On October 21, 2022, the Comprehensive Office of Railway and Airport Construction of Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission replied to netizens' comments on railway planning and construction in Sichuan Province: Through active efforts, the preliminary designs of the Chengdu-Dawan Railway, the Ankang to Chongqing section of the West-Chongqing high-speed railway, and the Chengdu-Chongqing Central high-speed railway have been approved. At present, the Miansuiinner Railway, Nanchong to Guang 'an Railway, Gongxian to Xuyong Railway and other projects in Sichuan Province have been included in the Chengdu-Chongqing Area Two-Level Economic Circle and Multi-level Rail Transit Planning. Next, we will organize relevant units to carry out the preliminary work of the project in time. The national 14th Five-Year Railway Development Plan you mentioned has not been officially published yet, and the Mid - and long-term Railway Network Plan is still i the process of compilation.

It is understood that from October 13 to 14, 2022, Deng Chao, deputy director of the provincial railway airport Office and deputy director of the provincial development and Reform Commission, investigated the construction and construction of Chengdawan high-speed railway, and held the provincial key railway project construction promotion meeting in Dazhou.

Conference pointed out that the current, when the battle in the fourth quarter, gets up and down in sichuan province one hundred days, try my best to spell economic development, construction, to grasp, ChengDa high-speed comprehensive construction, west chongqing high-speed preliminary design approved, chengdu-chongqing high-speed rail of the midline preliminary design is approved, a project advance will the key railway project construction, It is a concrete action to implement important arrangements made by the provincial Party Committee and government. It is also a mobilization and arrangement for the construction of high-speed railways along the Chengdawan, West-Chongqing and Chengdu-Chongqing central lines, and a push to accelerate the implementation of key railway projects, thus making positive contributions to the steady growth of investment.

With the joint efforts of Sichuan Province, Chongqing Municipality and China Railway Group, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the feasibility study report of Chengdu-Chongqing Central Line high-speed Railway project in August 2021. In September of the same year, Sichuan and Chongqing provinces and cities jointly held the launch activity of Chengdu-Chongqing Central Line high-speed railway construction with China Railway Group. The preliminary design review was completed in mid-August 2022, and the line proposal is now stable.

Chengdu-chongqing Central high-speed railway

The Chengdu-Chongqing Central high-speed railway is an important part of the national eight vertical and eight horizontal high-speed railway main channel along the river. The construction period is five years, the project is 292 kilometers long, and the total investment is 73.3 billion yuan. The line starts from Chongqing North Railway Station, Chongqing hub, and crosses Jialing River to the west. It has successively set up Science City Station, Tongliang Station, Dazu Stone carving Station, Anyue Station, Lezhi Station, and Jianzhou Station, and finally leads to Chengdu Railway Station, Chengdu hub. The design speed of the line is 350 km/h, among which Dazu Stone carving Station and Jianzhou Station (the length of the line is 150 km, including 18.4 km in Chongqing) are determined as the test interval for further speed increase, and conditions are reserved for further speed increase of the line (to 400 km/h) in the future.

In the next step, Chengyu will strongly promote the preliminary work of the project and make all preparations before the commencement of construction, and strive to start the land expropriation and demolition work before the end of October, so as to get ready for the construction of the whole line within this year. Editor/He Yuting