Train 18001, China’s first 10,000-ton heavy-haul train, departed the Huanghua South Railway Station of the Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway under China Energy, on December 26, 2020, marking that the entire Huanghua-Dajiawa Railway, a new passage for energy transportation in areas around the Bohai Sea, began operation.
Before the opening ceremony, China Energy Chairman Wang Xiangxi and CEO Liu Guoyue visited the control room of the Huanghua South Railway Station to inspect the station’s transportation organization and management work and the trial operation of China Energy’s new railway scheduling system. Wang spoke highly of the various achievements made by the Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway and the Huanghua South Railway Station. He stressed that the railway should uphold the idea of safe development, put life and safety first, eradicate the risk of accidents from the source, and continue maintaining its good records in production safety. He also called for deepening scientific understanding of the development trends of the railway transportation market, strengthening the integrated advantages of China Energy’s railway network, and accelerating the shift in transport structure from “highways to railways.” Moreover, Wang noted that the railway needs to vigorously push forward research of key technologies, promote high-quality development of heavy-haul railways through technological innovation, and give full play to the important role of the transport sector in realizing the targets to peak carbon emissions and achieve carbon neutrality as green, low-carbon development has become a practical strategy of China Energy.
The 216.8-kilometer Huanghua-Dajiawa Railway starts from the Huanghua South Railway Station, and has a total of 10 stations. As a national Class-I single-track electric heavy-haul railway, it has set a near-term cargo transportation objective of 31.97 million tons per year and a long-term cargo transportation objective of 47.52 million tons per year. The Huanghua-Dajiawa Railway is a project in China’s Mid- and Long-term Railway Network Plan as well as an integral part of the railway passage in the Bohai Bay region. After its completion, it would form the second largest rail artery network with a total length of 880 kilometers for the West-to-East Coal Transmission project, together with the Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway and the Huanghua-Wanjia Railway, so as to directly connect Hebei, Shandong and Tianjin with China Energy’s energy bases in central and western regions and construct a new inverse transport passage to ensure safe, stable energy supply for areas around the Bohai Sea.
