The Shenzhen Railway, which once amazed the world with its speed in Shenzhen, is now extending this experience southward along the track. In the humid and hot monsoon of the Red River Delta, the figures of Chinese engineers shuttle through the streets and alleys of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, using precise drawings instead of steel and cement to quietly write a new paradigm for infrastructure development going global.

Shenzhen Railway signs new Vietnam contract again

On August 4, 2026, according to the official official account of Shenzhen Metro, Shenzhen Municipal Academy of Shenzhen Railway Group, together with Vietnam Construction, Industrial Construction Consulting and Vietnam IDECO Co., Ltd., formed a multinational cooperation consortium, officially signed a contract with Ho Chi Minh City Railway Management Committee, and won the feasibility study and FEED design consulting project of Ho Chi Minh City Railway Tulongmu to Ho Chi Minh City Section. Among them, Shenzhen Municipal Institute is responsible for the core design consulting work of the project, with a corresponding contract amount of approximately 45 million yuan. This is the third service contract won by Shenzhen Metro in the Vietnamese market, marking the further extension of the company's overseas business from traditional EPC engineering to high-end core design consulting fields, laying a solid foundation for further deepening the Southeast Asian rail transit market and improving overseas industrial layout.

Multiple implementation points for the Shenzhen Metro Yue project

According to publicly available information, Shenzhen Metro has been consistently implementing key projects in the Vietnamese rail transit market in recent years, with a steadily accelerating pace of layout. In December 2025, led by Pacific Construction Group, a consortium formed by Shenzhen Municipal Design and Research Institute, Shenzhen Metro International Investment Consulting, and Shenzhen Building Materials Trading Group under Shenzhen Railway successfully won the bid for the Hanoi Metro Line 5 project in Vietnam, with a bid amount equivalent to approximately RMB 886 million. The team undertakes the core construction process of the project, covering key areas throughout the entire chain such as planning and design, equipment technical services, joint debugging and testing, and operational training. In May 2026, Shenzhen Railway Group once again made efforts and formed a consortium with Vietnam Transportation Investment and Construction Consulting Co., Ltd. to win the bid for the feasibility study consulting project of the extension of Hanoi Metro Line 2A, with a separate bid amount of 32 million RMB.

Project Overview and Suitie Layout

The Ho Chi Minh City Railway to Ho Chi Minh City section signed this time is a cross city rail transit mainline that connects Ho Chi Minh City, Shun An City, and To Long Mu City. The total length of the line is 35.1 kilometers, including 19.3 kilometers of elevated section and 15.8 kilometers of underground section. The entire line is planned to have 24 stations, 12 elevated stations, and 12 underground stations. In the Vietnamese rail transit market, Guangzhou Metro has also performed outstandingly and continued to deepen its cultivation. Keywords: Shenzhen Metro, Vietnam Rail Transit, Southeast Asia, China Infrastructure

In September 2025, Guangzhou Metro Design Institute led a consortium to win the feasibility study, front-end engineering design, and procurement services project for the adjustment of Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 2, with a total contract amount of 175.4 billion Vietnamese dong, approximately 6.66 million US dollars. In April 2026, Guangzhou Metro formed a consortium with local companies from France and Vietnam to win the bid for the full process engineering consulting project for the Bincheng Canliang section of Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 2, with an amount of approximately 27 million US dollars. In May 2026, it won the bid for the feasibility study project of Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 4 in collaboration with Chinese and foreign enterprises; In July 2026, we once again teamed up with local Vietnamese institutions to win the feasibility study and FEED design project for the first phase of Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 6, with a contract amount of approximately 12 million US dollars, continuing to seize resources for Vietnam's core rail transit projects.Editor/Gong Ziwei