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China enhances rail links with Central Asia and Europe
BEIJING: A new railway line that will strengthen China’s rail link to central Asia and Europe has become operational on Sunday. The new lineconnects Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, to Jinghe in the region. Jinghe is already linked to two land ports, Horgos and Alataw Pass, on the China-Kazakhstan border. This is the second rail link connecting Urumqi to Jinghe, which will result in improved transportation of Chinese goods to central Asia and past of Europe through Kazakhstan.
The second line was made possible after the rail authorities succeeded in building a difficult 13.6-km-long tunnel running across northern Tianshan Mount Range last year. It took four years to complete the tunnel, which links up Jinghe, Yining and Korgas in Xinjiang.
The new line, called Second Urumqi-Jinghe Line, runs 381.5 kms and has a designed transportation capacity of 67.1 million tones. The capacity will grow up to 91.7 million tonnes in the future, railway authorities said. The track has been designed to handle train speed of 120 km per hour.
The new line has been build at a cost of 2.77 billion yuan ($408 million), the Xinjiang Railway Bureau said. It will enhance China's capacity to transport goods to Kazakhstan and further into other countries in central Asia and Europe, it said in a statement.
There are two other rail lines link Jinghe to Horgos and Alataw Pass on China’s border with Kazakhstan border.
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