9-27-20, “Jinghua” 京华号 extra-large diameter shield machine rolled off the production line in Changsha.
The shield machine is 150 meters long, weighs 4,300 tons and has a maximum excavation diameter of 16.07 meters.
This is China’s largest diameter shield machine developed so far, it will be involved in the construction of the sixth ring of the East Beijing reconstruction project after delivery.
China’s fastest subway train — traveling at 160 kilometers an hour — debuted in Guangzhou, the capital of South China’s Guangdong Province, on Friday, according to media reports.
The subway train will be put into service at Guangzhou Metro’s No. 18 and No. 22 metro lines, which are currently still under construction. Once it is put into service, it will take only 25 minutes and 30 minutes from Nansha Free Trade Zone to the South Guangzhou train station and East Guangzhou train station, respectively.
The two lines will extend to Guangdong’s Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Dongguan cities in the future.
The train — manufactured by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co — is also the first subway to travel at 160 kilometers an hour in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The train uses the most advanced design techniques, technological protocols and innovation. It also introduces an intelligent operation and maintenance system based on big data and cloud computing, according to a report by news website qq.com.
The Guangzhou railway authority has ordered 40 such trains to run on its No. 18 and No. 22 lines from CRRC. The next delivery after the first train will begin in October.
One of the new Waratah Series 2 trains was unveiled at Central Station and is set to enter service on Thursday, several months ahead of schedule.
Five others remain in testing in Australia, while a further 11 are expected to arrive from China before the end of the year. They will operate across the T2, T3, T8 Airport and South lines. The 17 trains were expected to cost the government close to $900 million when they were ordered last year amid record growth on the city’s transport network.
The new Waratah Series 2 trains will be airconditioned, feature internal and external CCTV as well as wheelchair spaces. 41 new Waratah trains will be operating across the network.
China Railway Construction Corporation International (CRCCI) announced on Tuesday that it has inked a construction deal to build a section of the Moscow-Kazan Highway project in Russia. The project is worth 5.2 billion yuan ($767 million). This is the first time that a Chinese company has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a national highway project in Russia. The Moscow-Kazan Highway is part of the Russian section of the Europe-Western China Transport Corridor, a megaproject that connects Russia, Kazakhstan and China. CRCCI will be in charge of building a 107-kilometer-long section of the Moscow-Kazan Highway, with a total length of 729 kilometers. It is expected that by its completion in 2024, the travel time from Moscow to Kazan, the sixth-largest city in Russia, will be shortened from 12 hours to 6.5 hours.
State Grid Corporation of China has become the world’s No.1 in installed capacity of grid connection and highest in voltage level, and the only super-large power grid that has not experienced large-scale blackout in recent 20 years.
The next step will be to upgrade the power grid to the energy Internet, with R&D spending reaching 16 billion yuan ($2.3 billion) by 2025, an increase of two-thirds over 2019.
Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region had constructed asphalt roads in all its counties by August, the regional transport department said.
The region had also built hard roads in 86.4 percent of its townships and 61.4 percent of administrative villages. So far, it has rebuilt 38,200 km of rural highways, and 86,000 km of rural highways have been opened to traffic, according to the department.
Tibet has a huge amount of land, harsh natural environment and poor transportation conditions due to historical reasons. By the end of 2015, highways had not reached two townships and 230 administrative villages in the region, said Xu Wenqiang, director of the department.
The region has seen accelerated development in rural road construction and transportation in farming and pastoral areas in the last five years. Passenger transport network has also improved in Tibet, with 74 counties, 476 townships and 2,050 administrative villages accessible by buses, Xu added.
So far, 547,000 people have been employed in highway construction projects. Farmers and herdsmen have seen their income increase by 13.72 billion yuan (about 2 billion U.S. dollars) in total, said Tashi Norbu, who works for the rural highway office of the regional transport department.
福建龙岩市龙岩大桥 The bridge had undergone its first rotation a little over four months ago. The bridge tower was rotated 69-degree the first time to allow the completion of the bridge deck installation.
At around 2:30 a.m. the cable-stayed bridge and deck with a total weight of 23,600 tons completed a 21-degree counterclockwise rotation, it took about an hour. It is the first time in the world for the “second horizontal rotation” construction process.
The reason for the second rotation is because there’s a “double risk” in the construction of the Longyan Bridge.
The first is that the Longyan Bridge will cross the existing Ganlong Railway and Longxia Railway 赣龙铁路、龙厦铁路 . Nearly 120 trains pass through these two railroads every day.
The second is that the shortest distance between the main tower and the railway line is only 6.5 meters.
The two turns are to overcome these two risks.
When completed the Longyearbyen Bridge will be an important link in the Longyan expressway system improving the efficiency of local transport operations and helping to accelerate the development of the old area.
By chance, he saw a map of the bus route from Guangzhou to Shanghai, gave him the idea to travel by public transit.
The total distance from Guangzhou to Shanghai is 1,922 km. He brought only one bag on this trip.
On August 7, Tian Xiaolang departed from Jiangmen, Guangdong. For ten days, he’s been through 600 or 700 bus stops. He has just arrived in Zhangzhou, Fujian province.
Tian Xiaolang said. At the most, it was an 8-hour ride a day. Spending an average of no more than ¥ 150 per day. It’s cost about ¥2,000 so far.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will implement 13 intercity railway projects with a total mileage of about 775 kilometers, as well as five integrated transport hub projects, with a planned total investment of 474.1 billion yuan. The newly approved railway construction plan will build a multi-level railway network with high-speed railways, general-speed railways and suburban railways in the Greater Bay Area, to form a transportation circle with one-hour access between major cities in the Greater Bay Area, two-hour access between major cities and inland cities in Guangdong Province, and three-hour access between major cities and neighboring provincial capitals, thus creating a “Greater Bay Area on a track”.
包海高速铁路又名包海客运专线，是国家《中长期铁路网规划》中“八纵八横”高速铁路主通道包头至海口通道包头至海口的高速铁路。北起内蒙古包头，向南经鄂尔多斯、榆林、延安、铜川、西安、安康、达州、重庆、贵阳、河池、南宁、钦州、湛江等，终点为海南省海口市。2016年9月14日，贵南高铁可行性研究报告获国家发改委批复。2016年12月21日，包海线西安-延安-榆林高铁西延段开工建设。2016年12月29日，贵南高铁建设动员大会在广西壮族自治区河池市都安瑶族自治县举行，预计2022年12月建成通车。西安至重庆段陕渝两省力争早日开工，而重庆至贵阳段近期由在建渝黔快铁组成，远期将另建一条客运专线即渝贵高铁。南宁至海口段，其中南宁至北海段已经通车，北海至海口段也将在“十三五”内规划建设。整条客运专线都将在2025年底前建成。
