New subway line for Beijing by 2022

A new subway line in Beijing connecting the Yizhuang economic development zone in Daxing district and Future Science City in Changping district will be in operation by the end of 2022. The line will ease traffic congestion in the capital’s northern residential area, local officials said on Monday. The construction of the new line 17,…

New track laid to upgrade China’s 100-year-old railway

BEIJING – With the last steel rail piece laid Wednesday in a tunnel underground the Tsinghua University in Beijing, the track of the whole length of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-Speed Railway has been built. The original railway linking the two cities, known as China’s first independently designed and built railway, was put into operation in 1909.…

Building of bridge over bay for high-speed rail begins

Construction of a high-speed railway bridge set to shorten the travel time between Shanghai and Zhejiang’s coastal city Ningbo started recently, authorities said. The 25-kilometer Hangzhou Bay Cross-Sea Railway Bridge is an important section of the high-speed railway connecting Jiaxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang province, an integral part of the one-hour traffic network in the…

Last beam of longest bridge along China-Laos railway erected

The last T-shaped beam was laid between two piers of the Nam Khone super major bridge, the longest bridge along the China-Laos railway, on Saturday in Lao capital Vientiane, marking the completion of the beam erection stage of the bridge construction. China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group (CREC-2), the Chinese engineering company in charge of…

Shenyang’s Metro Line 9 starts trial operations

Passengers take the metro in Shenyang, in Northeast China’s Liaoning province, on May 25. The first stage of the new Shenyang Metro Line 9 started trial operations that day. Residents using the Shenyang Metro Line 9 give the thumbs up on May 25. The first stage of Line 9 starts from Nujiang Park Station to…