China News Service, Fangchenggang, November 9 (Wang Weichen, Mo Yujie, Mo Yujie and Cui Yongjian) After more than 900 days of construction, the Tongguling Tunnel, the longest tunnel on the entire line from Fangchenggang, Guangxi to Dongxing Railway (Fangdong Railway), was successfully completed on the 9th, marking China The first full-line high-speed rail tunnel directly connected to the border port between China and Vietnam is through, creating favorable conditions for the construction of the next track laying, communication, and signal engineering.
According to reports, the Fangdong Railway, as an extension of the high-speed rail along the coast of Guangxi, is the first railway to reach Dongxing, the sea-land connecting port of China and ASEAN countries.
The total length of the line is 46.9 kilometers, and the infrastructure is reserved for 250 kilometers/hour, including 8 tunnels. Among them, the Tongguling Tunnel is 3790 meters long, which is the longest tunnel in the entire line.
Liao Gang, deputy commander of the Coastal Railway Engineering Construction Headquarters of China Railway Nanning Bureau Group Co., Ltd., introduced that after the completion and operation of the Fangdong Railway, the history of no railway traffic between Fangchenggang and Dongxing will end, and the transportation time between the two places will be shortened from the current 90 minutes to 20 minutes, greatly improving the urban traffic conditions at border ports.
With the continuous advancement of the construction of new land-sea corridors in the west and the upgraded version of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, China and ASEAN countries have become closer in economic and trade exchanges.
From January to October this year, the number of China-Vietnam cross-border cargo trains via Guangxi reached 1,496, including 272 container trains, an increase of 57.5% and 112.5% year-on-year respectively.
Qiu Zumeng, director of the Transportation Bureau of Fangchenggang City, said that the current projects such as the Fangdong Railway and the Qisha Electrified Railway will help Fangchenggang become a port-type and land-based border port-type national logistics hub city.
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