New tourist train route from Yichang to north China
2023-07-07 19:07:00
By Zeng Lei, Yichang International Communication Studio
A train with over 600 passengers on board departed Yichang East railway station on Wednesday evening heading for Jining South station in Inner Mongolia.
This is the first time that Yichang has plumped for a tourist train route to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
With the train snaking its way through Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and Hebei provinces, the distance there and back is around 5,000 kilometers.
The route has been organized so that the train stops at stations along the route during the day so that tourists can spend the daylight hours sightseeing in that particular city. Then they climb back on the train and spend the night rolling through the countryside to the next stop.
Yichang's first 2023 inter-provincial tourist train departed the city on May 18, going to Shenyang, Harbin, and China’s northernmost city of Mohe.
A total of 456 tourists took the train to visit 19 cities in Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Jilin provinces.
Since the beginning of summer, China’s domestic tourism market has been growing rapidly, with parents keen to take their children traveling during the summer vacation. Another attraction for these routes is that northern China is cooler than Hubei during the summer.
Yichang East Railway Station will arrange more special tourist trains to the northeast, northwest, and other popular cities from July to October.
A train with over 600 passengers on board departed Yichang East railway station on Wednesday evening heading for Jining South station in Inner Mongolia.
This is the first time that Yichang has plumped for a tourist train route to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Tourists waiting to board the train at Yichang East Station. Photo by Chen Long
With the train snaking its way through Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and Hebei provinces, the distance there and back is around 5,000 kilometers.
The route has been organized so that the train stops at stations along the route during the day so that tourists can spend the daylight hours sightseeing in that particular city. Then they climb back on the train and spend the night rolling through the countryside to the next stop.
Yichang's first 2023 inter-provincial tourist train departed the city on May 18, going to Shenyang, Harbin, and China’s northernmost city of Mohe.
A total of 456 tourists took the train to visit 19 cities in Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Jilin provinces.
Since the beginning of summer, China’s domestic tourism market has been growing rapidly, with parents keen to take their children traveling during the summer vacation. Another attraction for these routes is that northern China is cooler than Hubei during the summer.
Yichang East Railway Station will arrange more special tourist trains to the northeast, northwest, and other popular cities from July to October.
