Wang Mingzheng, director of Dali railway station, one of 11 stations on the line, sees firsthand the increase in people taking the train. “The number of daily passengers at our station has gone up from about 100 when the line opened in 2010 to about 2,000 today. The number of staff working at our station has increased from 25 in 2010 to 65, and 70% of them are women.”