Yunnan to enter high-speed rail era next year

By high-speed rail, it will take four hours to travel from Kunming to Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province and about ten hours to reach Shanghai. Whether for sightseeing or on business, this is really promising! So, how is construction of Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Rail, Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail and the Kunming South High-Speed Railway Station? When will Yunnan usher in the high-speed rail era? As we recently learnt from Kunming Railway Bureau recently, the construction of Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Rail is progressing rapidly; it will be ready for integrated commissioning and testing next June and will go into full operation by the end of next year.

According to Zhang Caichun, deputy secretary of Kunming Railway Bureau committee of the CPC, the Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail will also go into operation by the end of next year after integrated commissioning and testing. Currently, its bridges and most roadbeds have been completed, and the construction of communications, signalling, electric power, traction power supply and house-building projects are going on smoothly.

In the national “Mid- and Long-Term Railway Network Plan”, the Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Rail is one of China’s “four vertical and four horizontal” fast passenger transport channels. Also known as the Shanghai-Kunming Passenger Line, it runs from Shanghai in the east and Kunming in the west; it will be the longest east-west high-speed rail and will pass through the largest number of provinces. It will call at Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Changsha, Guiyang and Kunming, with a total length of 2,264 km and a design speed of 350 km/h. The Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail is a trunk railway in the national “Mid- and Long-Term Railway Network Plan” and it will be the most convenient railway channel to connect Yunnan with the southeast coastal region. The main line of the Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Railway will be 434 km in length; the design speed is 200 km/h, which can be increased to 250 km/h when necessary.

According to Zhang Caichun, besides the Kunming-Shanghai High-Speed Rail and the Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail, Kunming Railway Bureau is also extending the high-speed rail to western and southern Yunnan. For example, the Kunming Southeast Ring Project, or the Kunyang-Yuxi High-Speed Rail, now under construction, extends to southern Yunnan; the Guangtong-Dali High-Speed Rail extends to western Yunnan. They both have a design speed of 200 km/h and the construction is speeding up. In time, Kunming will not only join the national high-speed rail network but also radiate to western and southern Yunnan by high-grade railways.

Yunnan to enter high-speed rail era next year

By high-speed rail, it will take four hours to travel from Kunming to Changsha, capital of central Chinas Hunan Province and about ten hours to reach Shanghai. Whether for sightseeing or on business, this is really promising! So, how is construction of Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Rail, Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail and the Kunming South High-Speed Railway Station? When will Yunnan usher in the high-speed rail era? As we recently learnt from Kunming Railway Bureau recently, the construction of Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Rail is progressing rapidly; it will be ready for integrated commissioning and testing next June and will go into full operation by the end of next year. According to Zhang Caichun, deputy secretary of Kunming Railway Bureau committee of the CPC, the Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail will also go into operation by the end of next year after integrated commissioning and testing. Currently, its bridges and most roadbeds have been completed, and the construction of communications, signalling, electric power, traction power supply and house-building projects are going on smoothly. In the national Mid- and Long-Term Railway Network Plan, the Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Rail is one of Chinas four vertical and four horizontal fast passenger transport channels. Also known as the Shanghai-Kunming Passenger Line, it runs from Shanghai in the east and Kunming in the west; it will be the longest east-west high-speed rail and will pass through the largest number of provinces. It will call at Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Changsha, Guiyang and Kunming, with a total length of 2,264 km and a design speed of 350 km/h. The Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail is a trunk railway in the national Mid- and Long-Term Railway Network Plan and it will be the most convenient railway channel to connect Yunnan with the southeast coastal region. The main line of the Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Railway will be 434 km in length; the design speed is 200 km/h, which can be increased to 250 km/h when necessary. According to Zhang Caichun, besides the Kunming-Shanghai High-Speed Rail and the Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Rail, Kunming Railway Bureau is also extending the high-speed rail to western and southern Yunnan. For example, the Kunming Southeast Ring Project, or the Kunyang-Yuxi High-Speed Rail, now under construction, extends to southern Yunnan; the Guangtong-Dali High-Speed Rail extends to western Yunnan. They both have a design speed of 200 km/h and the construction is speeding up. In time, Kunming will not only join the national high-speed rail network but also radiate to western and southern Yunnan by high-grade railways.