As Laos prepares to launch its section of a pan-Asia rail route that will eventually connect China to Singapore, the project has been regarded as cause for celebration for some but concern for others. The Laos section of the route a 414km, US$5.9 billion high-speed line financed by
Offshore survey ends for cross-sea rail bridge By LUO WANGSHU | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-15 09:43 Share CLOSE
China has completed an offshore survey for a cross-sea high-speed railway bridge in Zhejiang province that will become the world s longest such bridge upon completion.
The 29.2-kilometer Hangzhou Bay bridge, with a designed speed of 350 km per hour, will be part of the railway line linking Nantong in Jiangsu province and Ningbo in Zhejiang.
It is unclear when construction will begin.
The offshore survey that was completed on Monday took five months, two and a half months less than scheduled, said Zhang Peng, an engineer from China Railway Design Corporation, the bridge s designer.
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Intercity railway cuts travel time between Beijing, Xiong’an
By Ding Yiting, Zhang Zhifeng (People s Daily) 13:22, December 31, 2020 The 91-km intercity railway connecting Beijing and Xiong’an New Area in north China’s Hebei province opened to traffic on Dec. 27 after almost three years of construction. At 10:18 a.m. on that day, the C2702 Fuxing bullet train left the newly-built Xiong’an Railway Station for the Beijing West Railway Station.
Photo taken on Dec. 27 shows the Xiong’an Railway Station in Xiong’an New Area, north China’s Hebei province. (People’s Daily Online/Weng Qiyu) With a designed top speed of 350 km per hour, the railway has cut the travel time between the two railway stations to about 50 minutes. It also allows travelers to get to Xiong’an New Area from the Beijing Daxing International Airport in about 19 minutes.
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