Construction on China's second passenger-only inter-city
railroad will start this month.
The line will run between Lushan, a popular summer resort in
Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi Province, and provincial capital
Nanchang, where it will join the existing Beijing-Kowloon Railway,
a north-south trunk route.
The railway is scheduled to be completed and in service in
2009.
The first passenger-only inter-city railway runs between Beijing
and Tianjin and is scheduled to be completed in 2008.
The Jiujiang-Nanchang Railway will be 131.27 km long, of which
96.91 km will be new, according to the provincial development and
reform commission.
It will be a double-track road capable of carrying trains
traveling at up to 200 km per hour, and will cost 6 billion yuan,
which will be equally shared by Jiangxi Provincial Government and
the Ministry of Railways.
It will shorten the travel time from Jiujiang, on the southern
side of the Yangtze River, to Nanchang from current 90 minutes to
40 minutes.
(Xinhua News Agency May 12, 2007)