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New Track Laid to Upgrade China's 100-year-old Railway

Source:Xinhua Published:2019-06-13 11:27

Workers at the construction site of theBeijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway in Beijing,June 12, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

BEIJING - With the last steel rail piece laid Wednesday in a tunnel underground the Tsinghua University in Beijing, the track of the whole length of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-Speed Railway has been built.

Workers at the construction site of theBeijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway in Beijing,June 12, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

The original railway linking the two cities, known as China's first independently designed and built railway, was put into operation in 1909.

Workers at the construction site of theBeijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway in Beijing,June 12, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

With a designed speed of 350 km per hour, the 174-kilometer-long new track will shorten the travel time between the national capital and the city in neighboring Hebei province to one hour, facilitating the inter-city traffic, crucial for their co-host of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Editor:Zhao Xichen