The left and right sides of the 220.3-meter Weifang Super Bridge, built by constructors from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group in parallel with the existing Qingdao-Jinan passenger and cargo transport lines in Shandong province, are rotated later to traverse the two railways, serving the Weifang-Suqian High-speed Railway. SHI JIAMIN/FOR CHINA DAILY
Amid the country's new drive to expand the operating mileage of railways, constructors from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group are making efforts to bolster construction of a second high-speed railway that can link Beijing and Shanghai.
The 399-kilometer-long Weifang-Suqian HSR, with an investment of some 76 billion yuan ($11.2 billion), can directly connect Weifang in Shandong province and Suqian in Jiangsu province, with 12 stations, including Weifang North, Anqiu, Zhucheng West, Wulian North, Juxian North, Yinan, Linyi North, Lanling and Suqian East, said Li Jinpeng, a CREC4 employee.
As part of the national "Eight Verticals and Eight Horizontals" HSR network, the Weifang-Suqian HSR can help facilitate local travel and support the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin regions, he said.
At present, construction of the Shandong section — extending 324.8 km between Weifang North Station in the north and the Shandong-Jiangsu border with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour for the trains — is in full progress, Li said.
