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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 28 (Xinhua) — A new tunnel was completed in Suifenhe City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, a city on the Sino-Russian border, on Wednesday morning as part of a project to improve the quality and upgrade the Suifenhe-to-border section of the Harbin-Suifenhe Railway, CCTV reported.
The Harbin-Suifenhe Railway, with a history of 100 years, is Heilongjiang Province’s largest railway transport corridor to Russia, and an important part of the “eastern corridor” of China-Europe rail freight routes. Since the beginning of this year, Suifenhe border crossing officials have handled a total of 3.581 million tons of import and export cargo, up 9 percent from the previous year. It has handled 149 China-Europe freight trains, carrying 6,942 standard containers of cargo.
In order to increase the capacity of Suifenhe checkpoint, the Harbin branch of China Railways Corporation launched a project to reconstruct the section from Suifenhe to the state border, which includes the construction of a tunnel, three bridges and six roadbeds. In particular, the total length of the Suifenhe tunnel will be 602 m, the distance from its exit to the border in a straight line is less than 400 m. It will be able to meet the needs of trains with different track gauges.
The project is expected to be completed within a year. Once operational, the speed of trains on this section will increase from 55 km to 120 km, which will further expand the possibilities of cross-border transportation and improve the safety of railway traffic.