The Dali-Baoshan section of the Dali-Ruili Railway in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, a China-Myanmar international project, is to open soon. It will be the first railway reaching Baoshan.
A view of the Dali-Baoshan railway section in Southwest China's Yunnan Province [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The Dali-Ruili railway is 330 kilometers long and 76.5 percent of it is bridges and tunnels. It will play a key role in improving the layout of China's medium and long-term railway network and development of the western regions.
Construction of the entire railway has been separated into the Dali-Baoshan and Baoshan-Ruili sections.
The Dali-Baoshan section is about 133 kilometers and has a designed speed of 140 kilometers per hour. It stretches through a geologically active fracture zone, making its engineering difficult. The Dazhushan, Xiuling, Dapoling and Shanyang tunnels, which are over 10-kilometer long respectively, were the most hard-to-build sections of the project.
Operation of the Dali-Baoshan section is expected to change the traffic and transport pattern in southwestern areas of Yunnan and boost regional economic and social development.
What's more, it will make Yunnan a key player in opening-up to Southeast and South Asian countries and promote exchanges and cooperation between them and China.
China Railway Group Limited is responsible for the project.
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
