On the morning of September 28, 2021, Guangzhou City held the start of the Guangzhou East-Huadu-Tiangui Intercity Railway Project at the construction site of the Airport Depot on Fanghua Road, Baiyun District.

Guanghua Intercity Project

The Guangzhou East-Huadu-Tiangui Intercity Railway line starts at Guangzhou East Station of Guangzhou Metro Line 18, passes through Jingxi Road, Baiyun Dongping, and Baiyun City Center to the north, connects Fangshi, Fenghuang South Road, Ma'anshan Park, and ends at Huadu At Duhuacheng Street Station, 7 new stations will be built with a line length of 39.6 kilometers and a design speed of 160 kilometers per hour. The construction period is planned to be 5 years and 4 months, and strive to be completed and opened by the end of 2026.

It is reported that Guanghua Intercity, as a recent implementation project of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Intercity Railway Construction Plan", is the first construction project of the Guangzhou Metropolitan Area Intercity Railway led by Guangzhou City, and the first Dawan City to start construction in the second half of the year. District intercity railway project. In the future, after the completion of the Guanghua Intercity Project, it will be connected to Metro Line 18 for operation. In the future, it is planned to further extend north-south and form an important north-south backbone rail express line in the Guangzhou metropolitan area.

Operation of the first pass of Metro Line 18

Also on September 28, the first pass of Metro Line 18 came into operation!

It is understood that the first section of Line 18 starts at Nansha Wanqing Station, passes through Hengli, Panyu Square, and Nancun Wanbo to the north, connects Shaxi, Longtan, and Modiesha, and ends at Tianhe Xiancun Station, with a total length of 58.3 kilometers. The project started in 2018, and it only took 3 years and 10 months to realize the completion, acceptance and opening of the first section, demonstrating the new speed of Guangzhou's subway construction.

The opening of the first section of Line 18 will achieve the time and space goal of 30 minutes from the Nansha sub-center to the central city of Guangzhou. Residents along the Nansha, Panyu and other lines will have an additional convenient passage to the Zhujiang New City. After the opening of the line, the total operating mileage of the Guangzhou Metro will reach 589.4 kilometers, and the number of stations will increase to 290.

Guangzhou Metro Line 18 is really double happiness! Not only the opening of the first section (Wanqingsha-Xiancun), but also the northern extension section (Guangzhou East-Huadu Tiangui) upgraded to an intercity railway broke ground. Opened and then started, the fastest subway hit Guangzhou speed.

In the future, the line will continue to develop, extending from north to south, becoming a longitudinal link of the Greater Bay Area connecting Qingyuan in the north and Zhuhai in the south. The total mileage exceeds 180 kilometers. This will allow a series of cities to rise quickly and build a city centered on Guangzhou and radiate surrounding cities. The 1-hour track economy and life commuting circle. Editor/He Yuting