On November 15, 2020, on the last section of the China-Myanmar International Railway—Dari Railway, with the construction personnel of the China Railway Fifth Bureau erecting a 32-meter-long T-beam on the Fotianzhuang Middle Bridge, which marked The first T-beam of the Dari Railway was successfully erected. After 12 years of difficult construction, it officially entered the online construction stage and took a solid step towards the goal of opening and operating in 2022.

It is reported that the Dali Railway starts at Dali Station and ends at Ruili Station. It has a total length of 330 kilometers and a design speed of 140 kilometers per hour. It is a Class I single-track, electrified railway. Construction of the Darui Railway started in 2008. The entire line crosses the Cangshan, Nushan, and Gaoligong Mountains in western Yunnan Province, and crosses the Nu River, Lancang River, and Xi'er River. The geology and landforms along the line are complex. The bridge-tunnel ratio of the entire line reaches 75%. The bridge-to-tunnel ratio is as high as 86.5%. The Gaoligongshan Tunnel is 34.5 kilometers long and is one of the longest railway mountain tunnels in Asia. The Dalian-Russia Railway crosses the geologically active fault zone and is extremely difficult to construct. It is known as the most difficult railway on earth.

As an important main line of the China-Myanmar railway corridor, the Darifa Railway is an important link between China and the Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor. After it is completed and opened to traffic, it will greatly improve the transportation pattern in western Yunnan, end the history of no trains in western Yunnan’s ethnic minority areas, further highlight the role of the bridgehead of Yunnan’s opening to the outside world, help the implementation of the national one belt and one road initiative, and reshape the ancient southern silk road. brilliant. Editor/He Yuting