Domestic fastest metro vehicles to serve Guangzhou Asian Games

The domestic longest subway line Guangzhou Subway Line 3 with a full length of 67.25km, stretching from Guangzhou New Baiyun International Airport to Guangzhou East Railway Station, will connect the two ends from today on. 258 China s fastest metro vehicles, with a speed of 120km/h each, developed and manufactured by CSR Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd., will shoulder the heavy transport task of the traffic artery during the Asian Games.

Thrilling Games, Harmonious Asia . On the eve of the 16^th Asian Games, the ceremony for full opening and trial operation of Subway Line 3 took place at the Guangzhou New Baiyun International Airport on October 30.

According to Guangzhou Metro Corporation GMC, based on an original length of 36.35km, Line 3 has extended 39.9km north from Guangzhou East Railway Station to Guangzhou the New Baiyun International Airport and all the extended part is underground.

Following full opening and operation, Guangzhou Subway Line 3 will overtake Beijing Daxing Subway Line 50km as China s longest subway line. On such a long line, 120km/h metro vehicles will save time by nearly one third compared with 80km/h ones.

The latest network graph in 2010 released by Guangzhou shows that Line 3 also ranks with 28 stations among all the subway lines in Guangzhou. According to the source, Line 3 stretches from Panyu Plaza in the south to the terminal of the new airport in the north, runs past Panyu, Tianhe, Baiyun and Huadu districts, and covers the greater part of Guangzhou from south to north. Line 3 and New Line 2 will become the two major underground passages running through Guangzhou.

During the Asian Games, GMC will input more than 1,200 metro vehicles, which are characterized by long operation period, high safety requirements and uneven passenger flow. The daily passenger flow is expected to top 4.5 million.

As a major metro vehicle supplier and voluntary professional metro supporter of the Guangzhou Asian Games, CSR Zhuzhou will contribute 414 metro vehicles, accounting for more than one third of the total number. Can the input vehicles satisfy intensive transport during the Games?

They can fully bear such intensive transport! Xu Zongxiang, executive director and general manager of CSR Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd., said in an interview that all the metro vehicles delivered by the company were not only developed and manufactured in accordance with the world s highest International Railway Industry Standard IRIS, but also withstood the test of early intensive operation with an uneventful record.

Before the opening of Line 3, the 258 metro vehicles delivered by CSR Zhuzhou has run safely for more than 21,000,000km and transported more than 1.05 billion passengers. The 156 metro vehicles supplied to New Line 2 has also run safely for more than 1,200,000km and transported more than 100,000,000 passengers, fully showing the high reliability and quality of the metro vehicles manufactured by CSR Zhuzhou.

Liu Zhenwei, South China customer representative of CSR Zhuzhou, said confidently, Through the four-two-one service structure special service leading group, special service working group, special service execution group and site special service group, two-level technical support, one service representative for each project as well as the three-level response mechanism namely special service staff adding, stationing and basing services, the company will store up sufficient vehicle spares to ensure riding comfort and travel convenience during the Asian Games.