China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

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China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
Source: Xinhua| 2019-05-23 13:03:49|Editor: Liangyu

QINGDAO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday rolled off the production line a prototype magnetic-levitation train with a designed top speed of 600 km per hour in the eastern city of Qingdao.

The debut of China's first high-speed maglev train testing prototype marks a major breakthrough for the country in the high-speed maglev transit system.

The testing prototype can check and optimize the key technologies and core system components of the high-speed maglev system and lay a technological basis for the forthcoming engineering prototype, said Ding Sansan, head of the train's research and development team and deputy chief engineer of CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., the train builder.

"Now the prototype has achieved static levitation and is in good condition," Ding said.

The train builder is currently building an experimental center and a trial production center for the high-speed maglev trains and expected to put them into operation in the second half of the year, he said.

The research and development of a five-carriage engineering prototype are going smoothly.

The engineering prototype is scheduled to roll off the production line in 2020 and go through comprehensive tests to finish integrated verification in 2021.

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High-speed railways in Shandong Province, Northern China

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Good news, HSR is underdeveloped in Shandong Province

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20.14-km railway tunnel drilled through in NW China
New China TV
Published on May 26, 2019

A 20.14-km tunnel along the Golmud-Dunhuang railway in northwest China was drilled through. Check it out.

 

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New railway opens to traffic in Xinjiang, China
New China TV
Published on May 31, 2019

Cutting across "Devil Wind Zone": A new railway opens to traffic in Xinjiang, China

 

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High-speed trains undergo check-ups by robots
New China TV
Published on Jun 17, 2019

High-speed trains undergo check-ups by robots at a major maintenance center in Chengdu. The maintenance center is the largest of its kind in SW China, which is equipped with three maintenance robots

 

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Future Sichuan-Tibet Railway could link Tibet with South Asian nations
By Liu Caiyu Source:Global Times Published: 2019/1/3 21:03:40

Workers lay tracks on the Yarlung Zangbo River bridge of the Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar County of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Nov. 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

The Sichuan-Tibet Railway, which is expected to start construction in late 2019, is slated to be a major artery of transportation linking China with South Asian countries, such as Nepal and India.

The State-owned China Railway Corp (CRC) said on Wednesday it aims to complete a feasibility study of the railway by the end of the second quarter of 2019 and seek the approval from the central government in the third quarter.

It hopes to complete initial designs for key sections of the railway, such as tunnels and bridges and make sure they are ready for construction by the third quarter, according to a CRC statement sent to the Global Times.

The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second railway into Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. It will go through the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the world's most geologically active areas.

Zhao Gancheng, director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, told the Global Times on Thursday that the railway aims to drive the economy of the region and strengthen the link between Tibet with the inland.

It can help with the possibility of a railway connecting China and Nepal, which could be a major route for China to reach South Asia, Zhao said.

The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will start from Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, travelling through Ya'an and enter Tibet via Qamdo. It will then go through Nyingchi prefecture before arriving at Lhasa, capital of Tibet. The total construction length will be 1,700 kilometers and will cost 250 billion yuan ($36.88 billion), the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The completion of the railway will help shorten the journey from Chengdu to Lhasa from 48 hours to 13 hours.

The 140-kilometer Chengdu-Ya'an section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway officially started operations to 11 stations on December 28, 2018, media reported.

Work on transportation artery Sichuan-Tibet Railway making progress
Source:Global Times Published: 2019/6/17 22:23:40

Workers lay railway tracks at the construction site of the section between Lhasa and Nyingchi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar County of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 16, 2018. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway climbs from the Sichuan Basin several hundred meters above sea level to the "Roof of the World", at an altitude of more than 4,400 meters. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

Construction work on the final section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway will start shortly, said Southwest China's Sichuan Province Party chief during a press conference at the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on Monday. Analysts said the railway will serve as a major transportation artery linking China and South Asia.

The Chengdu-Ya'an section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway has started operations, said Peng Qinghua, Party chief of Sichuan Province.

"The completion of the railway will not only drive the regional economy and strengthen the link between Tibet with the inland areas, but it also can serve as a major transportation artery linking China and South Asia," Zhao Jian, an expert on railway economics at the Beijing Jiaotong University, told the Global Times on Monday.

"The Sichuan-Tibet railway will make it possible to build a railway connecting China, Nepal, India and other countries, which will boost the regional economy with convenient transportation," Zhao said.

"Sichuan was the starting point of the southern silk road in history. Now it is the pivot of the Belt and Road Initiative economy belt, linking land and sea," said Peng.

The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second line linking Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region to other parts of China after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

The line is designed to start from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, passing through Ya'an and entering Tibet via Qamdo. It will then go through Nyingchi prefecture and end at Lhasa, capital of Tibet.

The Lhasa-Nyingchi section is under construction, said Peng. "The 1,000-kilometer Ya'an-Nyingchi section is part of the plan. Bridges and tunnels will cover over 90 percent of the line, that is to say, nearly 800 kilometers of tunnels and 100 kilometers of bridges."

"It is far more difficult to build the Sichuan-Tibet Railway than the Qinghai-Tibet Railway since geological conditions are complex along the Sichuan-Tibet line, with severe geological conditions and disasters such as permafrost, alpine hypoxia, landslides, earthquake zones, and geothermal and rock bursts," Zhao added.

The planned route will go through the Sichuan basin, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, climbing from several hundred meters above sea level to the "Roof of the World," at an altitude of more than 4,400 meters.

The railway will cut the travel time from Chengdu to Lhasa from 48 hours to 13 hours.

 

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850 Fuxing bullet trains put into service by 2019
New China TV
Published on Jun 22, 2019

On the fast track! China will see 850 Fuxing high-speed trains put into service by the end of this year

 

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Main tower of world's largest road-rail cable-stayed bridge built
Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-27 23:47:10|Editor: Yang Yi

Aerial photo taken on June 27, 2019 shows the construction site of a Yangtze River bridge on the Shanghai-Nantong railway line in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province. The south main tower of the bridge was completed on Thursday, marking an important progress of the construction of the cable-stayed railway-expressway bridge. (Xinhua/Xu Congjun)

NANJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Construction of the second 330-meter-tall tower for one of the world's largest cable-stayed bridges was completed in east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday.

The 11,072-meter-long Hutong Yangtze River Bridge, linking the cities of Nantong and Suzhou, is designed with a main span of 1,092 meters, making it the world's first road-rail cable-stayed bridge with a span over 1,000 meters.

Ning Chaoxin, with the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd (MBEC), the project's contractor, said the two cable towers are the key force structure of the bridge. The longer the bridge spans, the higher the cable tower needs to be.

To ensure the shipping on China's busiest waterway, the bridge is designed to have a longer span. About 73,000 cubic meters of concrete and 11,000 tonnes of steel bars were used to build each tower, whose height is equivalent to a 110-storey skyscraper.

Ning said the huge construction volume is required so that the bridge can withstand violent typhoons, magnitude-8 earthquakes and impacts from the collision of a 100,000-tonne ship.

The bridge will have a 6-lane expressway on the upper deck and four railway tracks on the lower deck.

The track laying on the bridge will start in January 2020, according to MBEC. The bridge is expected to ensure the river shipping on the Yangtze, while easing the road and railway traffic pressure in the Yangtze River Delta region, China's economic powerhouse.

 

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Mega service station for high-speed trains in Kunming
2019-05-10 10:52:37Ecns.cnEditor :Li Yan

Aerial photo shows a service station for high-speed trains in Kunming City, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, May 9, 2019. Nearly 30 workers helped lay the last rail measuring 25 meters in length and weighing 2.5 tons on Thursday, completing the rail-laying work for the service station. Successful expansion of the station will improve the use and maintenance of high-speed trains in Yunnan, also making it the largest such service station in southwest China. (Photo: China News Service/Miu Chao)

Mega service station for high-speed trains put into operation
CGTN
Published on Jun 30, 2019

A mega service station for high-speed trains was put into operation in Kunming City after nine months of construction. The station covers an area of 900,000 square meters, making it the largest of its kind in southwestern China, and it looks like an aircraft carrier from above.

 

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Sichuan-Tibet railway progress picks up steam
By WANG KEJU in Beijing and DAQIONG in Lhasa | China Daily | Updated: 2019-07-09 06:50

Workers deliver new railroad ties for Sichuan-Tibet railway in Dranang, the Tibet autonomous region, in June. [Photo/Xinhua]

The building of the Sichuan-Tibet railway is picking up steam, with construction work on nine new stations on the Lhasa-Nyingchi section in the Tibet autonomous region to begin soon, according to railway authorities.

The Office of the Leading Group of Railway Construction and Operation in Lhasa, Tibet's regional capital, said last week that the nine stations will be built by China Railway Construction Group and China Railway Construction Engineering Group, which won the bidding for the project, but the exact date that work will commence has yet to be determined.

An earlier report by Lhasa Radio and TV Station on one of its WeChat accounts said work on the stations was expected to begin this month and will be completed by the end of next year.

The laying of track on the 435.48-kilometer Lhasa-Nyingchi section, one of the easier parts of the Sichuan-Tibet railway, began in October, following four years of work to prepare for it. Trains traveling at 160 kilometers per hour are expected to begin running on that section by 2021.

The Sichuan-Tibet railway was first proposed more than a century ago, with the idea revived after the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, but various hurdles prevented it from progressing. Trains finally began running on the first section of the line to open, from Chengdu to Ya'an in Sichuan province, in December.

The third section of the line, between Ya'an and Nyingchi, will be one of the world's most challenging railway projects because it winds through the Sichuan Basin, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, climbing from 600 meters above sea level to nearly 4,500 meters, according to Zhao Jian, a professor of rail transportation at Beijing Jiaotong University.

"It will go through complicated geological conditions fraught with avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, heat, karst caves and underground streams," he said.

At its annual work conference in January, national railway operator China State Railway Group, which was then called China Railway Corp, said it would complete the feasibility study for the Ya'an-Nyingchi section by June and finish preparations for construction by the end of September. The group is also in charge of national railway planning and construction.

Things seem to have been progressing rapidly in the past month. People's Railway Daily, which is sponsored by the group, reported that the company reviewed the feasibility study for the Ya'an-Nyingchi section on June 4 and reached a consensus that would be passed on.

On June 17, Peng Qinghua, Party secretary of Sichuan, said at a news conference that construction of the Ya'an-Nyingchi section, spanning about 1,000 km, would begin soon.

"Bridges and tunnels will cover over 90 percent of the line, which means there will be nearly 800 km of tunnels and more than 100 km of bridges," he said.

The next day, when China State Railway Group announced its name change, finalizing its restructuring, it was disclosed that a new office had been established to lead the Sichuan-Tibet railway project. A new company, Sichuan-Tibet Railway, was also added to the existing 18 railway bureaus and companies controlled by the group.

On June 26, various government departments in Sichuan discussed the route selected for the Ya'an-Nyingchi section in the province and reached a consensus on the proposed route, according to the website of Sichuan's Department of Natural Resources.

Zhao, the professor, said, "Once in operation, the rail line will help Sichuan province build itself into an inland transportation hub within China as well as a bridge that connects the country with South Asian countries including Nepal and India, which will greatly boost the economy in southwestern China with convenient transportation."

The Sichuan-Tibet railway will be the second rail line connecting Tibet with the rest of the country. The 1,956-km Qinghai-Tibet Railway opened in 2006.

 

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China's high-speed rail offers model for other countries: World Bank
Source: Xinhua| 2019-07-08 23:53:46|Editor: Mu Xuequan

BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- China's high-speed railway (HSR) has registered rapid growth and offered many viable practices for other countries considering HSR investment, according to a World Bank report released Monday.

Key factors enabling the growth include the development of a comprehensive long-term plan and the standardization of designs and procedures, said the report, which summarizes China's HSR development.

China's Medium- and Long-Term Railway Plan, which looks up to 15 years ahead, provides a clear framework for the development of the system, according to the World Bank.

Meanwhile, the construction cost of the Chinese HSR network stood at about two-thirds of the cost in other countries, the report said, citing an average of 17 million U. S. dollars to 21 million U. S. dollars per km.

"China has built the largest high-speed rail network in the world. The impacts go well beyond the railway sector and include changed patterns of urban development, increases in tourism, and promotion of regional economic growth," said Martin Raiser, World Bank director of China.

By the end of 2018, the total railway operation mileage reached 131,000 km, five times higher than 1949, while the high-speed railway exceeded 29,000 km, accounting for more than 60 percent of the world's total, according to a recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics.

In China, high-speed rail service is competitive with road and air transport for distances of up to about 1,200 km, while fares are about one-fourth the base fares in other countries, which allows HSR trains to attract passengers from all income groups, the report said.

"Large numbers of people are now able to travel more easily and reliably than ever before, and the network has laid the groundwork for future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions," Raiser said.

 

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Dunhuang connected to China's high-speed rail network
Source: Xinhua| 2019-07-10 17:49:27|Editor: xuxin

LANZHOU, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Dunhuang, home to the world cultural heritage site Mogao Grottoes, is now connected to China's expansive high-speed rail network after a new railway operation map was implemented Wednesday.

Two pairs of high-speed railway run from Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province to Dunhuang, cutting the travel time from 13 hours to around eight hours, according to the new map.

Tourism has boomed in Dunhuang in recent years, with more than 10 million trips made to the city in 2018, up by nearly 20 percent year on year, according to local statistics.

"The high-speed rail is expected to improve passengers' experience and service quality in this hub of world cultural heritage," said Guo Lixia, with China Railway Lanzhou Group.

By the end of 2018, China's total railway operation mileage reached 131,000 km, five times higher than 1949, while the high-speed railway exceeded 29,000 km, accounting for more than 60 percent of the world's total, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.