On September 17, 2021, the Guangxi section of the Shan-Hezhou Highway project started bidding. The project is located in Lianshan County, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province and Babu District, Hezhou City, Guangxi Province. The Erguang Expressway is about 6.5 kilometers long. The recommended route plan for the Guangxi section starts at the boundary between Zhangmuchong and Lingbei Natural Village, Shadong Village, Nanxiang Town, Babu District, 1.5 kilometers west of Chenwu Village, Futang Town, Lianshan, Guangdong. It passes through Nanxiang Town in Babu District, Huangdong Yao Township, and Liantang Town, and the destination is near Toutang to the north of Hejie Town, and it is connected to G78 Guanghe Expressway. The main line of the Guangxi section is about 47.477 kilometers long. It adopts the standard construction of two-way four-lane expressway. The design speed is 100km/h and the roadbed width is 26.0 meters. The Nanxiang and Hejie North exits are set up on the whole line. To connect, the terminal is connected with Hezhou South Hub Interchange and G78 Guanghe Expressway. This project has 3 interchanges, 2 service areas, 2 ramp toll stations, and 1 main line toll station. The project will simultaneously construct 5.99 kilometers of Nanxiang first-level road connecting line, with a total estimated investment of 8.04976 billion yuan. The project is scheduled to start construction in December 2021, and it is planned to adopt the BOT model to form a project company by the bid-winning project investor to franchise the project.

The Guangxi section of Lianshan-Hezhou Highway was determined by public bidding in November 2018 to determine the statutory winning bidder as Jiangsu Zhongnan Construction Industry Group Co., Ltd. In January 2019, upon the application of the statutory winning bidder, Hezhou Transportation Bureau agreed to introduce third-party investment Qiangrong Holding Group Co., Ltd. participated in the construction of the project. In the follow-up period, the project investor, third-party investor, and project company failed to implement the project construction funds, which caused the project to lag behind. "Notice on the cancellation of the "Lianshan-Hezhou Highway (Guangxi Section) Project Investment Agreement" and the "Lianshan-Hezhou Highway (Guangxi Section) Project Investment Agreement" Supplementary Agreement" on July 16, 2016 To Hezhou Highway (Guangxi Section) Project Concession Agreement>", in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations, the cancellation of the relevant agreement will take effect from the date of the notice. At present, the tenderee is re-bidding the project investor to be legally compliant.

The Guangxi section of Lianshan-Hezhou Highway belongs to the local expressway network planning project in Guangxi. The tenderee actively seeks for policies from higher-level departments and clarifies that this project can be supported by referring to the relevant policies of the autonomous region’s counties and counties. At present, 400 million yuan of policy subsidy has been applied for (approximately 5% of the total investment of the project estimate). The concession period is divided into two stages: the construction period and the charging operation period. The construction period is tentatively set at 3 years (subject to the construction period approved by the competent government authority), starting from the date of signing the concession agreement of this project to the date of completion ; Operation period (including charging period): from the date of handover to the date of project handover, the charging period is the starting charging time determined in the project’s charging permit to the date of project handover, and the bidding period for the winning bidder The charging period shall not exceed 30 years (or the charging period extended with the approval of the People’s Government of the Autonomous Region), and the shortest shall not be less than 25 years.

The bidding documents for this project are free to download online. Potential bidders who meet the requirements and are interested in participating in project bidding, please log on to the website of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Public Resources Trading Center (URL: http ://gxggzy.gxzf.gov.cn/), according to the procedures stipulated on the website of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Public Resource Exchange Center to handle the free download of bidding documents.

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The deadline for submission of bid documents (the deadline for bidding, the same below) is 10:00 on November 25, 2021. The bidder shall submit the bid documents and the bid bond bank guarantee letter (such as Yes) Submit to the designated bid opening room of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Public Resources Trading Center (Address: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Public Resources Trading Center, 4th Floor, Autonomous Region Government Service Center, No. 6, Yibin Road, Nanning City, Guangxi), and the specific hall number will be announced on the electronic display on the day of bid opening Prevail. Editor/Xing Wentao