On the 17th, the sixth day of the first lunar month, the single-track tunnel section from Dongjing River Depot Line to Chuanjiangchi Station on Wuhan Metro Line 16 achieved breakthrough, marking the first tunnel section completed in the Year of the Ox.


　　On the same day, all sections of Line 16 had fully resumed work, with 1,200 builders working simultaneously, accelerating the construction of the entire metro line.

　　Tan Conglong, owner's representative of the Construction Business Headquarters of Wuhan Metro Group, introduced that the shield machine will be lifted using the translation method, and another adjacent shield machine is about to complete underground excavation. Currently, shield tunneling, track laying, and elevated construction on the line are all progressing steadily, striving for the construction milestone targets.

　　The reporter saw at the site that the shield machine had reached the second underground floor of the station, the portal had been broken through, and the next step was to dismantle the shield machine after its entire body emerged, translate it to the shield shaft, and lift it out of the tunnel one after another by crawler crane, leaving a working face for subsequent construction.


　　Meng Wei, a builder from China Railway Sixth Group working on the section, is from Inner Mongolia. After choosing to stay in Wuhan for the Spring Festival this year, he has basically not left the project department. On the second day of the first lunar month, concerned that the shield machine was about to reach the portal, a key construction stage for shield reception, he took his colleagues down the tunnel from the shaft of the depot line, walked 40 minutes to the location of the shield machine, repeatedly checked the conditions inside the tunnel, and discussed the reception construction plan with everyone.

　　The further the shield tunneling in the underground section progresses, the longer the "commute" for the builders. Taking the just-completed shield-driven section as an example, the single-track distance reaches 1.9 kilometers, and walking in the not-yet-fully-completed tunnel section is not very convenient, so everyone's daily round-trip commute is entirely on foot, taking about 1.5 hours.

　　Starting from the third day of the first lunar month, shield reception officially began: equipment advancement, portal breakthrough, the machine slowly driving out of the portal, until successful reception was completed. The builders in this section walked several kilometers underground to "commute" every day. "The Spring Festival holiday is actually the same as usual work. The owner's representative and project manager of Wuhan Metro Group are all with us, sticking to the construction site."

　　Up to now, 11 stations on Line 16 have completed their main structures, only 4 single-track sections of the underground shield-driven intervals are still being "excavated," the total track laying length of the entire line exceeds 30 kilometers, and some stations have begun renovation construction.

　　Wuhan Metro Line 16 has a total length of about 33.1 kilometers, with 12 stations, including 5 elevated stations and 7 underground stations. It is a city express line, a rapid rail transit line connecting Hannan, Junshan, and the central urban area. It starts from Zhoujiahe Station in the south and ends at Guobo Center in the north, with 2 transfer stations along the line: transfer with Line 6 at Laoguancun Station, and three-line transfer with Line 6 and Line 12 at Guobo Center South Station.