East China’s Jiangsu province has revved up the construction of major investment projects and ensured their smooth progress through every possible effort so as to ensure the fulfillment of this year’s goals for social and economic development. Let’s take a close look.
A few days ago, two hot-sliding test locomotives slowly drove out of Nantong West Station, marking the official start of the full-line hot-sliding test of Yancheng-Nantong high-speed rail.
The Yancheng-Nantong high-speed rail is an important part of the coastal railway in the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network. It is also the first high-speed rail with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour in northern Jiangsu.
Starting from Yancheng Station on the Xuzhou-Yancheng Railway in the north, and stretching to Nantong West Station on the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway in the south, the 156.6-kilometer Yancheng-Nantong high-speed rail is expected to be put into operation by the end of this year.
At 1:58 Monday morning, the last T-beam was erected on the Lianyungang-Xuzhou high-speed railway, marking the completion of all bridge erection facilities and the successful merging of the railway with the Qingdao-Yancheng railway. The next step will see the static acceptance stage to lay a solid foundation for smooth operation and railway’s opening to traffic.
