Work on a part of the Hefei-Fuzhou high-speed railway line -- which is itself an important part of the larger Bejing-Fuzhou line -- is almost completed and is expected to open to traffic by mid-July.

The soon-to-open Minqing section, of the Hefei-Fuzhou line, is in Minqing county, Fujian province, in China’s Southeast, is 22.6 kilometers long and costs approximately 1.07 billion yuan ($17.4 million). It passes through four villages and towns -- Julin, Xiongjiang, Dongqiao, and Meixi -- and will have a stop at the Minqing North Station, in Dongqiao town.

Chen Yuanjian, who is involved in work on a part of the Hefei-Fuzhou railway, told this reportersaid that the Fuzhou line also passes through Minhou county near Fuzhou, and the Jin’an and Gulou districts. The Hefei-Fuzhou line is expected to open for a trial run by the end of 2014, and officially open by the first half of 2015.

By that time, travelers will need only 50 minutes to get from Fuzhou to Wuyi Mountain, Fujian province, one-and-a-half hour to Jiangxi province’s Wuyuan county, two hours to Jiangxi’s Sanqing Mountain, less than two-and-a-half to Anhui province’s Huangshan Mountain, three to Hefei, and a mere seven to Beijing.

Edited by Yang Jie and Roger Bradshaw