At 10:30 am on December 25, a freight train slowly departed from Shuangjia Station on the Long-Lu-Xu Railway in Shuangjia Town, Longmatan District, Luzhou, marking the official completion and opening of the Long-Lu-Xu Railway.

The Long-Lu-Xu Railway is an important part of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor's western railway mainline. The line starts from the existing Chengdu-Chongqing Railway at Longchang Station, passing through Longchang City, Luxian County, Longmatan District, Jiangyang District, Naxi District, and Xuyong County, with a total length of approximately 138 kilometers. It is a single-track Class I railway designed for a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, featuring 11 stations including Longchang, Jiaming, Fuji, and Shuangjia. The project was fully funded and constructed by Sichuan Province.

The inaugural train hauled 18 freight cars, carrying nearly 1,500 tons of fertilizers and chemical raw materials. The route of the first train runs from Chengdu through Luzhou to Beibu Gulf.

To the north, the Long-Lu-Xu Railway connects with the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, and to the south, it links with the Xuyong-Bijie Railway. Relying on other railways such as the Huangbai and Nankun lines, the newly built Long-Lu-Xu Railway will form a major land-sea multimodal transportation corridor from Sichuan through Guangxi's Fangchenggang and Qinzhou ports, directly reaching Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

This will significantly reduce logistics costs along the route, support Sichuan's active integration into the national strategy of opening up, and comprehensively connect with the 'China-Indo-China Peninsula' Economic Corridor and the '21st Century Maritime Silk Road'.

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