The Significance of Railway Construction in Liu Zhi

There are Han, Tujia, Miao, Dong and Zhuang nationalities living along the railway in Liu Zhi. The railway runs through the mountainous area in western Hunan. Here, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, the water is urgent and the roads are dangerous, and the traffic has always been very inconvenient. From 65438 to 0972, the state built the Hunan-Guizhou Railway, and the traffic improved. After the Liu Zhi Railway was completed and opened to traffic, three-quarters of counties in the whole western Hunan area were connected by trains, which fundamentally changed the traffic congestion in the mountainous areas of western Hunan. A large number of timber, medicinal materials, native products and agricultural machinery, fertilizers and pesticides, industrial equipment, light industrial products, etc. In the mountains, it can be transported out and in continuously.