2018年CRI Chongqing's national and international roles

 

The Streaming Down the Yangtze team has arrived in Chongqing.

This is where the team will officially begin its 2-week trek¹ down the Yangtze River.

The team will make stops in the cities of Yueyang, Wuhan, Jiujiang and Nanjing before reaching the final destination - Shanghai - where the Yangtze enters into the sea.

Chongqing is a key city on the Yangtze River, a transportation hub for western China, and also a key link along the Belt and Road.

For more on the trip, and what's happening in Chongqing, CRI's Paul James spoke² earlier with with Yang Guang, CRI's reporter on the trip.

"We boarded the ship yesterday afternoon at a dock in downtown Chongqing and we now have arrived in Wanzhou District of Chongqing City, where we will have a look at a local river cleaning project. Our ship runs 30 kilometers per hour on average and is expected to reach Shanghai in 13 days after traveling over 1800 kilometers on water.

For the following journey every day we will leave the ship at daytime to visit the cities or counties we stop by and return to the ship at night to continue the trip.

Traveling on the river means we can see the Yangtze River from a very different perspective. On the ship we are able to observe the river closely and constantly see the banks of the river, comparing different places in terms of ecological³ situation, people's lifestyles and farming and industrial activities.

This is very different from traveling by land because on land we goes spot to spot but now t's more about consistency⁴.

Yesterday we visited an inland port on the Yangtze River in Chongqing called Guoyuan Port. It's one of the biggest ports of the area, which can handle 30 million tons of cargoes⁶ annually⁷. The advantage of the port is that it has the water depth similar to a sea port, which means those big freighters would be able to dock here to load and unload cargoes.

Besides Guoyuan Port's role as an inland port, it also functions along the Belt and Road route. Chongqing is already on the China-Europe rail line with at least one cargo⁵ train loaded with Chinese car, chemical and food products, departing here destined⁸ to cities like Belarus' Minsk and Germnay's Duisburg. Meantime southward railways and sea routes can mobilize products to Southeast Asian countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

In this sense, a railway has already been built across Guoyuan Port, which means cargoes from river can be immediately loaded on trains and transported to different railway junctions⁹ for further conveying. Guoyuan Port is a typical example of how rail lines are seamlessly connected with water ways.

In this way the goods from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan Provinces, which don't have very mature logistics system, can depend on Yangtze River to be transported to the hub of Chongqing and further to domestic cities and to Belt and Road countries through railways.

The manager of Guoyuan Port told us the role Chongqing plays between Yangtze and Belt and Road has become increasingly significant and the city will benefit more from this trade openness."

1 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 ecological   

adj.生态的，生态学的

参考例句：

• The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.这个地区已经宣布为生态灾难区。
• Each animal has its ecological niche.每种动物都有自己的生态位.

4 consistency   

n.一贯性，前后一致，稳定性；(液体的)浓度

参考例句：

• Your behaviour lacks consistency.你的行为缺乏一贯性。
• We appreciate the consistency and stability in China and in Chinese politics.我们赞赏中国及其政策的连续性和稳定性。

5 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

6 cargoes   

n.（船或飞机装载的）货物( cargo的名词复数 )；大量，重负

参考例句：

• This ship embarked cargoes. 这艘船装载货物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The crew lashed cargoes of timber down. 全体船员将木材绑牢。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 annually   

adv.一年一次，每年

参考例句：

• Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
• They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。

8 destined   

adj.命中注定的；(for)以…为目的地的

参考例句：

• It was destined that they would marry.他们结婚是缘分。
• The shipment is destined for America.这批货物将运往美国。

9 junctions   

联结点( junction的名词复数 )； 会合点； （公路或铁路的）交叉路口； （电缆等的）主结点

参考例句：

• Metals which were mutually soluble would tend to give strong junctions. 可互溶的金属趋向于产生牢固的结合点。
• Some adhering junctions are present as narrow bands connecting two cells. 有些粘附连接以一窄带的形式连接两个细胞。