Slow Trains | Tencent “Living”



Zhao Heting—Tencent “Living”

In the age of bullet trains and Maglevs, their poky forebears are still the only mode of rail transportation in many rural areas of China. Tencent photographers Zhao Heting and Feng Haiyong photographed three slow-train routes: Urumqi to Hotan, Xinjiang; Shuangyashan Mining Railway, Heilongjiang; and Panzhihua to Puxiong, Sichuan.

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In the age of bullet trains and Maglevs, their poky forebears are still the only mode of rail transportation in many rural areas of China. Tencent photographers Zhao Heting and Feng Haiyong photographed three slow-train routes: Urumqi to Hotan, Xinjiang; Shuangyashan Mining Railway, Heilongjiang; and Panzhihua to Puxiong, Sichuan.