BEIJING, Sept 18 — The land acquisition process for the 665-kilometre-long East Coast Rail Link project is now 93 per cent completed, said Railway Business Unit of China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd , general manager Zhang Wenfeng.
“The seven per cent is not a big amount, however, if there is a delay , it will affect the completion time. Otherwise, the project can be completed on time,” he told Malaysian reporters in a special interview recently. Zhang said the construction of the project has achieved 50.29 per cent progress till the middle of last month and is on track to be completed by the end of 2027.
Zhang said they have also implemented environmental protection including changing the design of the alignment and adopting advanced TBM equipment to replace the traditional mining methods such as blasting and excavation for tunnel construction to minimise the impact of the project on the environment.