CHINA’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved the project to build a new 222.8km high-speed line from Shanghai to Hangzhou, serving a new station at Shanghai East now under construction close to Pudong Airport and the surrounding development zone.
Including Shanghai East, the new line will serve a total of nine stations. New stations will be built at Fengxian, Shanghai Jinshan, Pinghu City and Linping, while capacity will be increased at the existing stations of Situan, Jiaxing South, Tongxiang and Hangzhou West.
The new high-speed line will cost Yuan 67bn ($US 9.35bn) to build. The end-to-end journey time will be 40 minutes, boosting the attractiveness of Pudong Airport for travellers to and from Zhejiang province.
NDRC has also approved the construction of a new line running from the Sichuan - Tibet Railway at Bomi station in Nyingchi prefecture in Tibet to Ranwu, 234.5km to the southeast. The Yuan 22.2bn project includes the construction of seven stations, with five to open at first.
Construction is expected to start next month on the recently-approved Yining - Aksu project in Xinjiang. This single-track electrified line will be 794km long, including 455km of new construction, and is expected to take six years to complete at a cost of Yuan 37.7bn.
Maximum speed will be 160km/h, with some sections limited to 120km/h and 100km/h. There will be 24 stations, including 12 with passing loops.
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