flow of taxis and buses and buses in the beautiful urban area of ??Yichang make this ancient city filled with youthful vitality and vitality. !
Epilogue: Some famous figures also look at the present
Transportation is a symbol of social civilization and human progress. Only by taking science and technology as the primary productive force can the transportation industry develop rapidly with even greater strength. Since the reform and opening up, Yichang City has also made remarkable achievements in transportation scientific research and application. Since the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" period, all Yichang transportation units have closely integrated with production actual conditions and taken the scientific research project of the construction of Yichang Yangtze River Highway Bridge as an opportunity to independently research and develop 26 scientific research projects, 16 of which won provincial and municipal excellent project awards and First, second and third prizes for scientific and technological progress, 8 of which have research results that are at the internationally advanced level.
The result of attaching great importance to science and technology is the creation of a group of scientific research talents, and the promotion of scientific and technological exchanges has been better implemented in Yichang.
As early as the mid-1970s, Hu Zhaode, a young intellectual on the Dangyang Highway section, worked hard and succeeded in applying solar energy to highway maintenance. He traveled east to Japan and entered the international academic forum. His success greatly It inspired young transportation science and technology talents in Yichang to devote themselves to the transportation industry. Transportation science and technology talents represented by Hu Zhaode grew rapidly, and scientific and technological achievements continued to emerge. It has given wings to take off for our city’s development of science and technology and the rapid development of transportation.
The city’s transportation system has 136 people with senior professional titles and 1,018 people with intermediate professional titles. Zhou Changdong, Hu Zhaode, and Zhu Shikai have successively won the honor of young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the provincial government and enjoyed the "Special Government Allowance of the State Council". At the same time, a group of young and middle-aged experts were commended as outstanding provincial and municipal experts. In order to further create a good environment that respects knowledge and talents and enables more talents to stand out, the Municipal Transportation Bureau recently systematically selected more than 20 transportation technology leaders and provided subsidies and encouragement. This move laid a solid foundation for the leap-forward development of transportation in the new era.
Yichang traffic people are enviable! Everyone who has been to Yichang thinks so. The mountains and rivers of Yichang have left their footprints, and their monuments are everywhere on the 21,000 square kilometers of land.
Whether it is the head of the central government who comes to Yichang for an inspection, or friends from home and abroad who come to Yichang for sightseeing, the first people they come into contact with are our transportation employees, who take the transportation that belongs to us in Yichang. The hands of Yichang transportation people have repeatedly interacted with the party and state leaders. Human hands held tightly together.
Yichang is also a place where talents emerge in large numbers. While creating material civilization, traffic people also provide society with rich spiritual products. Due to the nature of transportation work, which is rooted in the grassroots level of society and has extensive contact with all aspects of society, over the past few decades, it has given birth to a group of well-known domestic writers and artists such as the worker poet Huang Shengxiao and the author of "The Yangtze River Trilogy" Yan Guopei. The extensive development of amateur literary and artistic creation has greatly enriched the cultural life of employees, improved the comprehensive quality of traffic people, and also improved the social status of traffic people.
The gorgeous flower of spiritual civilization has produced fruitful fruits of civilization. The two civilizations have developed in a coordinated manner. Over the past few decades, Yichang City's transportation system has cultivated 26 model workers at or above the municipal level, established 22 provincial and ministerial level civilized units, and 72 municipal level civilized units. The Municipal Transportation Bureau has won the title of civilized agency for 5 consecutive years and 8 consecutive years. , won the title of "Advanced Group in the National Transportation System Creating Civilized Industry" by the Ministry of Transportation for three consecutive years.
Looking back at the past and looking at the present, there have been tremendous changes. Looking forward to the future, there is still a long way to go. Yichang has entered the best period of development opportunities, and Yichang's transportation prospects will be even more brilliant. With the implementation of the "Yichang Transportation Infrastructure Modernization Development Outline", Yichang will focus on the construction of "the main skeleton of highways, main water transportation channels, railway arteries, air corridors, and main port hubs" to strengthen the construction of modern three-dimensional transportation and provide social benefits. Provide more "smooth, safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly" transportation services. To achieve the goal of transportation modernization, transportation development in the first 10 years of the new century is key. With the completion of the "four major system projects", the overall service level of transportation infrastructure will be comprehensively improved.
The first is the key project of the high-speed system, namely the construction of the Yi-Wanzhou Railway, the Shanghai-Chengdu West, Jingyi, Hangzhou-Lanzhou Expressway and the Yuandang and Yihua first-class roads, with Xuanchang urban area as the radioactive source , forming a radial high-speed system.
The second is the main backbone network project. It is necessary to build a national and provincial road network project of 300 kilometers, realize the connection of trunk highways into a network, and enable multiple modes of transportation to effectively connect through highway transportation and divide labor between each other.
The third is the port station supporting project, which should be built into the Three Gorges Logistics Center. Develop the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, build the Yunchi deep-water port, improve the 44-kilometer channel of the Xiangxi River, improve the transfer port in the Three Gorges Reservoir area and the Yichang container foreign trade port, and build the Qingjiang Gaobazhou and Geheyan 300-ton two-stage ship lifts. Expand the 4E-level international airport and open a first-class air port to form an aviation economic circle with Yichang as the axis, 2 hours domestically and 6 hours in the Asia-Pacific region.
The fourth is the rural people's support project. Within 3 years, 918 kilometers of secondary roads connecting counties and villages will be built, and more than 600 kilometers of roads connecting villages will be built. Townships will be connected to asphalt roads, every village will be connected to highways, and some groups will be connected to households. Highways, try our best to improve traffic capacity, basically improve the travel environment for the vast number of rural people who account for more than 70% of the city's population, and use asphalt roads and cement roads. Are you satisfied with my answer?