Xi’an-Chengdu high-speed railway wins global award


Making travel easy: The high-speed Xi’an-Chengdu railway helps reduce the travel time between the cities to three hours from 16 hours. — China Daily/ANN

CHENGDU: A high-speed railway in western China has won the award of FIDIC Outstanding Project of the Year, its design company said.

The 658km-long railway that links Xi’an, the capital city of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, and Chengdu city, the capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, was opened to traffic in 2017.

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