Recently, it was learned from the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission that since the beginning of this year, Anhui Province has fully leveraged the existing three-level railway construction coordination mechanism at the provincial, municipal, and county (district) levels to promptly coordinate and resolve conflicts and problems in land acquisition, demolition, and engineering construction, raise construction funds through multiple channels, and ensure the comprehensive completion of railway construction goals. From January to November, the province completed a cumulative railway investment of 31.798 billion yuan, exceeding the annual investment plan of 31 billion yuan.
It is reported that Anhui Province has increased funding input, strengthened coordination and scheduling, promoted institutional and mechanism innovation, and comprehensively accelerated railway construction with high-speed rail as the focus. The Anqing–Jiujiang High-Speed Railway has entered full-scale construction; track laying has begun on the Shangqiu–Hefei–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway; the first subgrade section of the Hefei–Anqing High-Speed Railway has passed handover acceptance; the main works of the Hangzhou–Huangshan High-Speed Railway have been fully connected; girder erection has started on the Zhengzhou–Fuyang High-Speed Railway; the Lu–Tong Railway project has entered its final stage; the Huaibei high-speed rail connecting line is scheduled to be completed and opened to traffic on December 28, officially ushering Huaibei City into the "high-speed rail era." The feasibility study reports for the Chizhou–Huangshan and Nanchang–Jingdezhen–Huangshan high-speed railways have passed national review, the feasibility study report for the Hefei–Xinyang High-Speed Railway has been completed, and preliminary work is steadily advancing as planned.