At 10 a.m. on the 11th, the Caiying Tunnel on Section 7 of the newly built Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway successfully broke through. Located in Shijing Town, Nan'an City, the tunnel is the longest on the section managed by the Xiamen Command of the newly built Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway (the line has 45 tunnels in total, 20 of which are under the Xiamen Command), with a total length of 3,250 meters.

It is understood that the main works of Section 7 of the Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway are nearly 80% complete. In 2021, the section will focus on advancing construction of the steel girder erection for the main bridge of the Anhai Bay Grand Bridge, the bridge deck system and other remaining works.

The newly built Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway is Fujian Province's first high-speed railway with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour, with a total length of 277.42 kilometers. Once completed, the journey from Fuzhou to Xiamen will be shortened to within one hour, providing strong momentum for building a "one-hour economic circle" along the Fujian coast.

About the Fuzhou-Xiamen High-Speed Railway:

The newly built Fuzhou-Xiamen High-Speed Railway is China's first cross-sea high-speed railway, with a main line length of 277.42 kilometers, and is Fujian Province's first rapid railway designed for a speed of 350 kilometers per hour. Construction started in September 2017 and it is scheduled to be completed and opened to traffic in 2022.

The project starts at Fuzhou South Railway Station in the north, with Fuqing West Station set in Fuqing; after passing through Putian and sharing the station there, it crosses Meizhou Bay to Quangang District, where Quangang Station is set in Nanpu Town, Quangang; it passes through the Quanzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone, where the new Quanzhou East Station is added; it then runs south parallel to the downstream side of the Quanzhou Bay Cross-Sea Bridge to Shishi and Jinjiang; Quanzhou South Station is set in Yonghe Town, Jinjiang; it crosses Anhai Bay parallel to the downstream side of the urban alliance expressway bridge under construction and enters Nan'an City, then enters Xiamen's administrative area, connects to Xiamen North Railway Station, and finally leads to Zhangzhou Station.