It has a total length of 895.3 km and passes through Hubei, Shaanxi and Sichuan province, and Chongqing municipality.
The Xiangyu railway is a major transportation route that connects the Sichuan Basin with the Central Plains.
It takes a more direct route through the mountainous terrain with bridges and tunnels, and accommodates faster trains (up to 160 km/h) and a greater carrying capacity.
[4] The Xiangyu line is the subject of an enormous landscape scroll painting that is 1.6 m wide and 128 m long.
[5] It was completed by Yang Migui in May 2008 who was a worker on the line's construction in the 1970s, and began working on the painting in 1998.