Recently, China Railway Construction Chile's Talca-Qilian concession project of Highway 5 was opened to traffic, and the installation of fully automatic electronic toll collection system was officially launched, marking that the first Chinese company's highway PPP project in Chile has entered the engineering construction stage and the project has made a breakthrough.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in Talca, Chile. Juan Eduardo Prieto, Special Representative of the President of Chile for the Maule region, Juan Carlos Diaz, Mayor of Talca, and Claudia Vasconcelos, Secretary of the Minister for the Maule Region of the Ministry of Public Works, attended the meeting. Local mainstream media cooperation network, Listen Chilean.com, Maulai network TV and other live coverage of the ceremony.

Congratulations to you on overcoming the impact of COVID-19 and realizing the opening of the train on schedule. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Juan Eduardo Prieto praised the efficiency of CRCC construction, saying that the project is the first road project in Chile to install a fully automatic electronic toll collection system, and is also the section of the second concession project to maintain high-quality operation of the road while entering the construction phase at the earliest The opening of the attached Southern Link 8 will create a more convenient transportation environment for the city.

In April 2021, The China Railway Construction Consortium formed by China Railway Jianguo Investment And China Railway Construction International Undertook the construction and operation of the project. The winning amount of the project was over 1.2 billion DOLLARS, about 7.781 billion yuan, with a total length of about 195 kilometers, which is the second busiest section of Pan-American Highway in Chile. The project includes the operation and maintenance of the existing road and the reconstruction and expansion of 29.6 kilometers Design and construction of 55.6 km of bypass roads and 13 new electronic toll collection systems.

China railway construction actively implement the overseas normalized epidemic prevention and control measures, and local government owners and other departments to carry out the positive and effective communication, give full play to the whole industrial chain advantage, realize the accessory cables to traffic and automatic electronic toll collection system installation construction, promote the project entered the stage of engineering construction, guarantee the project quality performance, for China's railway construction in Chile high quality development lay a solid foundation.

Article and data source: China International Contractors Association