East China’s Jiangsu province invested nearly 100 billion yuan in transportation infrastructure in the first half of this year, latest statistics show.
Jiangsu is accelerating the construction of the Southern Yangtze River Intercity Railway to ensure that it will be put into operation next year.
The main structure of each station along the line is capped, the steel structure grid frame is hoisted and welded, and the electro-mechanical pipeline is under construction.
On the construction site of Jiangyin Station, the workers avoided the hottest time period from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. The construction team set up a tea room, equipped with anti-heatstroke medicines, as well as mineral water, salt soda, mung bean soup, and barley tea to prevent workers from heat stroke.
Pan Xiaocong, Site Manager of Jiangyin Station Project Department of China Railway Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
In the first half of the year, Jiangsu made significant progress in the promotion of major transportation infrastructure construction.
The Nanjing Xianxin Road Yangtze River Bridge and the main tower of the Longtan Yangtze River Bridge have been capped. The Jiangyin-Jingjiang Yangtze River Tunnel was excavated, the Zhangjiagang-Jingjiang-Rugao Yangtze River Bridge was under construction. The second phase of the 300,000-ton waterway project in Lianyungang Port has been basically completed, and many airport expansion projects have been launched one after another.
Nine of the 12 newly-started projects included in the annual provincial major project list have started. In the first half of the year, the province invested 99.48 billion yuan in transportation infrastructure construction, accounting for 55% of the annual plan. 64.11 billion yuan was invested in transportation projects included in the provincial list of major projects, accounting for 59.2% of the annual plan.
