Mile-Mengzi Railway construction begins

On May 30, the Mile-Mengzi Railway in Yunnan Province officially started construction. Upon it is completed, people will be able to travel between Kunming and Mengzi in just two hours.

The Mile-Mengzi Railway starts from Mile Station, which sits on the Kunming-Nanning Railway. It runs south through stations at the cities of Mile and Kaiyuan before terminating at Mengzi. It also connects to the Kunming-Yuxi-Hekou Railway, an international channel between China and Vietnam. This railway network functions with Kunming as the major hub. The main railway line stretches for 107 kilometres and is designed with a speed of 250 kilometres per hour. The construction period is expected to last six years.

The Mile-Mengzi Railway is an important part of the southwest China’s outbound channel to Vietnam and other ASEAN states. When completed, it will serve as a convenient passenger transportation corridor between city clusters in central Yunnan and southeastern Yunnan, and promote the province’s economic and trade ties and people-to-people exchanges with the countries of South and Southeast Asia.