Qinhuangdao-Shenyang Railway Line, China's First Passenger Dedicated High-speed Line, Opens to Traffic on Oct 12, 2003

A train operates on the Qinhuangdao-Shenyang Railway Line. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

Qinhuangdao-Shenyang Railway Line, China's first passenger dedicated high-speed line, opens to traffic on Oct 12, 2003

The Qinhuangdao-Shenyang Railway Line, the first high-speed railway dedicated to passenger transport, opened to traffic on Oct 12, 2003.

Contracted by China Railway Group Limited and China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, the 404.6-kilometer line connects Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province and Shenyang, Liaoning Province without any stop.

A total of 30 grand bridges about 42,000 meters in length and 170 large and medium-sized bridges were built for the line. Among them the Yueya River Grand Bridge near Goubangzi town in Liaoning Province is 10.26 kilometers long, the longest in China.

Travel time from Qinhuangdao to Shenyang was shortened to four and a half hours after the line opened.

World's first one-tower live double-circuit UHV transmission line succeeds on Oct 12, 2015

The charged replacement of the wire jumper tension insulator strings of the No. 411 iron tower of the 1,000kV Huainan-Shanghai ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission line's No.1 loop was completed on Oct 12, 2015.

The transmission line is 660 kilometers in length and the first one-tower double-circuit AC UHV transmission line in the world. A backbone line in China's UHV network, it is an artery of the electricity transmission project from Anhui Province to eastern China.

The replacement was the first of its kind in the world and a guarantee of the future safe operation of the entire grid in eastern China.

(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)