Jining Datong Yuanping railway is about to be built

On January 6, the reporter learned from Shuozhou railway and aviation affairs center that recently, the national development and Reform Commission officially issued a document approving the construction of Jining Datong Yuanping Railway (hereinafter referred to as jidayuan high-speed railway). The total investment of the project is about 33.93 billion yuan. It is jointly constructed by China National Railway Group Co., Ltd., Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Shanxi Province. The construction period is 4 and a half years, the design speed is 250 km / h, and further speed up conditions are reserved for infrastructure. The long-term annual transmission capacity is 30 million people / year in one direction. The line starts from Hohhot to Wulanchabu station of Zhangjiakou high-speed railway, passes through Wulanchabu city of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Datong City, Shuozhou City and Xinzhou City of Shanxi Province, and connects Datong to fanjiazhuang railway station of Xi'an high-speed railway. The new line is about 269.6km long, with 8 stations, including Wulanchabu and Datong South station. The construction of

Jiyuan high-speed railway has a significant positive effect on further improving the framework of Shanxi railway network and high-speed railway network, building a large channel for Shanxi's opening up to the outside world, and promoting the three tourism sectors of "the Yellow River, the great wall and Taihang". At the same time, the construction of the railway will also accelerate the flow of resource elements in our province, which is of great significance to the integration of our province into Beijing Tianjin Hebei region and the convergence and integration of people flow, logistics, capital flow and information flow with Inner Mongolia region.

it is understood that in February 2016, the provincial government decided to start the construction of Datong Yuanping high speed railway (hereinafter referred to as Dayuan high speed railway), but due to many factors such as policy adjustment, Dayuan high speed railway project was put on hold. In December 2018, the provincial Party committee and the provincial government repeatedly negotiated with China Railway Corporation to merge Dayuan high speed railway and jidayuan high speed railway into one project, which was approved by the national development and Reform Commission and led by China Railway Corporation.