Guinan high-speed railway begins to lay tracks with a total length of 482 kilometers and a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

Thank you CTOnews.com netizens for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com, August 26, according to the release of China Railway, 10:18 on August 26, the first pair of 500m long rails were smoothly laid on the Xin'an double-line Bridge in Duyun, Guizhou Province, marking the official entry of the Guiyang-Nanning high-speed railway into the full-line laying stage and laying a solid foundation for the scheduled opening and operation of the project.

The Guinan high-speed railway runs through the southeast of Guizhou Province and the northwest of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, with a total length of 482 kilometers, of which the Guizhou section is about 200 kilometers long, and the bridge-tunnel ratio is as high as 91 percent. Two new high-speed railway stations in Shandong and Libo have been built, and three high-speed railway stations in Longli, Guiding County and Duyundong have been renovated and expanded. At present, the "four electricity" project, station building project and track laying work of the project have been started in an all-round way, and the planned nodes have been carried out in an orderly manner.

Guinan high-speed railway is an important part of Baotou to Haikou in China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network, with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. CTOnews.com learned that after the completion and opening of the entire line, the train running time from Guiyang to Nanning will be shortened from more than five hours to about two hours, and will link up with high-speed railways such as Shanghai, Kunming and Chenggui, and become a convenient and fast passenger transport channel from Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou and even the northwest to the Beibu Gulf, western Guangdong and Hainan.

▲ high-speed rail line map