Longest high-speed railway tunnel in east China completed

(ECNS)--An 18.23-km high-speed railway tunnel in east China's Zhejiang Province was bored through on Monday.

Dongming Tunnel is said to be the longest high-speed railway tunnel in east China.

The railway will link the cities of Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Taizhou, all in Zhejiang Province.

With a total length of 271 km and a designed speed of 350 km/h, the railway was among the first batch of public-private partnership pilot projects in China.