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China builds 200-kph railway in Fujian
(People's Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-04 10:00
China has started building a 200 kilometer-per-hour railway from Fuzhou,
capital city of East China's Fujian Province, to Xiamen, a coastal city in the
province.
The line, with a length of 273 kilometers and a total investment
of 14.42 billion yuan (US$1.78 billion), will be completed in 2009.
Since
the railway will be constructed in high land, about 40 percent of the railway
will be on bridges and in tunnels.
The Fuzhou-Xiamen line is part of China's
coastal network of express railways.
The original railways in the province,
with speeds of 60 to 70 kilometers per hour, are antiquated, a local official
said.
The Fuzhou-Xiamen line will connect the original ones and form a
network within the province, he said.
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