Construction begins on maglev line for tourist town of Fenghuang in central China

Construction has begun on a maglev line for a tourist attraction in central China’s Hunan Province.

Workers broke ground on the project in Fenghuang, a renowned tourist town. The 9.121-km-long line drew an investment of about 1.1 billion yuan (157 million U.S. dollars), with a designed maximum speed of 100 km per hour. It will have six stations. The project will be operational at the end of June 2021, when a high-speed train project in Hunan will also start operation. Passengers can transfer to the maglev train to reach the tourist town after getting off the high-speed trains.