Overseas contractors in China's first high speed rail opened Turkey's Prime Minister tried by the first bus | HSR |-China _ news

Beijing times connected by Chinese enterprises to participate in the construction of Turkey's capital Ankara and the biggest city Istanbul, the successful implementation of the second phase of high speed railway to traffic. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other senior officials attended the opening ceremony and tried to take the first bullet trains.

The same day, the Chinese Embassy in Turkey Yuhong Yang and Turkmen officials, accompanied by the Ambassador, Ankara, Erdogan from the station to board trains bound for Istanbul. In the car, he listened to railway construction, paid for HSR smooth opening to Chinese officials expressed gratitude for the hard work of Chinese enterprises in the process of building showing expressed admiration for the professionalism, and that it wants to take this opportunity to further deepen cooperation in various fields between the two countries.

533 km Ankara-Istanbul high speed railway. In 2005, the China railway construction Corporation and the China machinery import and export (Group) limited group successfully won the second period lead Pack consisting of main roads, successful road length of 158 km, contract amount of us $ 1.27 billion, design speed of 250 kilometers.

It was in foreign countries by Chinese organization contract to implement the first electrified railway project, to promote high-speed rail in China "go" is of great strategic significance. (Xinhuanet)

(Original title: China overseas building contractors first high railway vehicles)

(Edit: SN091)
July 27, 2014, at 02:10 Beijing times