Railway · People's Republic of China

How much did Wuhan–Guangzhou high-speed railway cost to build?

The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway, known as the Wuguang line, is the high-speed line between Wuhan and Guangzhou whose company was founded in 2005 and which opened to traffic in 2009. The Sina Finance weekly of 1 July 2011, in its first detailed disclosure of the line's accounts, writes of more than 60 billion yuan of debt and 115.1 billion yuan of total investment, with debt of 60.347 billion yuan at the end of 2009 and first-year revenue of 5 billion yuan.

Final project cost

CNY 115.1 billion

Approximately $16.85 billion

Cost basis: 2009

WuGuang Express Railway CRH3 Operational Speed: 338km/h
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Cost evidence

Basis of the published figure

Final project cost2009
zh.wikipedia.org

Project record

Opened or launched

Sina Finance

2009

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