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[Exploration along the Haolebaoji-Ji’an Railway Starting from Jingzhou] Sanmenxia: embellished “City of Swans”
Updated: 2019-10-22 16:43:57

Sanmenxia City actively implements the greendevelopment idea in the social and economic high-quality development promotion processas well as the railway construction process. It has promoted the ecologicalremediation work of wetland nature reserves in Xiaoqinling and the area aroundthe Yellow River and deepened the greening work and green area improvement work.The forest coverage rate of Sanmenxia City has reached 50.7%, ranking first inHenan Province. The green environment has laid a good foundation for the citydevelopment and the city development has added brilliance to the present greenenvironment. Focusing on its advantageous resources, Sanmenxia City hasvigorously promoted its industrial optimization and upgrade. 

After we passed through Shaanxi Province andShanxi Province, we entered Henan Province. Our first stop was Sanmenxia City,Henan Province. Sanmenxia City is located in the Golden Delta of the YellowRiver among Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province and Henan Province. Like JingzhouCity, Sanmenxia City has been made prosperous and beautiful by water. It hasbeen honored a Pearl of the Yellow River and a City of Swans. Today, theOmnimedia Interview Group of Exploration along the Haolebaoji-Ji’an RailwayStarting from Jingzhou came to Sanmenxia City to find how a small town near thewest boundary of Henan Province has been turned into a modernized “beautifulcity of swans”. 

In Jingzhou, there is a highway and railwaycombined bridge over the Yangtze River. Similarly, in Sanmenxia City, there isa highway and railway combined bridge over the Yellow River. The bridge hasbeen named the Sanmenxia Highway and Railway Combined Bridge over the YellowRiver. It used to be a strictly-controlled key project of the wholeHaolebaoji-Ji’an Railway. It is a bridge between two provinces, connectingShanxi Province in the north and Henan Province in the south. 

Going along the Haolebaoji-Ji’an Railway, wecame to the Yellow River Sanmenxia Reservoir at the boundary between ShanxiProvince and Henan Province and we saw an azure bridge connecting the two banksof the Yellow River. The bridge was the Sanmenxia Highway and Railway CombinedBridge over the Yellow River. Though the bridge was only over 5,000 meters long,it has kept three world records.  

The Sanmenxia Highway and Railway Combined Bridge overthe Yellow River is located in the upstream of Sanmenxia Reservoir. Because itis close to the Sanmenxia Swan Lake National-level Wetland Reserve, every yeartens of thousands of swans fly for over 5,000 kilometers from remote Siberia tothis place to spend the winter months here. The number of the swans hereaccounts for two thirds of the total number of the swans in China. This is whySanmenxia City is called a “City of Swans”. The bridge goes through the reserve,which shows how the project was completed without destroying the ecologicalenvironment.  

As a typical resource-based city, Sanmenxiaboasts 66 kinds of mineral deposits, including three major kinds ofadvantageous resources — gold, aluminum and coal. To get rid of its dependenceon the resources, Sanmenxia City has developed five major industries — the goldindustry, the aluminum industry, the coal and coal chemical industry, the featuredagriculture and the green industry. Corresponding to the five major industries,five colors - yellow, white, black, red and green — have been designated andSanmenxia City has thus put forward the “colorful Sanmenxia” construction plan. 

This year, SDIC Jincheng Metallurgy Co., Ltd.,located in Sanmenxia City, has carried out full production in “thecomprehensive multi-metal recovery project of the complex refractory goldconcentrate with a daily handling capacity of 2,000 ton/day”, adopted thecurrent most advanced international and domestic smelting technology, producedgold, silver and copper, comprehensively recovered over 10 other elements andgained all the useful things of the raw mineral materials. 

Mr. Liu Hui, General Manager Assistant of SDICJincheng Metallurgy Co., Ltd. in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, said that theraw materials for production purchased by the company had been classified intotwo parts - international raw materials and domestic raw materials. Theinternational raw materials were mainly transported from Qingdao Port toSanmenxia City by the Lianyungang-Lanzhou Railway. The domestic raw materialswere mainly transported through automobile transportation. Meanwhile, many ofthe corporate products to be sold were also transported through automobiletransportation, including the sulfuric acid products sold to Hubei Yihua. Afterthe Haolebaoji-Ji’an Railway was put into operation, the raw material andproduct transportation method of SDIC Jincheng Metallurgy Co., Ltd. would begreatly changed. 

Datang Sanmenxia Power Generation Co., Ltd. isalso expecting the Haolebaoji-Ji’an Railway. The company is the second largestpower generation enterprise in Henan Province. It needs over 4.5 million tonsof raw coal every year. As for the coal from Shaanxi Province and ShanxiProvince, half of the coal is transported by rail and the other half by road. Accordingto the requirement that coal should be “transported by rail”, considering thereduction of the corporate coal transportation cost, Datang Sanmenxia PowerGeneration Co., Ltd. will strive to increase the “coal transported by rail” toover 80%. The proportion increase of the “coal transported by rail” mainlydepends on the Haolebaoji-Ji’an Railway. 

Nanhaijiao, Deputy General Manager of DatangSanmenxia Power Generation Co., Ltd., said that the operation of theHaolebaoji-Ji’an Railway would reduce the corporate raw coal cost by at least20 yuan/ton according to some relevant calculation. If the company consumes 3million tons of raw coal a year, at least 60 million yuan as a part of the costwill be saved. 

At present, the north-south Haolebaoji-Ji’anRailway and the east-west Lianyungang-Lanzhou Railway intersect at SanmenxiaCity. Relying on the two major cargo transportation railways and some otherrailways, Sanmenxia City is working hard to turn Sanmenxia into a regionaltransportation junction and gradually improves itself and changes into aninter-provincial regional central city in the “Golden Delta” of the YellowRiver among Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan. 


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