New high-speed railway enters operation in China's Yunnan

STORY: New high-speed railway enters operation in China's Yunnan DATELINE: Dec. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Mile-Mengzi high-speed railway 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI WEIXIANG, Villager in Mengzi 3. various of the Mile-Mengzi high-speed railway STORYLINE: A 106-km high-speed railway, linking the cities of Mengzi and Mile in China's Yunnan Province, was put into operation on Friday. With a designed speed of 250 km per hour, the new railway has slashed the travel time between Mengzi and Kunming, the provincial capital, to 69 minutes. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI WEIXIANG, Villager in Mengzi "It is very convenient for us villagers to go to other places for work, or go to the provincial capital since the high-speed railway is in operation. It will be easier for us to sell the loquats and jujubes we planted, and our income will increase." The construction of this railway started in June 2018. A total of 52 bridges and ten tunnels were built to ov