Smart tech boosts most beautiful rail By MA CHENGUANG and ZHUANG QIANGE | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-11 09:40 Share CLOSE A CTCE employee signals while 500-meter-long ballastless tracks, part of the Zhangjiajie-Jishou-Huaihua High-speed Railway, are laid over the weekend. The project is supported by smart track-laying facilities, which help in reducing manpower and expediting project work. [Photo by Wu Huaiqiu/For China Daily]
The 246-km Zhangjiajie-Jishou-Huaihua high-speed line to wrap up by year-end
China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group (CTCE), a State-owned construction behemoth, used the country s first intelligent track-laying facilities to lay a pair of 500-meterlong ballast-free track segments on Saturday for a 38.24 billion yuan ($5.92 billion), 246.6-kilometer high-speed railway line.