Mengxihua China Railway Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Meng Xi Railway Company) was established on August 20 12. China Railway Construction Investment Company (hereinafter referred to as China Railway Investment Corporation) holds 20% of the shares on behalf of China Railway Corporation, and the remaining nine sponsors * * * of China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shenhua Group), China China Coal Energy Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as China Coal Energy), SDIC Transportation Company (hereinafter referred to as SDIC Transportation) and Shaanxi Coal Chemical Group Co., Ltd. hold 20%.
It is worth mentioning that among the sponsors of Meng Xi Railway 16, Yitai Group and Mengtai Coal and Electricity are private capital. Yitai Group, which belongs to Yitai Coal Industry, began to invest in railway construction as early as 1998, and now holds three special coal transportation lines: Zhundong Railway, Shanghai Zhun Railway and Suancigou Railway.
Meng Xi Railway starts from Erdos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and ends in Ji 'an City, Jiangxi Province. It passes through 7 provinces and regions such as Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan, and * * * passes through 28 counties (banners) in 13 city, with a total length of 1837 km. The technical standard is national railway level I, and electric traction is adopted. It is a heavy-duty special railway that attracts the main coal-producing areas of Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia and covers the coal-using areas in Central China. It is a national strategic transportation channel for "transporting coal from the north to the south". The estimated investment is 654.38+053.97 billion yuan, and the planned and designed railway transportation capacity is 200 million tons. At the initial stage of construction and operation, the transportation capacity reached 6.5438+0 million tons, and 20 pairs of buses were operated daily. It is planned to start construction on 20 12 and be completed and opened to traffic on 20 17.