On December 10, 2020, it was learned from China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co., Ltd. that the full track laying of the Maitreya-Mengzi high-speed railway in Yunnan Province was officially launched, and it is planned to open in 2022.

According to reports, the main line of the Maitreya-Mengzi high-speed railway is 106 kilometers long, with a track length of 211 kilometers, 75 sets of turnouts, and a total of 7 stations on the entire line. The target speed of passenger trains is 250 kilometers per hour. According to the China Railway Third Bureau Group Co., Ltd., which undertakes the construction task of track laying, the main line of Mi-Mongolia high-speed railway adopts the "single sleeper continuous method" to lay the track, which can quickly realize the welding of long rails and the stress relief and locking of the seamless track. Maximize the efficiency of construction.

In the future, after the completion of the Yunnan Maitreya-Mengzi high-speed railway, it will be efficiently connected with the Kunming- Maitreya section of the Nankun Passenger Depot and the China-Vietnam International Corridor Kunming-Hekou Railway. By then, the journey from Kunming to Mengzi will take three and a half hours by car, and it will only take about one and a half hours for the railway journey, which will greatly facilitate the travel of the surrounding people. Editor/He Yuting