On 16 January 2010, the Ministry of Railways started construction of the High Speed Train from Chengdu to Kunming. This railway is an important transport line for southwestern China. It’s the most difficult railway project in China because the railway’s safety is often threatened by debris flows. A prevention system is being developed to monitor the debris flows.
It will take 5 to 6 years to finish the whole line. When everything is ready, it will only take 4 hours to travel from Chengdu to Kunming and afterwards it will be connected with the Southeast Asia train line.
The part from Chengdu to Emei Mountain will be finished in 2013 and it will only take 30 minutes to travel between those 2 places.
