Type High-speed rail Stations 22 Locale China | Status Operating Line length 709.518 km (441 mi) | |
Opened (Nanning-Baise) December 11, 2015
(Baise-Kunming) December 28, 2016 Operator(s) China Railway High-speed Terminis Kunming South Railway Station, Nanning Railway Station | ||
Nanning–Kunming High-Speed Railway (formerly known as the Yunnan-Guangxi High-Speed Railway) is a high-speed railway in China's Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It connects the Guangxi capital of Nanning with the Yunnan capital city of Kunming. It will have a total length of 715.8 kilometres of electrified double-track railways, built to the Grade 1 standard. Positioned as part of China's "long-term railway network plan", to improve the layout and the development of South-Western China with critical infrastructure. It will be Yunnan Province's first high-speed transport corridor to the sea. With future Pan-Asian railways to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam planned or under construction, this railway will be seen as a crucial link between the economic powerhouse of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and Indochina under the Chinese One Belt-One Road policies.
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History
Route
Construction started on December 27, 2009, with the first phase from Nanning to Baise opening on December 11, 2015. It will see 17 new stations constructed, with three more stations being renovated. Bridges and tunnels account for total length of 500 kilometres. Built with a total investment of nearly 90 billion RMB, it is expected that the construction period will have a duration of six years. Total length of the project is 709.518 km (441 mi), of which 274.83 km (171 mi) will be in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, 432.183 km (269 mi) within Yunnan territory.
Starting at Nanning's Xixiangtang District the railway travels north-west through Long'an County to Baise's Pingguo County, Tiandong County and Tianyang County before reaching Baise urban Youjiang District itself. After this, the second phase of the route will go westward across Youjiang District into Yunnan Province's Funing County, Guangnan County and Qiubei County in Wenshan. Turning north-west again, the line crosses Mile City in Honghe. Now progressing northwards, the line enters Kunming's Shilin Yi Autonomous County before cutting across Yuxi's Chengjiang County before re-entering Kunming through Yiliang County. Chenggong District and terminating in the Guandu District.
Nanning - Baise section
Baise - Kunming section
Stations
Kunming South, Jingkai, Yangzong, Shilin Banqiao, Mile, Xinshao, Hongshiyan, Puzhehei, Zhulin, Guangnan, Bailazhai, Funing, Bo'ai, Yangwei, Baise, Tianyang, Tiandong North, Nahe, Pingguo, Long'an East, Nanning West and Nanning