New HSR in Guangxi to boost trade
China DailyCREC4 employees lay tracks on the Chongzuo-Pingxiang high-speed railway in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Monday. The Chongzuo-Pingxiang HSR, part of the railway linking Pingxiang with Nanning, the regional capital, started to lay tracks on Monday on all its lines, said Lu Shen, manager of the track-laying project from State builder China Railway No 4 Engineering Group Co Ltd. With four stations — Chongzuo South, Ningming East, Longzhou and Pingxiang East — on the 81.52-kilometer line, 85.63 percent of the Chongzuo-Pingxiang HSR will be railway bridges and tunnels, Lu said. Upon operation of the Chongzuo-Pingxiang section, Nanning and Pingxiang can be connected fully by a high-speed railway and be reached within one hour, said Wu Huaiqiu, publicity chief of CREC4 Eighth Engineering Co Ltd. Guangxi Communications Investment Group Corp Ltd, which invested in the Chongzuo-Pingxiang section, said the section had achieved full completion in terms of building roads, bridges and tunnels by mid-October, and now it is time for 165.75 km of track laying, including 159.51 km of tracks on the main line, and 6.24 km of tracks within railway stations.
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