What changes have taken place in the road of "motorcycle army" returning home in the past ten years?
As journalists, my colleagues and I go to the passage of "Motorbike Army" returning home every year to record their sufferings and joys on the road with a lens. We have tracked and recorded their cycling journey home all the time, listened to their stories of hardships and even some thrills, and felt the constant warmth of service along the way with them for many years, witnessing the far-reaching impact of economic and social development on this group.
On February 3, 21, migrant workers from Guangxi who returned home for the New Year rode motorcycles into the Changgang Toll Station in Fengkai, Guangdong. Fengkai County is the first stop of National Highway 321 from Guangdong to Guangxi, and it is the only way for Guangxi migrant workers to return home by motorcycle. According to preliminary estimates, during the period of Spring Festival travel rush in 21, more than 13, motorcycles returned to their hometowns and the Pearl River Delta through this county. (photo by Xinhua News Agency/Wei Shiming)
On January 26, 211, migrant workers lined up on motorcycles to pass through the toll station in Wuzhou section of National Highway 321 where Guangdong and Guangxi meet. On that day, the flow of migrant workers' motorcycles returning home through the border between Guangdong and Guangxi ushered in the highest peak since Spring Festival travel rush, with more than 5, motorcycles entering Guangxi from Wuzhou section of National Highway 321 alone. (photo by Xinhua News Agency/He Xun)
On a cold night in Nandan, Guangxi in p>211, I recorded the scene of the "motorcycle army" riding home in the cold freezing rain. Up to now, that scene still keeps emerging in front of my eyes: the cold rain can't extinguish the blood-filled hearts of the returnees and the yearning for their relatives in their hometown. A group of riders are traveling in the rain. Cotton-padded clothes, knee pads, raincoats, cotton blankets, gloves ... On that day, a group of "fully armed" migrant workers who rode motorcycles and returned home in the rain went to Nandan County, Guangxi, on National Highway 21. According to reports, the motorcycle returning team composed of dozens of people set off from Guangdong on January 17 and prepared to drive nearly 2, kilometers back to their hometown in Guizhou for the New Year. Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Xiaobang photo
Wuzhou City and Hezhou City, located at the junction of Guangdong and Guangxi, are two important stops for the "Motorcycle Army" to return home. Every year in Spring Festival travel rush, many gas stations here will be transformed into temporary Spring Festival travel rush Love Service Stations, where relevant government departments, caring enterprises and social volunteers gather to provide services for returnees.
Jiang Yingming (left), an employee of China Petroleum Guangxi Hezhou Branch, helped Li Caimei, who returned from work in Guangdong, to take care of his children during his stay in Spring Festival travel rush (photo taken on January 19, 217). Xinhua News Agency reporter Cao Yiming photo
On January 19, 217, when we met Li Caimei, she was sitting in a temporary tent at a service station in Spring Festival travel rush, eating gingerbread dumplings sent by volunteers. In order to save some travelling expenses, Li Caimei, who works in Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, rode a motorcycle to his hometown in Hezhou alone with his two-month-old baby. "The weather is so cold that the children have caught a cold." The difficulty of returning home by motorcycle is beyond Li Cai-mei's expectation. Thanks to these warm service stations along the way, Li Caimei can constantly replenish her "energy" and courage, and successfully walk home.
in February p>213, I followed Zhou sheng and other five "motorcycle riders" who worked in Guangdong to return home. From Foshan, Guangdong Province to Jingxi, Guangxi Province, this motorcycle team completed more than 1, kilometers and more than 3 hours of riding after two days and one night. At that time, Zhou Sheng, who rode home with his lover, calculated an account for the reporter. Compared with riding a car, riding home one way can save about 1 yuan.