据仰光消息,本周一中铁二院在仰光地方议会媒体室介绍了其建设仰光高价铁路项目计划:

项目耗资:15亿美元(中铁二院提供资金);

运营期:50年;

全长:37.9公里;

车站数量:24个;

建设期:2-3年.

地区立法会负责人表示:该地区仍然存在征地问题,并不同意该公司开发替代路线,而不是连接该市现有的环线铁路的计划。由于议会正在审查过去批准的长期项目，因此需要考虑50年的任期。

China is looking to make furtherinroads into Myanmar’s economy by funding a US$1.5-billion elevated railwayproject in the country’s commercial capital,Yangon.

China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co.,Ltd(CREEC)made a presentation about its planned project to develop anelevated railway to lawmakers in a media room in the regional parliament onMonday.

Under the proposed project,CREEC willbuild the 37.9 kilometer-long elevated railroad with 24 stations in two tothree years.The company said it will fund the project,which is estimated tocost$1.5 billion,but asked for a 50-year contract to operate the service,according to MPs who were at the presentation meeting.

Regional lawmaker U Than Naing Oo fromPanbedan Township told The Irrawaddy that lawmakers raised the issue of theregion’s ongoing problems with land seizures and confiscations,and disagreedwith the company’s plan to develop an alternative route instead of connectingwith the city’s existing circular railway.

The Ministry of Transport andCommunications is upgrading Yangon’s circular railway line with the help ofJapan International Cooperation Agency.The upgrade includes modernizing theline’s stations,tracks and trains.Management expects to finish the project in2023.Some 73,000 commuters ride the line daily.

U Than Naing Oo said CREEC expects the railline to serve some 400,000 commuters daily.It proposed two lines:one fromKyeemyindaing to Mingalardon and another from North Okkala’s Kyauk Yay Twinn toYangon International Airport.

He said the 50-year term would need to beconsidered,as Parliament is reviewing long-term projects approved in the past.

Yangon Region Investment Monitoring Teamchairwoman Naw Pan Thinzar Myo,who is also the region’s Karen ethnic affairsminister,and Yangon Region Parliament deputy speaker U Lin Naing Myint werealso present at the meeting.

According to lawmaker U Than Naing Oo,NawPan Thinzar Myo said the regional government basically agreed with the proposedproject,as the government wouldn’t need to fund it or obtain loans.However,for final approval,the minister said the plan would be submitted to the rulingNational League for Democracy’s economic committee and to the Union Governmentfor review,the lawmaker added.

Prior to holding its first presentationabout the project for lawmakers on Monday,the company met and discussed theissue with regional government officials in late 2018.

Regional lawmaker U Yan Aung from MingalarTaung Nyunt Township said he heard that companies from other countries are alsointerested in developing the elevated railway and are preparing to presenttheir plans to the regional chief minister.

“We welcome competition.Officials,including[we lawmakers],can decide which will be the best option for thepublic,”he said.

In November last year Hong Kong-listedChina Communications Construction Co.Ltd finalized its proposal for thedevelopment of$1.5 billion(2.4 trillion kyats)worth of initialinfrastructure for the controversial“New Yangon City”project to the west ofthe Yangon River.