A 76-kilometer-long high-speed railway, linking two key prefecture-level cities in Anhui Province in East China, has witnessed marked progress when box girders on a railway bridge were mostly erected in Dangtu County by August 28, 2023.
Builders from China Railway No.4 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (CREC4) have successfully erected box girders for the approach bridge to the Mid-river Islet in Dangtu, which is administered by Maanshan City.
The Chaohu-Maanshan HSR, starting its construction on October 28, 2019, is scheduled to start operation in 2026. Maanshan, a prefecture-level city sitting on both banks of the Yangtze, the country’s longest river, borders the provincial capital of Hefei on the west, while Chaohu is a county-level city under Hefei.
Using bridge trains, builders from CREC4 Eighth Engineering Co., Ltd erected 214 pieces of 40.7-meter-long box girders on the approach bridge to to the Mid-river Islet. The remaining six such box girders will be erected in December by using beam lifting machines.
Starting from Chaohu East Railway Station, the Chaohu-Maanshan HSR will extend eastward through Hanshan County, Hexian County, Zhengpu Port New Area, Dangtu County, Maanshan’s Economic Development Zone, Yushan District and Huashan District, before ending at Maanshan East Station. With a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour for the trains, the HSR will have five stations, including Chaohu East (existing), Hanshan, Zhengpu Port, Maanshan South and Maanshan East (existing).
Upon operational, the HSR will add a new and fast link to both sides of the Yangtze River, marking great significance in connecting the Hefei metropolitan area and the Nanjing metropolitan area in neighboring Jiangsu Province, and boosting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region as well as the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.