Constructors from State builder China Railway No.4 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (CREC4) have finished pouring the first cast-on-site box girder for the whole high-speed railway (HSR) linking Xiongan New Area in North China’s Hebei Province with Shangqiu in Central China’s Henan Province.
CREC4 builders, working for the first subdivision of the No 11 bid for the 552-kilometer HSR, completed the casting on June 25, ushering in a new milestone.
The CREC4 project department conducted a detailed survey and inspection on the concrete raw materials in advance, and followed stringent procedures to ensure the successful pouring of the box girder.
Xiongan New Area, which was established on April 1, 2017 by the central authorities, spans the three counties of Xiongxian, Rongcheng and Anxin in Hebei, and is aimed to relieve Beijing of functions nonessential to its role as the national capital in a bid seek a new development model for densely populated areas. The new area, dubbed “a strategy crucial for a millennium to come,” will help advance the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The Xiongan-Shangqiu section, part of the Beijing-Xiongan-Shangqiu HSR running for 639 kilometers with 18 railway stations, will extend for 552 km with 16 stations allowing trains to run at a designed speed of 350 km per hour.
CREC4’s job, or the No 11 bid for the new HSR, runs for 17.32 km, starting from Taiqian county in Henan’s Puyang and ending at Jining city of Shandong.
It has been learned that the Xiongan-Shangqiu section of Beijing-Xiongan-Shangqiu HSR will also be an important part of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Taiwan HSR included in the country’s “eight verticals and eight horizontals” HSR network. Upon operation, it will connect with the Beijing-Xiongan section, and some other high-speed railways in the country.