Meizhou-Longchuan high-speed railway completes girder erection construction

With a 24.6-meter-long box　girder falling steadily into place on the bridge on Wednesday, the erection task of all box girders along the Meizhou-Longchuan high-speed railway　was officially completed. 　

The high-speed railway will be 94　kilometers long when completed.　The railway starts from Meizhou West Railway Station and passes through Meixian County, Xingning City, Wuhua County in Meizhou and Longchuan County in Heyuan before terminating at Longchuan West Station, an interchange station with the Ganzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway. 　

The railway is　the first railway project independently invested and constructed by south China's　Guangdong Province　with　a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. The trip from Meizhou to Guangzhou and Shenzhen will be shortened from 6 hours to 1.5 hours　when the railway goes into operation in June 2024. 　 Known as the "Capital of Hakka in the World," Meizhou is home to millions of Hakka people, whose ancestors were believed to have moved from central China to the south centuries ago.