Travel speeds up with the opening of multiple high-speed rail routes.

Recently, more engineering projects have been completed and put into use, making future travel more convenient and accelerating economic and social development. The Ankang to Langao Expressway in Shaanxi was opened to traffic yesterday. The Anlan Expressway is an important part of the national high-speed road network, with a length of 88.554 kilometers, crossing the mountains of southern Shaanxi with a bridge and tunnel ratio of 96%. After its opening, it connects with the Chongqing Chengkou to Kaizhou Expressway, becoming an important inter-provincial passage between Shaanxi and Chongqing. According to China Railway Group, the Wuhan to Yichang section of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed railway started operation today. The Wuhan-Yichang section of the railway is 314 kilometers long, with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour, allowing travel between Wuhan and Yichang in just 69 minutes, reducing the journey time by 34 minutes compared to the current high-speed trains on the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed railway. Yesterday, the Shaanxi-Chongqing section of the G69 Yinchuan Expressway, including the section from the Shaanxi-Chongqing border to Beiping and the section from Langao to the Shaanxi-Chongqing border on the Anlan Expressway, were opened to traffic simultaneously, completing the full opening of the Shaanxi-Chongqing section of the G69 Yinchuan Expressway. The expansion and renovation project of the third phase of the Taiyuan Wusu International Airport in Shanxi officially put into operation yesterday, with the opening of a new second runway. The new second runway at Taiyuan Airport is located 490 meters south of the original runway centerline, with a length of 3600 meters and a width of 45 meters, capable of meeting the landing and takeoff needs of large wide-body aircraft. The Longchang to Xuyong Railway via Leshan in Sichuan Province, an important part of the western land and sea new corridor, began operating yesterday, with a total length of approximately 139 kilometers and a design speed of 120 kilometers per hour, providing a convenient railway passage for the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle to reach northern Guizhou, Nanning in Guangxi, and the northern bay area.