Trivial acts mean a lot on China's public transport
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China is expected to comprehensively improve its transportation in service, management and technical level by 2035. (Photo: VCG)

You probably don’t remember those who smile at you when you get on a bus or pass a highway tollbooth. You also might not think about the person who does the research to make your wifi work better. But those people make your life easier, and China’s transportation better.

Yang Miaomiao, a bus driver in the city of Bengbu, east China’s Anhui Province, has driven 800,000 kilometers and transported five million passengers in her 24 years on the job. She’s also seen many changes and developments in the nation's bus system over that time.

“Construction of public transport stations over the past five years has reached the sum of [that throughout] the past three decades. Also, we offer special lines to passengers that have preferential needs. There’s a student line, an industry park line and so on. Plus, we have mini buses that can cross narrow streets, taking some right to their front door,” Yang said.

Zhong Songmin, a marine emergency rescue salvage expert and senior diver, has rescued many people from sinking ships. He’s proud of what he’s doing.

“The salvage job totally depends on the weather. We sometimes have to work for months straight in adverse weather. But the job allows me to marvel over life's goodness. Whether it's saving people’s lives or warding off disaster, this sacred duty is mine,” Zhong said.

China is expected to comprehensively improve its transportation in service, management and technical level by 2035. Most of all, China's transportation needs to meet the requirements of people's growing living standard. And that's what people like Yang Miaomiao and Zhong Songmin are working on.