China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has secured two contracts worth a total of RMB8.73bn ($1.4bn) for railway electrification and railway construction projects in China.
Under the first contract, worth RMB5.17bn ($831m), the company’s subsidiaries China Railway Electrification Bureau Group and China Railway 21st Bureau Group Electric Engineering will be responsible for installing electrification systems for a section of the Lanxin Railway in north-western China.
The deal also includes the reconstruction of Xining railway station in Qinghai province and the construction of a second double line of rail track at Lanzhou Pivot railway hub in nearby Gansu Provice.
China Railway 17th Bureau Group, a subsidiary of CRCC, will be responsible for the RMB3.6bn ($579m) second contract.
Under the deal, the company will build a 53km section of the planned 362km high-speed rail line linking the cities of Zhengzhou in Henan province, central China, and Xuzhou in Jiangsu, near China’s east coast.
The Zhengzhou – Xuzhou high-speed rail line is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016.