The main body of the arch bridge of Dali-Ruili railway over Nujiang River in southwest China’s Yunnan was completed on Monday. The bridge is currently the longest-spanning railway arch bridge with a single span of 490 meters.
The high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of the Beijing2022 Winter Olympics, went into operation Monday. The railway is 174 km long, with a max design speed of 350 kph.
The first high-speed railway linking Beijing and north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region went into service Monday, cutting the travel time between Hohhot and Beijing, about 500 km apart, from over 9 hours to about two hours with the launch of the new service.
Pingtang Bridge, the highest concrete bridge tower in the world, on Monday opened to traffic in SW China’s Guizhou.
The bridge will serve as a major connection on the Pingtang-Luodian Expressway. The opening of the bridge will reduce the travel time between Pingtang and Luodian from over two and a half hours to about one hour.
