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The Hunan provincial government reported that the Yongzhou beam yard completed all 451 precast box girders assigned to the yard on September 28, 2026, marking completion of box-girder prefabrication across the Shaoyang-Yongzhou high-speed railway. Hunan Daily's New Hunan report says the line has four beam yards and 1,695 box girders in total.
Read signalChina Railway Group reported that the Baohui beam yard in Shanghai's Baoshan District completed all 1,668 precast box girders assigned to the yard on September 22, 2026. The source says the final girder was 32.6 meters long and weighed 370.7 tonnes, and that the yard supports works on the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway Shanghai-Nanjing section and the second phase of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway.
Read signalTaixing Municipal People's Government reported that the Taixing East beam yard for Lot 5 of the Yancheng-Taizhou-Wuxi-Changzhou-Yixing Railway completed a one-time pour of its first box girder on September 21, 2026. The source says the yard is now commissioned and will handle 917 precast box girders for the lot.
Read signalCSCEC Science and Technology Group reported that the Tianhe Aoti New City affordable-housing project in Guangzhou had completed structural topping-out. The source says the 91,600-square-meter project can provide 680 homes, and that its 16-floor Building 1 uses 208 MCS concrete modules manufactured in an intelligent housing factory.
Read signalGuangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau posted September 24, 2026 acceptance notices for two factory buildings, identified as D-3 and D-4, under a prefabricated-component production-base project in Zengcheng District. The notices list the applicant as the Changgang Village collective economic organization in Yongning Subdistrict and give the project location as Songziling, Changgang Village.
Read signalChina Railway Group reported that self-developed intelligent equipment for transporting and erecting PC track beams was put into use on the Huangshan Tourism T1 Line on September 20, 2026. The source says the system supports scaled intelligent beam erection for the line's 4,343 PC track beams on a route with extensive bridge-and-tunnel works.
Read signalLu'an Municipal Transportation Bureau reported that the G529 Jinyue route Yeji section railway-overpass works set the first batch of two precast box girders above the operating Ningxi Railway during a two-hour railway work window on September 9, 2026. The source says the 408-meter bridge is the section's core control work and uses ten 40-meter precast box girders over the railway.
Read signalTongren municipal media published a September 4, 2026 site report on the Guizhou section of the Tongren-Jishou Railway, saying the 2.45-kilometer Baoziying grand bridge had entered superstructure work and had erected 24 of its 76 box girders after a September 3 site visit. The report says crews were using heavy modular transport-and-erection equipment and an intelligent dispatching system to coordinate beam precasting, transport and erection.
Read signalThe Hunan provincial government published an August 30, 2026 Hunan Daily photo report that bridge-girder erection was under way at the Hu-Kun grand bridge on August 29. The report says China Railway No. 4 Engineering Group has completed all 524 precast box girders for Shaoyong Railway Lot 1 and erected 468 spans, equal to 89.3% of the total.
Read signalChina Railway Group reported on August 21, 2026 that China Railway No. 2 Engineering Bureau erected the first 32-meter, 134-tonne T beam for the Huangtong-Baise Railway at the Huangtong Bridge site on August 18, marking the start of bridge-girder erection on the line.
Read signalThe Jiujiang municipal government published an August 18, 2026 China Jiujiang Web report saying Jiangxi Sanfang Building Materials' new precast-component project in Hukou High-tech Industrial Park was advancing with two steel-structure workshops completed and early production under way in finished areas. The source says the project is using an early-production approach for 400,000 niu-wang-zi concrete armour blocks, with full production planned by the end of 2026.
Read signalChina Railway Group reported on August 7, 2026 that the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway's Hefei hub introduction works completed box-girder erection after the final single-line simply supported box girder was placed at the Kuadianbu River grand bridge site in Feidong County on August 5.
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