# China Railway Construction breaks ground on $148M equipment base in Baotou

China Railway Construction broke ground on a 1 billion yuan ($148 million) high-end equipment manufacturing base in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. The facility will produce tunnel boring machines and concrete segments for metro and underground pipe gallery projects, creating 500 jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-05-22
- Where: Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China
- Value: $148.0M (1.00B CNY)
- Jobs: 500
- Starts operating: 30 Sep 2017
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 20 tunnel boring machines per year
- Products: tunnel boring machines, concrete segments, precast concrete components
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [China Railway Construction Corporation](https://endata.com/companies/20391.md)
- [China Railway Construction Heavy Industry](https://endata.com/companies/24435.md)

## Sources

- [news.cnr.cn](http://news.cnr.cn/native/city/20170522/t20170522_523767315.shtml), 2017-05-22: "今天动工，到9月30号建成投产，想创造包头速度，要为包头地铁建设作出贡献。"

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