JINAN, April 29 (Xinhua) -- China's leading new energy vehicle maker BYD will set up a monorail train production base and launch a tourist monorail line in east China's Shandong Province.
According to an agreement recently signed between BYD and the government of Jining city, the 35-km-long cloud rail connects Qufu with Zoucheng.
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The total investment for the first phase is 8 billion yuan (1.16 billion U.S. dollars). The rail, or called Yungui, will be completed in September next year.
Monorail trains can run at a maximum speed of 80 km per hour. Compared with subways, overground monorail costs less and is less noisy.
The Qufu-Zoucheng monorail will be convenient for tourists and residents to travel between the two cities, said Feng Jialei, head of the Jining Investment Promotion Bureau. Enditem
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