An incredible time-lapse video shows how a group of Chinese workers operating with military precision managed to lay down the railway for a new station in less than nine hours.
The video, released by Pear and dating back to January 2018, shows hundreds of construction employees working on the Nanlong Railway Station project.
The station is located in Longyan, a city in the southwestern Fujian province of China now crossed by a high-speed railway.
News of this project went viral at the time of its completion as it emerged it had taken workers only between 6.30pm on January 19 2018 and 3am the following day to fulfil their assignment.
A similar feat involved 1,500 construction workers as well as seven trains and 23 diggers.
The works carried out included laying the tracks connecting with three railways, installing traffic signals and monitoring equipment.
The tracks served to connect the new Nanlong Railway with Ganlong Railway, Ganruilong Railway and Zhanglong Railway.
Speaking about how the project came to completion at such speed, Shan Daosong, a deputy manager at China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group, said at the time: “We divided workers into seven units to carry out the construction simultaneously.”
This project was part of a series of impressive plans to boost China’s infrastructure.
Also in 2018, China unveiled the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge – a bridge-tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel and four artificial islands. This bridge cost around £14.8billion to build.
Another infrastructure megaproject was the world’s largest radio telescope launched in 2016.
Measuring 1640 feet in diameter, this radio telescope has been searching for signals from stars and galaxies over the past few years.
