A worker erects a box girder at the construction site of a mega bridge in the Hebei section of the Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway in north China’s Hebei Province, April 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)
Girder erection work in the Hebei section of Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway was fully completed on Sunday as the last box girder was erected on a mega bridge. The 552-kilometer-long railway will connect Xiong’an in north China’s Hebei Province and Shangqiu in central China’s Henan Province with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour.
An aerial drone photo taken on April 27, 2025 shows workers erecting a box girder at the construction site of a mega bridge in the Hebei section of the Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway in north China’s Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)An aerial drone photo taken on April 27, 2025 shows workers erecting a box girder at the construction site of a mega bridge in the Hebei section of the Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway in north China’s Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)Workers erect a box girder at the construction site of a mega bridge in the Hebei section of the Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway in north China’s Hebei Province, April 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)Workers erect a box girder at the construction site of a mega bridge in the Hebei section of the Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway in north China’s Hebei Province, April 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)An aerial drone photo taken on April 27, 2025 shows workers erecting a box girder at the construction site of a mega bridge in the Hebei section of the Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway in north China’s Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)An aerial drone photo taken on April 27, 2025 shows the construction site of the Hebei section of the Xiong’an-Shangqiu high-speed railway in Qinghe County, north China’s Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance,
a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went
back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016,
working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
