Box girder erection for a key bridge across another railway of the Baotou-Yinchuan high-speed railway in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was recently completed.
A view of the box girder erection site in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Contracted by Shanghai Civil Engineering Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited, the bridge is 2,526.8 meters long and has a total of 78 prefabricated box girders.
As it is built over another operating railway, careful girder erection plans had to be made to ensure safe, high-quality and on-schedule engineering.
A close-up view of the girder erection equipment used to cross another railway by the Baotou-Yinchuan high-speed railway [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The Baotou-Yinchuan high-speed railway is a key part of the Beijing-Lanzhou railway, one of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railways. It is a traffic and economic artery linking Northwest, Northeast and North China and one of the 102 major projects of the national 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25).
Once operational, the railway is expected to support China's strategies like the western development drive, the ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin and high-quality development.
(Executive editor: Xie Yunxiao)
