HOT Empowers the Successful Heavy-Load Commissioning of the Hutubi Corridor, Building Xinjiang's Longest 'Aerial Coal Transport' Corridor End to End!

Preface

On February 22, 2026, the Jiuzhouchang Coal Comprehensive Utilization Logistics Hub Project in Hutubi County reached a key milestone: its core project, the 34.5-kilometer coal-conveying corridor, successfully completed heavy-load commissioning with the Gou Coal Mine, officially marking full-line connectivity.

This milestone new outbound channel for Xinjiang coal was planned and designed overall by Liu Zhengquan of HOT (Chengdu), and was jointly completed with the coordinated support of the HOT (Chengdu) team. The smooth progress of this heavy-load commissioning marks the project's formal entry into the practical verification stage, laying a solid foundation for full operation to follow.

Image: Xinjiang's longest mountain coal-conveying corridor enters the heavy-load trial stage at Xinjiang Changji, Hutubi County. News from Xinjiang Satellite TV.

01  A Masterpiece Across the Tianshan Mountains

As Xinjiang's longest mountain cross-country coal-conveying corridor with the greatest elevation drop, the project has a total investment of nearly RMB 700 million. Across the entire line, the elevation drop exceeds 800 meters, spanning rivers, mountains, and grasslands. The steel-structure trestle gallery is approximately 18 kilometers long, and the tunnel reaches 1,335 meters, tightly linking the deep-mountain coal mine with the logistics hub at the foot of the mountain.

This corridor has completely ended the history of more than 300 coal trucks shuttling day and night, truly realizing 'coal moving through the air, with coal transport no longer seen.'

02  HOT's 'From 0 to 1'

Throughout the entire process from scheme design to construction drawing design, the team focused on key links such as process-flow review and overall site-plan optimization. It continued to deepen detail control, striving to ensure efficient functional operation while also balancing the project's implementability and economic feasibility. The planning and design of the park's overall layout and functional zones embody the team's in-depth thinking and professional expertise, providing solid technical support for the project's smooth advancement.

03  Smart Hub: Seamless Integration

Under the leadership of Engineer Sheng Yu, HOT (Chengdu)'s intelligent systems department successfully created a raw-coal automatic truck-loading system, precisely connecting the 'corridor + truck transport' logistics chain. With an annual capacity of 7 million tons and stable around-the-clock operation, the system brings the park's outbound transport efficiency to its optimum.

04  Strategic Significance: Breakthrough and Empowerment

Once the project is fully in operation, it will reduce carbon emissions by about 40,000 tons each year and cut overall logistics costs by 10%. This achievement not only contributes solid strength to air-quality management in the Urumqi-Changji-Shihezi region, but also paves the way for subsequent transport corridors for the Gou and Weizigou coal mines. The successful heavy-load commissioning has allowed HOT to leave a clear mark of high-quality energy-logistics development across the vast land of Xinjiang.

Looking ahead, we will bring a more professional approach to the future and continue gathering green momentum for the strategy of transporting Xinjiang coal outward!