When you exit the Dasei Toll Station on the Dali Expressway, you will see a magnificent traffic scene consisting of the Erhai East Ring Road, the Dali Railway and the Dali Highway. The Dasete Bridge stands majestically in the distance, the Dali Railway runs alongside the Erhai East Ring Road, cars shuttle on the left and right roads, and trains roar past from time to time on the Dali Railway in the middle. This location happens to be the channel that flights to Dali must pass before landing. If you are lucky, you can also see planes passing over the three roads, and a picture of Dali's "iron-official plane" modern three-dimensional transportation network is presented. In front of you.
Dali Expressway and Highway 60 years ago, it took three days to travel from Kunming to Xiaguan
"In 1959, I took a shuttle bus from Weishan to Xiaguan at 6 in the morning, and the slope was extremely steep. . The shuttle bus is powered by charcoal and lacks power. When going uphill, it has to stop and use triangular wood," said Duan's mother, a retired employee of the Dali Highway Bureau.
"I went to Dali from Kunming for the first time. I walked 420 kilometers for 3 days. I rested for one night at Yangjiazhuang in Lufeng and one night at Xiangyunpupeng. I arrived at Xiaguan on the third night The old 320 National Highway we took at that time was built before 1939," said Duan Yi, a 78-year-old senior engineer who was the former chief of the Xiaguan Highway Management Section. Today, 60 years later, the highway has made Kunming more accessible. Milestones of Xiaguan
In 1960, Duan Yi, a young man from Kunming’s Salang Bai ethnic group, was assigned to work in Dali. In his impression, there were no asphalt roads in Dali in the 1960s. It was only in the 1970s that asphalt roads began to appear. Only after the 1980s did high-grade highways appear. After 2000, national and provincial roads became asphalt roads. road.
On July 2, 1956, when the Xiaguan Central Maintenance Section, the predecessor of Dali Highway Bureau, was established, it managed and maintained 6 lines totaling 872 kilometers. Today, 60 years later, important traffic trunk lines such as Chu-Dalian Expressway, Dabao Expressway, and Dali Expressway have been completed and opened to traffic. Guanwei Highway, National Highway 214 from Fengyi to Dali Ancient City, Dali West Ring Road, Yangbi (Yuejin) to Yunlong (Nuodeng) Secondary Highway, Jianchuan Yunjian Highway, Miduguohe Highway, Lijiang Airport to Heqing County First Class Highway, Dali Port Xiaguan Wharf Reconstruction and Expansion and Rural Road Renovation Project and other key transportation construction projects The implementation has promoted the continuous improvement of the transportation trunk network across the state, and rural transportation conditions have also been greatly improved. By the end of 2015, the total mileage of highways in the state reached 19,207 kilometers; the number of civilian cars in the state reached 307,300, of which 279,300 were private cars.
Railway saw the train at home 18 years ago
On June 23, 1998, the first train entered Dali, and more than 30,000 Baizhou people gathered at the newly built Dali Train Station, ushering in the historical moment when the vast railway was completed and opened to traffic.
At around 8 o'clock in the morning, two days before the opening ceremony, several octogenarians from Daguanyi Village in Dali City came to Dali Railway Station early. 82-year-old Yang Hongyuan walked slowly to the station platform and stared at the railway tracks extending eastward. From 1932 to 1934, when he was only more than 10 years old, he went to the China-Myanmar border to participate in the construction of the China-Myanmar Railway and took a thermal train.
At around 10 o'clock in the morning, the first train entering western Yunnan slowly drove outside the railway station. A group of "golden flowers" in costumes surrounded the train and looked around carefully. . This group of "Golden Flowers" comes from the Wanqiao Township Singing Troupe in Dali City. Music teacher Yang Genlin said that 40 of them spontaneously came to attend the opening ceremony.
This scene seems like just yesterday, and now we have the good news that intercity trains are about to be launched. It is understood that the vast double-track railway, which is jointly constructed by the Ministry of Railways and Yunnan Province with a total investment of 14.31 billion yuan, will build a 167-kilometer double line from Guangtong in the north through Chuxiong, South China, Xiangyun to Dali in the east.
The 106-kilometer double-track reconstruction from Kunming to Guangtong was completed and opened to traffic in December 2013 (design speed 160 kilometers per hour, 200 kilometers per hour reserved), and the construction of the Guangtong-Dali railway capacity expansion and reconstruction project is actively advancing (Design speed 200 kilometers/), it is planned to be completed and opened in 2018. After the completion of the Guangtong-Dali double-track railway with a total length of 175 kilometers and a maximum speed of 200 kilometers per hour, the entire Kunming-Dali double-track railway will be built. Kunming Railway will operate Kunming-Dalian intercity trains, and the journey only takes about 2 seconds.
Dali Airport: Now it only takes 110 minutes from Guiyang to Dali
"I have been to Yunnan once before. I first took a train to Kunming and then flew directly to Dali. It only took 110 minutes. It's too fast." Ban Yuqiong, a tourist from Guiyang, said that she works in the tourism industry and came here to take a look and wanted to start a trip from Guiyang to Dali. On October 30, three routes were opened: Dali-Haikou, Dali-Guiyang, and Dali-Mianyang.
Dali Airport was opened to traffic on November 28, 1995, and the expansion project was completed in 2009. Last year, Dali Airport's passenger throughput reached a historic 1.2647 million, becoming the fifth airport in Yunnan Province with an annual passenger throughput exceeding 1 million after Kunming, Banna, Lijiang and Mangshi.
As of September 30 this year, the passenger throughput of Dali Airport has reached 1.0573 million, and it is expected that by the end of this year, the passenger throughput will exceed 1.4 million.
The emergency capacity expansion and reconstruction of Dali Airport has been approved by relevant departments. Construction will start in December this year and be open to navigation by the end of next year. "Dali Airport has been open to traffic for 20 years. In the past three years, the number of passengers has grown at an annual rate of more than 50%, reaching more than 1.26 million passengers last year. The existing design operation capacity is 1.1 million passengers per year, and the actual operation volume It has exceeded the design operation capacity and can no longer meet the demand for increased passenger volume. "Xiong Hongbing, director of the Dali Prefecture Civil Aviation Office, said that there are cliffs and deep ditches at both ends of the Dali Airport runway, making it difficult to extend the runway. The total investment for this emergency capacity increase and expansion is 340 million yuan. It only adds a 6,000-square-meter terminal building, 8 civil aviation aircraft aprons, and 3 general aviation aircraft aprons on the basis of the original airport facilities. After completion, it will meet the needs of Operating capacity of 1.8 million passengers/year. The temporary port of Dali Airport has been approved, and the reconstruction and expansion of the port and airport are being started, striving to open charter flights by the end of the year, or at the latest during the Spring Festival next year.
On August 20 this year, Dali Prefecture and Yunnan Airport Group signed a series of strategic cooperation agreements, one of which is to build a general aviation center. At present, a site has been selected for the construction of a general first-class airport in Yangma Village, Temple Street, Weishan. It is invested by Yunnan Airport Group and strives to build the airport next year.