National railway fixed asset investment in the first two months exceeded 70 billion yuan

Hu Yongqiu

Beijing, March 11 (Reporter Yan Bing) — According to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. on the 11th, from January to February this year, the national railway completed fixed asset investments of 72.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%. High-quality and efficient railway construction is advancing, injecting new momentum into regional economic and social development.

During the Spring Festival holiday this year, over 570 key railway projects across 46 major construction sites continued construction, with more than 38,000 workers on the front lines. After the holiday, efforts were made to strengthen organization for resuming work and production on halted projects, and a number of key engineering projects made positive progress. In Henan, at the construction site of the Qinge High-Speed Railway’s critical and difficult Qinge River Bridge, over 200 builders are working hard to advance the pile foundation construction of the bridge. The Qinge River Bridge is 11.99 kilometers long, with the deepest pile foundation reaching 108 meters. In Shandong, the second section of the Weishu High-Speed Railway station project, built by China Railway 14th Bureau, fully resumed work after the holiday. The construction of the Weifang Grand Bridge, crossing the Weiqing Expressway, is progressing steadily, and the lower structure of the bridge has been successfully completed.