The long-cherished dream of unimpeded traffic passage in landlocked far-flung regions has become true for residents in the remote village of Abuluoha in southwest China's Sichuan Province as great efforts have been made locally to build transport infrastructure which made local rocky and impassable paths accessible and bridgeable.
Located at the bottom of a valley, about 250 villagers in Abuluoha Village used to live in obscurity with poor connection with the outside world.
"We used to walk about three to four hours on mountain roads to reach other towns. The roads were steep and narrow. Their widths only allow one person to pass through," said Jierziri, a villager.
The villages waited for a whole year before a 3.8-kilometer road to be constructed and opened to traffic.
Across the province, persistent efforts have been made to intensify transportation network with unimpeded flows of goods and personnel.
"The length of Sichuan's integrated multidimensional transportation networks has reached 430,000 kilometers, the longest in the country," said Hu Houchi, chief of the Integrated Planning and Statistics Division of the Department of Transportation of Sichuan Province.
Starting from Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, multiple railroads have already been built or under construction. Once completed, the railroads will make up a giant network that connect Chengdu with surrounding cities.
"Currently, it takes one hour to travel from Chengdu to Chongqing on high-speed train. Reaching major cities in nearby province requires three hours and traveling to those in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area take about seven hours. In the long run, Sichuan will build a giant network consisting of eight transportation corridors with 30 roads stretching in all directions," said Ren Chong, chief engineer of China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group, the largest multi-industry and comprehensive engineering survey and design corporation in China.
Sichuan sees unimpeded traffic passage in landlocked far-flung regions
