CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Recently, Lishuwan Section of “Old Railway Mountain City Footpath” in Shapingba District, Chongqing Municipality has become popular on the Internet. Many citizens have an outing in spring, and even tourists from other places come here.

Walking from the intersection near 242 Yangli Road, along the pale old sleepers and rusty tracks, you can enter into this old railway footpath. On the footpath, there is a long corridor with a length of several hundred meters, which is on a railroad track against mountain side. The wire grids on both sides are covered with emerald green roses. Although most of the roses have withered in the past few days, there are still many pink and red roses reluctantly sticking out of the emerald green and swaying, to greet passing tourists. This also has attracted many people to take pictures under branches.

The old railway, surrounded by green grass and yellow wild chrysanthemums, is full of vitality and is fresh and natural without the rich multicolored decorations of roses. Bees and butterflies fly from time to time, the sun is shined from the treetops, and the fragrance of grass is brought by the spring breeze. Walking along the footpath, tourists seem to enter a tunnel through time and space, which is away from the noise of the city. They can seek the campus imprint of youth here, and feel the heavy of industrial relics...

It is understood that Zhazidong Prison Railway Tunnel and Lishuwan in Shapingba District are connected by the Old Railway Mountain City Footpath which has a total length of about 3 kilometers. This railway used to be the special railway of the original Chongqing Special Steel Plant and was later abandoned. Because passing through Sichuan International Studies University, this railway was once known by the public as the “small railway in Sichuan International Studies University”. Now, the “Old Railway Mountain City Footpath” has become a distinctive boutique route among the “Mountain City Footpaths” in Chongqing.