From January to August this year, national railway fixed asset investment reached 432 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%. The 482-kilometer Guiyang-Nanning High-Speed Railway opened with high quality; the Shanghai-Nanjing Yangtze River High-Speed Railway, Guangzhou-Shanwei High-Speed Railway, Fuzhou-Xiamen High-Speed Railway, and the Qingbaijiang-Zhenjiangguan section of the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway have successively entered the trial operation stage and are about to open for service. This year, more than 3,000 kilometers of new railway lines are expected to be put into operation nationwide, including 2,500 kilometers of high-speed rail.

The Shandong section of the Jinan-Zhengzhou High-Speed Railway, the Nanchang-Jingdezhen-Huangshan High-Speed Railway, the Tianjin-Xingxing Intercity Railway, and other projects have begun joint commissioning and testing, gradually testing track, catenary, communications, signaling, and other equipment along the lines, and adjusting defects identified based on test results until each system and the overall system meet the requirements for high-speed operation and dynamic acceptance.

Construction on multiple projects is also nearing completion, including the Chengdu-Yibin High-Speed Railway, the Lijiang-Shangri-La section of the Yunnan-Tibet Railway, the Xuyong-Bijie Railway, and the Longyan-Wuping section of the Longlong Railway.