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The first electrified railway in China is?
The first electrified railway in China is baoji-chengdu railway. Baoji-chengdu railway is located in Sichuan Province, Gansu Province and Shaanxi Province, with a total length of 668.438+098km from Baoji City in Shaanxi Province to Chengdu City in Sichuan Province. Baoji-chengdu railway started construction in July, 1952, baoji-chengdu railway started electrification transformation in June, 1958, and China Railway took the lead in electrification in June, 1975.

Baoji-chengdu railway is the traffic artery connecting northwest and southwest, the first electrified railway in China and the first arduous railway in New China. The completion of this railway has changed the situation of "difficulty in entering Sichuan" and created important conditions for the development of economic construction in southwest China.

Baoji-chengdu railway is mainly responsible for the exchange of materials between southwest and northwest regions, and is the backbone of the national railway network, which has played a great role in the development of industrial and agricultural economy along the line.

The Value Significance of baoji-chengdu railway

The completion of baoji-chengdu railway opened the process of railway modernization in China. Since then, with the pace of economic construction and reform and opening up in the motherland, electrified railways have entered a period of rapid development.

In just over 20 years, it has become the ninth country with an electrified railway of 10,000 kilometers after Russia, Germany and Japan. This achievement is inseparable from the fact that baoji-chengdu railway has trained and trained a large number of construction backbones.