The year 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China. From an obscure island to a crucial platform of China's reform and opening-up, Hainan, which is situated in the southern part of China, has changed considerably over the past seven decades.
Steam locomotives run on Hainan railways in the 1990s. [Photo/Hainan Daily]
Grassroots workers from all walks of life in Hainan have always been contributing to the prosperity of the People's Republic of China, including Sheng Enwei, an experienced railway driver.
Sheng Enwei poses for a photo with a diesel locomotive. [Photo/Hainan Daily]
Sheng, who grew up in Ledong Li Autonomous County in Hainan, has been a senior engine driver since 1989. From steam and diesel locomotives to the high-speed trains currently used, he has witnessed the development of China's railways systemfrom the Sanya-Basuo Railway, one of the oldest railways in China, to the Guangdong-Hainan Railway, the first cross-sea railway in China, to the Hainan Island-looping High Speed Railway that opened in Dec 2015.
Sheng Enwei poses for a photo with a bullet train which is equipped with an advanced automatic control system. [Photo/Hainan Daily]
Thirty years ago, the 16-year-old Sheng succeeded the job of his father's and took part in railway work. At the Basuo Locomotive Deport of Hainan Railway Bureau, he drove the steam locomotive his father had once driven.
"When compared with the locomotives that I used to drive, it's really a pleasure to drive the high-speed trains nowadays," Sheng said, adding he felt very proud to drive trains on the land of Hainan.
The multiple train generations have carried the careers and dreams of the railway workers, and the high-speed railway trains today also contain the expectations of the eight million people in Hainan.
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