China News Agency, Beijing, February 8 (Reporter Zhou Yin) China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as China Railway Group) disclosed that the Xuzhou-Lianyungang high-speed railway (hereinafter referred to as the Xulian high-speed rail) opened on the 8th. Xuzhou and It takes 60 minutes to reach Lianyungang.
So far, the longest horizontal passage of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network-Lianyungang-Urumqi high-speed railway has been connected.
After the Xulian High-speed Railway was put into operation, the railway department arranged 7 pairs of mobile trains every day, with an initial operating speed of 300 kilometers per hour.
The railway department started selling tickets for the Xulian high-speed rail EMU train at 20:00 on February 7.
The Xulian High-speed Railway starts from Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province in the west, ends at Lianyungang City in the east, and passes through Xuzhou Economic Development Zone, Tongshan District, Pizhou City, Xinyi City, and Donghai County and Haizhou District of Lianyungang City along the line. The total length is 185 kilometers and the design speed is 350 per hour. Km, the whole line has 6 passenger stations including Xuzhou East, Daxunan (not for passenger transport service), Pizhou East, Xinyinan, Donghai County, and Lianyungang.
According to the State Railway Group, the Xulian High-speed Railway is the easternmost section and the last section of the Lianyungang-Urumqi passage in China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network.
After the completion of the Xulian High-speed Railway, it will connect with the Zhengzhou-Xuzhou, Zhengzhou-Xi'an, Xi'an-Baoji, Baoji-Lanzhou, and Lanzhou-Urumqi high-speed railways that have been in operation before, forming a high-speed railway channel with a total length of 3,422 kilometers. The development of the Continental Bridge Economic Corridor provides strong support.
China Railway Group stated that the Xu-Lian high-speed rail is also an important link connecting the Beijing-Shanghai channel and the coastal railway channel. The Xuzhou hub connects the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail, the Zhengxu high-speed rail, and the Xuyan high-speed rail, and the coastal railway channel and the Lianzhen high-speed rail in Lianyungang. Improve the structure of the railway network.
The opening and operation of the Xulian High-speed Railway greatly facilitates the travel of people along the line, effectively releases the existing railway freight capacity, is conducive to strengthening the leading and supporting role of the eastern starting point of the Lianyungang New Eurasian Continental Bridge Economic Corridor, and is conducive to making Xuzhou the center of the Huaihai Economic Zone The radiating and leading role of the city is of great significance to promoting the economic and social development of northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong, and assisting the construction of the Huai River ecological economic belt and the "Belt and Road".
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