April 1, english.people.com.cn - The Ganzhou-Longyan railway, a key state railway project which links southern Jiangxi Province and western Fujian Province, opened to traffic Friday after three years of construction.

Costing 6.33 billion yuan (765 million US dollars), with 209.1 kilometers long, the railway is expected to boost economic development in areas, when it runs through these two provinces in east China, a local government official told Xinhua.

Currently, 12 pairs of cargo trains and nine pairs of passenger trains are available on the Ganzhou-Longyan railway.

This is the seventh railway that links Jiangxi Province with the rest of China. The others are Jingjiu line(Beijing-Kowloon ), Zhegan line ( Hangzhou-Nanchang ), Yingxia line ( Yingtan-Xiamen ), Ninggan line ( Nanjing-Nanchang ) , Hejiu line( Hefei -Jiujiang ),and Wujiu line ( Wuhan-Jiujiang ).