"High-speed rail sets pace in Turkey
Updated: 2011-07-16 14:09
By Zhang Haizhou (China Daily)
Project serves as springboard to enter European market, reports Zhang Haizhou in Ankara.
It was noontime and the temperature was more than 30 C on this typical summer day in Pamukova, in mountainous west Turkey.
When everyone else was having a lunch break indoors, chief engineer Wu Jiuyi was standing in the sun, staring at steel tracks piled and glinting on the muddy land, 160 kilometers southeast of Istanbul.
'We have everything ready,' he said as he scratched his forehead. 'If the Turks can hand over the finished groundwork we can lay the tracks quickly and do the other work to wrap up this project.'"
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