Railway Section Starts Operation in Inner MongoliaThe first section of a major coal transport railway began operation Saturday in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.The 72.5 km section is part of the Junggar-Dongsheng Railway Line, which will be 145 km in total when completed. The railway was designed to connect the Junggar Coal Field and the Dongsheng Coal Field. It took two years to complete the first section construction of the railway, costing an investment of 700 million yuan (US$84 million), which was jointly funded by the Ih Ju League Coal Group, local core coal enterprises, and the Inner Mongolia Chuangye Group. The railway will be linked to two other local railways, which are 300 km and 114 km long respectively extending to Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to form a new major coal-shipping railway line from west to east China. When completed, the new line will be used to transport coal for export by the Beiniuchuan Mine at the Dongsheng Coal Field. The mine has 100.6 billion tons reserve of coal, which contains low sulfur and phosphorus and also is low in ash after burning. |
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