New rail line to transport coal from Inner Mongolia

The Inner Mongolia autonomous region will start the construction of a 1000-km rail line to transport coal next year to ease the country's coal transportation bottlenecks.

The project will start from Erdos in Inner Mongolia and end in Caofeidian in Tangshan, Hebei province. It is expected to transport 200 million tons of coal annually, sources close to the project said yesterday.

The project is in line with the government's policy to boost domestic demand.