30 Apr 2010
Qingchengshan Expo Tourism Brand Special Train was officially launched on April 26, which was jointly organized by Qingchengshan-Dujiangyan Scenic Area Administration Bureau and China?s leading railway media operation ? Huatie Media. Dujiangyan city will combine the attractions full of folk customs with 2010 Shanghai Expo, in order to promote its tourism economic development.
The railway is an important means of transportation in China. As the largest transportation network, it links the East and West of China. The railway transports more than ten million passengers a year. In this huge passenger flow, the number of persons on tourism and business purposes accounts for about 75%.
It is estimated that during the Expo there will be 70 million visitors from home and abroad to Shanghai, among which 28 million people will go there by railway. Qingchengshan-Dujiangyan Scenic Area Administration Bureau thus decided to launch the Expo Tour Brand Special Train and to build a brand new Dujiangyan.
This special train launched between Shanghai and Chengdu city is the largest train from the Southwest China to Shanghai by the way of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang. The train will display the splendid Dujiangyan in forms of color stickers on the display racks, posters, films, tickets, and radio on the trains.