Crossing the development of the mountains and mountains to help the development of the reservoir area -Zhengyu High -speed Railway is open to the entire line

Xinhua News Agency, Chongqing, June 20th.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Qingbing

On June 20, when a train came, the people of the Three Gorges Reservoir area in Northeast Yubei ushered in a historic moment. The people in the reservoir bid farewell to the suffering of traffic occlusion.

The Zhengyu high -speed railway is 1068 kilometers in length. After the operation throughout the operation, the fastest from Chongqing to Beijing and Zhengzhou will only take 6 hours, 46 minutes, 4 hours and 23 minutes.

Li Furong, 26, came to Fengjie Station early that day to prepare to take the earliest C6403 train at 8:14 at Fengjie to Chongqing.

"We used to take a car from Fengjie to Chongqing before often need about 8 hours of drive, and now it can be available in less than 2 hours." Li Furong said that she was particularly lucky to witness Feng Jie enter the era of high -speed rail and have the opportunity to sit up from from from the time. The first train issued by Fengjie Station.

"Encountering the Water Bridge, opening the road in Fengshan" is a portrayal of traffic construction in the Three Gorges Reservoir area.

Xiao Qiang, deputy chief engineer of Chongqing Survey and Design Institute of China Railway Second Hospital, said that the mountain valley in the Three Gorges Reservoir District of Northeast China, there are many canyons and rivers, and the terrain is large. Project construction is extremely difficult.

The construction of the Zhengyu high -speed railway was divided into three parts, of which the northern section of Chongqing to Wanzhou was opened on November 28, 2016, and the east to Xiangyang East Section was opened on December 1, 2019. The Zhengyu High -speed Railway Xiangyang East to Wanzhou's northern section started in December 2015. It was 434 kilometers in length. 91 new bridges and 57 tunnels were built. Among them, the proportion of tunnels in the Chongqing section (Wanzhou to Wushan section) is as high as 92%.

Located in the Daning River in Wushan County, the river is turbulent and narrow. It is sandwiched between the dangerous cliffs. The mechanical repair of the bridge cannot be "uphill" and can only be transported by ropeways. The construction materials required by the ropeway can only be transported by manpower.

From April 2017, more than 40 "back husbands" in Wushan County, for more than 20 consecutive months, pick up their backs every day, carrying the materials required by the freight ropeway from the river bank to about 60 floors high mountainside ...

In 2021, the urban group of the Three Gorges Reservoir District in Northeast Yubei realized the regional GDP of 489.515 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%over the previous year. The added value of the tourism industry was 18.989 billion yuan, the growth rate was 14.1%, and the proportion of GDP was 3.9%. With the passenger flow brought by the Zhengyu high -speed rail, the tourism economy in the Three Gorges Reservoir area in Northeast Chongqing will usher in a faster development.

[Editor in charge: Wu Yongling]

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