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CR24's tunnel work makes progress

The Wenling-Yuhuan High-speed Railway in Zhejiang province, which is being co-built by China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp, made progress this week when a tunnel was bored through in Ningbo's Jiangxia. The railway project is expected to boost integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region. The Jiangxia tunnel is considered a significant project amid the HSR building as it is located near a reservoir and will go through many fault zones underneath, CR24 said. Upon completion, the railway line will facilitate links among Zhejiang's cities, especially with Taizhou, which will see all of its counties connected by the railway.

Special line to boost coal transport

A special railway line is being built in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, to boost the transport capacity of the Haolebaoji-Ji'an Railway — an artery channel for the country's north-south coal transport. State builder China Railway No 4 Engineering Group Co Ltd has completed the communication project of the Huamao Railway Special Line. The Haolebaoji-Ji'an Railway, originating at Haolebaoji South Station in Orods and passing through Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan provinces, terminates at Ji'an, Jiangxi province. The railway line is 1,813 kilometers long with 77 stations and its annual coal shipment volume will increase to 6 million metric tons.

PipeChina building second gas pipeline

China Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Corp, also known as Pipe-China, said on Friday that it has begun building a second natural gas pipeline that connects fields in Southwest China's Sichuan province with the east coast, with an annual transmission capacity of 20 billion cubic meters. The 4,269-kilometer-long pipeline originates in Sichuan and will join the current pipeline grid, reaching regasification terminals in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces on the east coast, said the company. After the project is completed, the annual transportation capacity of the Sichuan-to-East Gas Pipeline will increase to 35 billion cubic meters. The additional 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas supply each year would cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 29 million tons a year versus the equivalent use of coal, it said.

China Daily