If the railway track laying is completed, it is expected to open in June next year.

If the railway track laying is completed, it is expected to open in June next year.

If the railway track laying is completed, it is expected to be put into operation in June next year, and the world's first railway line around the desert will be officially closed; If the railway is a national key railway construction project, it is expected to be put into operation in June next year if the railway track laying is completed.

If the railway track laying is completed, it is expected to start operation in June next year. On the morning of September 27th, the railway line in Minfeng County, Hotan District, Xinjiang was fully laid, marking the official "closed loop" of the Taklimakan desert railway line. Heruo Railway is a national key railway construction project, with a total length of 825.476 kilometers, connecting Hotan City in southern Xinjiang and Ruoqiang County in Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture. It is expected to be put into operation in June 2022. The completed Waco Railway is connected with the existing Geku Railway, Kakha Railway and South Xinjiang Railway, and surrounds the Taklimakan Desert. And if the railway is completed, it will form a ring railway network around Tarim Basin with the existing South Xinjiang Railway, which is the only ring railway network around the desert in the world.

If the railway is an important part of the convenient passage from southern Xinjiang to the mainland, the completion of the railway will not only improve the local traffic conditions, but also accelerate the pace of economic development and opening up along the line. It also opened up land routes to Central Asia and South Asia for Qinghai, Tibet, Gansu and Sichuan in the west of China, which strongly promoted the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. As a desert railway, Waco Railway has attracted people's attention since its construction. The Waco Railway, with a total length of 825.476 kilometers, has 534.8 kilometers in the desert, forming a circular railway network with the existing South Xinjiang Railway in Tarim Basin, which is also the only circular railway network around the desert in the world. This railway is the most difficult railway around the desert under construction in the world. Since the construction started at the end of 20 18, railway builders have overcome the unfavorable factors such as desert flow, dry weather, lack of resources and complicated areas along the line, and put forward the construction concept of "sand control first". For the first time, the sand control project and railway construction were carried out simultaneously, keeping a close eye on the construction tasks and objectives, and steadily and efficiently promoting the construction process.

Since the construction of Heruo Railway started, it has actively helped to overcome poverty and maintained and consolidated the achievements of poverty alleviation. In the process of railway construction, Xinjiang railway departments actively give priority to the use of local resources, optimize temporary construction projects, give priority to solving the surplus labor along the railway, vigorously safeguard and consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, and contribute to rural revitalization. If the railway is completed, it will be connected with Kuge Railway and South Xinjiang Railway. People from southern Xinjiang will not bypass Turpan when they leave Xinjiang, but can go directly to the mainland through Ruoqiang and Qinghai, and the journey to Xinjiang will be shortened by 1000 kilometers, which is convenient for local people to travel and greatly saves time and cost. It is worth mentioning that the opening of the railway will end the history that there are no railways in five counties and cities and three corps farms in southern Xinjiang, such as Luopu, Yutian, Qira, Qiemo and Minfeng. The rich product resources and tourism resources in southern Xinjiang will be further developed with the opening of the railway, so that local people can fully enjoy the dividends of railway development, which is of positive significance for helping rural revitalization. If the railway has become a veritable "rich line".

Up to now, Lanxin Railway, Harlem Railway, Kuge Railway, etc. It has been completed. The completion of Ruoqiang Railway is bound to deepen the interaction between southern Xinjiang and the mainland, and further smooth the Eurasian golden passage with the northwest region as the node. Ruoqiang will play the role of the bridgehead of transportation and logistics in southern Xinjiang and accelerate the turnover of passengers and goods in southern Xinjiang, which is of great significance to promoting the economic development of the western region and smoothing the channels of humanities exchanges.

If the railway laying is completed, it is expected to be put into operation in June next year. On September 27th, at about 1 1, at the construction site of Hotan Ruoqiang Railway in Minfeng County, Hotan District, Xinjiang, the last group of 500-meter-long rails fell smoothly, marking the completion of the track laying of Heluo Railway.

With a total length of 825.476 kilometers, Heruo Railway is a national key railway project, connecting Hotan area in southern Xinjiang and Ruoqiang County in Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture. Construction officially started at the end of 20 18, track laying began in May 2020, and it is expected to be put into operation in June 2022. In the past three years, railway builders have overcome the adverse effects such as high temperature and drought, difficult construction conditions and lack of resources along the line, kept a close eye on the construction tasks and objectives, and promoted railway construction with high quality and efficiency.

Railway builders are connecting rail joint splints. Mu Zhipeng Yang photo

However, if the railway is located in the southern edge of Taklimakan Desert, the second largest mobile desert in the world, known as the "Sea of Death", in order to prevent the influence of sand damage on construction, the railway put forward the construction concept of "preventing sand first" at the early stage of construction, and the sandstorm protection project was carried out simultaneously with the railway construction, which is also the first time in the national railway construction. At present, the green corridor along the railway has become a natural barrier to prevent wind and sand. Railway builders have built nearly 50 million square meters of grass squares along the railway, and planted nearly130,000 shrubs and trees such as Haloxylon ammodendron, willow and seabuckthorn.

Railway builders are connecting rail joint splints. Mu Zhipeng Yang photo

Heruo Railway is an important regional road network trunk line in the central and western regions in the National Medium-and Long-term Railway Network Planning, and it is a convenient transportation channel for southern Xinjiang to communicate with northwest and southwest regions. The Kashi-Hotan Railway in the west section of the corridor was completed and opened to traffic at the end of 20 10, and the Ruoqiang-Golmud section in the east section was opened to traffic at the end of 2020.

The comprehensive roll-out of Heruo Railway marks the roll-out of the last link of the railway line around Tarim Basin and Taklimakan Desert. The railway loop around Tarim Basin, which consists of Heruo Railway, South Xinjiang Railway and Geku Railway, is another railway loop in Xinjiang after the formation of the northern Xinjiang railway loop last year. After the opening of operation, it will end the history of no trains in Luopu, Qira, Yutian, Minfeng and Qiemo counties, which is of great significance to promoting regional economic development and further promoting rural revitalization.