The Lanzhou−Xinjiang railway or Lanxin railway ( simplified Chinese : 兰新铁路 ; traditional Chinese : 蘭新鐵路 ; pinyin : Lánxīn Tiělù ), is the longest railway in Northwestern China . It runs 1904 kilometres (1,183 miles) from Lanzhou , Gansu , through the Hexi Corridor , to Ürümqi , in Xinjiang . It was Xinjiang's only rail link with the rest of China until the opening of the Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway in December 2014. The railway follows the path of the ancient Silk Road .
16-768: The Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway, often abbreviated as the Lanxin line, is the longest railway built by the People's Republic of China. It was built by the China Railway Engineering Corporation . Construction of the initial stage (to Ürümqi) started in 1952, completed in 1962 and opened in 1966. The extension to the Kazakhstan border was built in the late 1980s, linkup with the Kazakhstan Railroads achieved on September 12, 1990. After
32-479: A limited company was incorporated ( China Railway Group Limited ), CRECG transferred most of their assets to the subsidiary. In 2008, the subsidiary became a publicly traded company which floats in Shanghai and Hong Kong Stock Exchange . China Railway Group Limited China Railway Group Limited , known as CREC (the acronym of its predecessor and parent company China Railway Engineering Corporation ),
48-669: A 471 km high speed railway line through the agriculture belt. This company appeared to break new ground in the European Union in 2009 when the COVEC subsidiary along with two Chinese partners were awarded the tender to construct two parts of the A2 highway in Poland. The project began well in the design and preparation stages with COVEC demonstrating "technical acumen" but work ran aground at later stages because of mismanagement within
64-535: A tight regulatory framework, ending in failure for COVEC and replacement by other contractors. In 2016, the group subsidiary China Railway Engineering Equipment Group supplied the first commercial rectangular tunnel boring machine , used for an underpass of Singapore 's Thomson–East Coast MRT line . The works of a CREC subsidiary active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are the focal point of
80-424: Is a Chinese construction company which floats in Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges . The major shareholder of the company is the state-owned China Railway Engineering Corporation (CRECG). By revenue, CREC is the largest construction company in the world in the 2015 Engineering News-Record "Top 225 Global Contractors". In 2016, CRECG ranks in the 57th place among Fortune Global 500 Enterprises and
96-399: Is connected to Kazakhstan's Dostyk station. The railway also has a southern branch, which splits off the main line near Turpan (east of Ürümqi), and runs west to Kashgar at the westernmost tip of the country. It was completed in 1999. Xinjiang coal is one of the main types of freight shipped along the railway. In 2010, the railway is expected to ship 30 million tons of it, and by 2012,
112-602: The Hexi Corridor , where it passes through Gansu cities Wuwei , Jinchang , Zhangye , Jiuquan and Jiayuguan , en route to Xinjiang. Once in Xinjiang, the railway passes through Hami , Shanshan , Turpan and Dabancheng , before reaching Ürümqi in central Xinjiang. The Lanxin railway is sometimes categorized to include the Northern Xinjiang railway , which continues west from Ürümqi to Alashankou , on
128-622: The Shanghai and Hong Kong respectively. The IPO price of A share ranged from 4 to 4.8 Chinese yuan while that of H share ranged from 5.03 to 5.78 Hong Kong dollars . CREC joined the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index from 10 March 2008. In support of a cross country railway building boom in Venezuela, CREC began construction in 2009 of the Anaco-Tinaco railroad, an 800 million USD project to building
144-714: The 7th place among Top 500 Chinese Enterprises. CREC holds a large share of the Chinese construction market and participates in many large-scale infrastructure projects overseas (especially in countries in the Southeast Asia and Africa ). In addition to the core business of construction, the company does business in surveying and designing , installation, manufacturing , R&D , technical consulting , capital management, as well as international economic and trade activities. In November 2007, CREC announced that it would be listing A shares and H shares on
160-654: The General Bureau was a government agency for many railway construction as well as highway bridge. A subsidiary of the General Bureau, The Major Bridge Engineering Bureau, now China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group [ zh ] was said to construct over 1,000 bridges from 1953 to 2009. In 1989, the Ministry of Railways decided to form China Railway Engineering Corporation ( Chinese : 中国铁路工程总公司 ; CRECG) as well as fellow competitor China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCCG) as subsidiaries. CRECG
176-938: The Kazakhstan border. The distance from Alashankou to Lanzhou is 2360 km. Beyond Alashankou, the railway links up with the Turkestan–Siberia railway of Central Asia and eventually reaches Rotterdam . 陈官营 - 西固城 - 坡底下 - 河口南 Lanzhou–Qinghai railway 大路 - 新屯川 - 华家山 - 龙泉寺 - 马家坪 永登 - 中堡 - 屯沟湾 - 富强堡 - 天祝 石门河 - 安家河 - 打柴沟 - 深沟 - 岔西滩 金强河 - 乌鞘岭 - 青河 - 安远镇 - 沙沟台 龙沟 - 柳家台 - 十八里堡 - 古浪 - 小桥堡 双塔 - 黄羊镇 - 头坝河 北河 - 槐安 - 截河坝 - 青山堡 - 宗家庄 东大山 - 玉石 - 芨岭 - 尖山 - 大青田口 马莲井 - 东明 - 山丹 - 东乐 - 西屯 - 太平堡 乌江堡 - 平原堡 - 临泽 - 新华庄 - 高台 梧桐泉 - 许三湾 - 屯升 丰乐滩 - 上河清 - 金佛寺 - 红山堡 Jiuquan–Ejin railway 大草滩 - 黑山湖 - 玉门 - 新民堡 - 鄯马河 腰泉子 - 五华山 玉门镇 - 军垦 疏勒河 - 河东 - 桥湾 - 柳沟 Dunhuang Railway - 安北 金泉 - 石板墩 - 峡东 - 峡口 The railway's northern branch extends 477 kilometres from Ürümqi to Alataw Pass (its westernmost point), where China's Alashankou railway station
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#1732772915316192-521: The amount is anticipated to rise to 50 million tons. A new high-speed passenger rail line from Lanzhou to Xinjiang opened in December 2014. The line is mostly parallel to the existing Lanxin railway, with the exception of also serving Xining , Qinghai rather than staying entirely within Gansu province on the way to Xinjiang. The estimated cost was 143.5 billion yuan . Since the completion of this route,
208-427: The company could be traced back to 1950 which two bureaus of the Ministry of Railways were formed ( Chinese : 工程总局 ; lit. 'construction bureau' and Chinese : 设计总局 ; lit. 'design bureau'). In 1958, the design bureau and the construction bureau were merged to form the General Bureau of Capital Construction of the Ministry of Railways ( Chinese : 铁道部基本建设总局 ). From 1950 to 1990,
224-516: The completion of the 20 km Wushaoling Tunnel in 2006, the railway from Lanzhou to Ürümqi is all double-tracked. The Lanxin railway's eastern terminus is Lanzhou railway station . Lanzhou is a railway junction city in eastern Gansu Province, where the Lanzhou–Qinghai , Baotou–Lanzhou and Longhai Railways converge. From Lanzhou, the line heads west, across the Yellow River , into
240-545: The older Lanxin railway is used mostly for freight. There is also a planned railway connecting Golmud and Korla, to be an alternative railway corridor to Xinjiang. China Railway Engineering Corporation The China Railway Engineering Corporation ( CRECG ) is a state-owned holding company of China, which is under the supervision of the State Council . The company is the major shareholder of China Railway Group Limited (CREC), its subsidiary. The history of
256-629: Was formally registered on 7 March 1990. In 2000, they were transferred from the ministry to "Central Large Enterprise Work Commission" of the Chinese Communist Party . In 2003, they were under supervision of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) , a commission of the State Council . Since then, they became competitors despite both being state-owned. Numbers of former subsidiary of CRECG were now belongs to CRCCG, such as China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group [ zh ] . In 2007,
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