Under the coal sea of the Ordos Plateau, a steel artery is sailing from the blueprint towards the earth. The Dongsheng East to Taigemiao Railway, as a key milestone in the national railway strategy, closely connects the billion ton coal production area with the national road network. With the comprehensive completion of the bidding for the station front project, the two major infrastructure powerhouses of China Railway and China Railway Construction are fully equipped and ready to start construction. This green and low-carbon energy transportation corridor is about to break ground.

Project bidding closed

The list of candidates for winning the bid for 10 sections of the Dongsheng East to Taigemiao Railway Station Front Project has been officially announced. This railway is a second-class single track ten thousand ton electrified railway in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. It is a core project of the national circular railway strategy. After completion, it will form a one billion ton coal transportation channel, connecting the local coal producing areas with the national road network. All sections of the station front project are undertaken by the engineering bureaus under China Railway and China Railway Construction, with the two major state-owned enterprises monopolizing all construction tasks, demonstrating their core advantages in major domestic railway infrastructure. Among them, China Railway won 6 sections and China Railway Construction won 4 sections.

Construction Overview

The route passes through Kangbashu District and Ejin Horo Banner, and can accommodate heavy-duty trains with a capacity of 10000 tons. The project will be constructed in stages, with a total length of 97.61 kilometers for the first phase of the main line and 10.556 kilometers for supporting connecting lines. It will be included in the construction plan of the autonomous region and national key railways. The station front engineering covers the construction of all types of construction, including roadbed, bridges and culverts, tunnels, beam fabrication and installation, and track laying. Each section is constructed by various professional engineering bureaus of China Railway Group. Among them, China Railway Third Bureau and Fourth Bureau each won two sections, while China Railway Twelfth Bureau won the largest bid for the full line beam fabrication and track laying section. The key construction period of the entire line is concentrated in two major sections, with the track laying section having the longest construction period, which is the core key to controlling the project's opening node in 2028-2029.

Energy artery empowers green transformation

As a top coal production base in China, Ordos' railway construction will completely solve the pain points of high cost and high pollution in traditional road transportation, and achieve the improvement of coal transportation quality, cost reduction, and green low-carbon transformation. At present, the preliminary bidding work of the project has been completed, and the construction of the entire line is about to be fully launched. After the completion and opening of the project, it will significantly improve the efficiency of coal transportation from Inner Mongolia, smooth the national energy transmission chain, and provide strong support for regional economic development and national energy security.Editor/Gong Ziwei