Workers from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group, who are helping build the 399-kilometer-long Weifang-Suqian High-speed Railway, successfully rotate a 129.5-meter-long continuous beam in Weifang, Shandong province, on Aug 11. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Amid the country's new push to increase the operating mileage of railways, Chinese State builders are making progress in bolstering construction of a second high-speed railway that will link Beijing and Shanghai.
Workers from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group, who are helping build the 399-kilometer-long Weifang-Suqian HSR, successfully rotated a continuous beam that traverses the existing Weifang-Rongcheng HSR in Shandong province in the early hours of Aug 11.
The 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, Zhang Buwei, a CREC4 staff member, said.
Part of the national "Eight Verticals and Eight Horizontals" HSR network, the high-speed railway can help facilitate local travel and support the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin regions, he said.
