New high-speed railway under construction to boost delta’s integration

2022-12-01 15:33:00

Jiangsu Province started construction of the Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo High-speed Railway on November 30.

With 10 railway stations and a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the line will be 300.952 kilometers long in total, including the Jiangsu section of 135.039 kilometers and the rest in the neighboring Zhejiang Province.

Design sketch of Suzhou South Railway Station

The section under construction now is about 96.5 kilometers long with four stations- Zhangjiagang, Changshu West, Suzhou North and Suzhou South. After the completion of the project, it will be connected with the Yancheng-Nantong, Beijing-Shanghai, Shanghai-Kunming and Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou high-speed railways already in operation and several new railways also under construction, such as the line linking Jinhua and Ningbo.

The new railway will completely change the current transport landscape in the Yangtze River Delta region, which has lacked a south-north fast track for a long time. It will shorten the travel time among core cities in the delta and improve the transport network for the region’s integrated high-quality development.