Recently, we learned from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission that the commission has approved the Recommendation of Project of Railway-Airport Line in Nanning Suburb, which means that Nanning has made a solid step further on implementing the strategy of strengthening the capital comprehensively. It meant a lot to improving the urban comprehensive transportation system, strengthening the rapid link between the Nanning Wuxu International Airport, Wuxu groups and the central urban districts, improving the guarantee ability of urban transportation service, promoting the development of economic zone of airport and satisfying the demands of building Nanning Wuxu International Airport into the pivot airport towards the ASEAN portal.
It was understood that the line of the project started from Nanning Wuxu International Airport and it linked with the Nanning international airport comprehensive transportation hub under construction. It reached the Yudong Station through airport entrance road, Nanchong railway corridor, Youyi Road, Southern Ring Road railway corridor and Yuehu Road from south to north and linked with the Yudong Station in the Railway No. 2. The total length of the line is around 23 kilometers and there are 5 stations and 1 depot. Its major technical standard was steel wheel and railway system and double line system, the target speed was 120 km/h and the total volume of investment estimate of the project was 8.45 billion yuan.