Construction of a $488m, 15.8km long underground metro line in Qingdao, Shangdong Province, on China’s east coast, is set to go ahead next year. This follows completion by the Qingdao Municipal Construction Committee of a 1.2km long pilot tunnel. The drive has given engineers both key data about ground conditions and experience of hard rock tunnelling through granite.
The line will have about 15 stations. A specially constituted body, the Qingdao Underground Railway Company, has been set up to oversee design and construction.
