East China’s Jiangsu province invested 70.4 billion yuan on transportation construction in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%, accounting for 59.8% of the annual plan and setting a historic high.
Jiangsu is scheduled to kick off construction on 40 major transportation projects with 19 getting underway as of the end of June, standing for 47.5% of the total.
The Lianyungang-Yancheng Railway is an important part of China's coastal railway arteries. 11 stations are built along the 234- kilometer rail, including the stations in Ganyu, Xiangshui, Binhai and Sheyang, making it the first time for the four counties to be built with a railway station.
At present, the railway track of the Lianyungang-Yancheng Railway has been paved and passed the static acceptance. Yancheng North Station, originally a freight station, is being transformed to ensure that the people along the line can take the high-speed railway within the year.
Construction is in smooth progress on the coastal railway in southern Jiangsu, the riverside railway on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, the phase I project of the Shanghai-Nantong Railway, the Lianyungang-Xuzhou high-speed railway, the phase II project of the Nanjing-Qidong railway and the railway that connects Qingdao city of Shandong province and Lianyungang city of Jiangsu province.
In the meantime, Jiangsu has stepped up construction on highway, water transport and passenger transport terminals. The 12.5-meter deepwater navigation channel downstream of Nanjing was put into pilot operation in May, enabling 50000-tonnage ocean-going vessels to sail direct into the Nanjing Port over 431 kilometers of watercourse from the estuary.
Jiangsu wrapped up the construction on 17 comprehensive coach terminals in the first half of the year while construction on railway transport terminals is in smooth progress.
(Source: ourjiangsu.com)
