Railway Vehicles Bogie Production Project

Railway Vehicles Bogie Production Project of Changchun City

 

1 Introduction to the Project

1.1 Project Background

1.1.1 Product Introduction

Bogie is one of important components of railway vehicle, which is mainly consisted of wheel set, axle box, primary spring suspension device, framework, secondary spring device suspension and drive devices and basic braking device. As one independent movable device, bogie can support vehicle body, and the vehicle's total weight (except bogie) as well as applied forces (such as cross wind force, centrifugal force, longitudinal vehicle traction and transit's impact force) on the vehicle at other directions, and guide the vehicle to operation on the line. There are many bogie types, according to number of axles, bogies include 2-axle bogie, 3-axle bogie and 4-axle bogie. At present, 2-axle bogie is used in most of passenger cars; according to types of spring device, bogies include primary and secondary suspension bogies, the former one is applicable to low speed vehicles, and the later one is applicable to middle and high speed vehicles; according to the positioning types of axle box, bogies include plate spring type, IS type, laminated rubber type, single connecting rod type, pedestal type, Macpherson type, pedestal (axle box frame) type, cylindrical guide rail type, cone laminated rubber type, supporting plate type (SU plate spring type).

1.1.2 Market Prospects

As faster pace of life and more frequent flow between regions, high-speed, convenient and rapid rail transit tool has been favored as time goes by. According to the statistics, by 2012, China's railway operation mileage will reach more than 110,000km, rapid transit railway network will be able to connect almost all medium and large cities in the country. Principal products of railway vehicle represented by CRH will enter into demand peak time. The increase of velocity and operating mileage proposed stricter requirements for railway vehicles. As one of important components of railway vehicles, bogie can increase the vehicle's length, load and volume and help vehicle body to conduct small radius rotation, having great significance for railway vehicles. It can be said that, gallop of high-speed transit around the world and quick development of modern urban rail vehicles are closely connected to the progress and development of bogie technology. Bogie is one of core accessories for the survival and development of "modern locomotive vehicles operated under contact and drive of wheel rail", therefore, it has broad market prospects.

With the acceleration of people’s living rhythm and increasing of the flowing frequency between the regions, the rapid and convenient railway vehicles have become in better and better favor. The improvement of the speed and the increasing of the operating mileage present stricter requirements for railway vehicles. Bogie, as one of the important components of a railway vehicle, it can increase the length, load and capacity of the vehicle and help the car body carry out small-radius gyration, which are of significance for railway vehicles. Therefore, the construction of the project is very necessary.

1.1.3 Technical Analysis

From 1950s to 1980s, based on advanced bogie technology, some countries began increasing transit velocity to about 200km/h. The maximum operating speed of DT200 bogie used in the transit of Japanese New Tokaido Line is 210km/h; maximum operating speed of Y32 bogie produced in France in 1973 is 200km/h; maximum operating speed of MD52 bogie produced in Germany in 1974 is 200km/h too. Although high-speed bogie has various types, the structural types of high-speed bogie will gradually tend to be similar as further increase of transit velocity. Their major features are: having no swing bolster or air spring suspension, having rotary damping and elastic positioning.

1.1.4 Advantageous Conditions of Project Construction

(1) Obvious location advantages

This project is located in Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone, which is 3km from downtown, 10 minutes driving from Harbin-Dalian rapid transit railway passenger station, and 30 minutes driving from ChangchunLongjiaInternationalAirport. Ring expressway and Changchun-Baicheng Highway, Changchun-Nong’an Highway and other national and provincial highways as well as the Fourth Ring Road of ChangchunCity traverse in the area, and the area has special railway line, developed road network and convenient traffic, belonging to the traffic hinge in the northwest of ChangchunCity, so the location advantages are obvious.

(2) Complete infrastructure

This project is located in Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone, which has invested a total of 1 billion yuan and completed infrastructure construction including road, communication, electricity supply, heat supply, gas supply, water supply and drainage, the area of Nine Accesses and One Leveling can reach 10km², the area of standardized industrial plant is 50,000m², and the reserved development area for railway vehicles supporting enterprises is 4km². Land formalities have been settled, infrastructure has been completely put into place, and the enterprises can construct as soon as they enter.

(3) Solid scientific and technological resources

Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone where this project is located in has established long-term cooperative relationship with 23 colleges, universities and institutes including Jilin University, Northeast Normal University, Changchun Vocational Institute of Technology, Changchun Institute of Biological Products of Ministry of Health and Changchun Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Furthermore, as the national manufacturing base of moving machinery, ChangchunCity has solid foundation and distinct features in automobile, railway vehicles and other relevant industries, as well as the advantaged strength in moving machinery's industrial development atmosphere, humanity environment, technical support and talent reserve, thus providing strong scientific and technological support for the development of this project.

(4) Privilege of governmental support

Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone where this project is located in offers the enterprises a series of preferential policies including "having priority in meeting land utilization demand and arranging interest subsidies or interest-free loans", "the enterprises enter the park can enjoy expenditure subsidy of technological research and development, support of project land as well as infrastructure construction including water, electricity and heat, preferential income tax of high and new technology enterprises, and deduction of investment in business establishment investment.

(5) Strong technical support

With the help of its market, information, talents, network and other aspects of advantageous resources, China CNR Corporation assists Changchun City Government to introduce core technology enterprises and key part production enterprises into Luyuan Development Zone, provide technical support for the part supporting enterprises that have entered into the Development Zone, properly ensuring the technical level of the production of railway vehicles decorative materials.

(6) Fast and convenient support

As early as in August 2008, CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Group Co., Ltd. was settled in this Development Zone, which has registered capital 480 million yuan, mainly produces and export CRH, urban rail transit, metro, railway vehicle, etc. After this project construction is completed, aluminium section production enterprises and Railway Vehicles Group will be settled in the same Development Zone, they can very conveniently keep supporting cooperation each other to save logistics transportation costs and order receiving and dispatching time.

(7) Excellent service environment  

Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone can provide this project with full tracking service from negotiation, site selection, procedures handling to construction, production and operation. In addition, the Development Zone plans 14km² of living service area, which can meet the production and living demand of enterprises, build good service environment for enterprises and provide convenience for the project's future development.

1.2 Content and Scale of Project Construction

1.2.1 Product Scheme and Scale

Annual output of 0.3 million railway vehicle bogie accessories.  

1.2.2 Construction Content

Total planning area of this project is 5 hectares, the construction of production area, office living area and dynamic warehouse area will be completed in 2 phases in 2 years, and production, detection and test equipment will be purchased.

1.3 Forecast of Economic and Social Benefits

1.3.1 Major Indexes for Forecast of Economic Benefits (details as per Table 1)

 

Table 1:       List of Major Indexes for Forecast of Economic Benefits

Note: "10,000 yuan" in the table refers to RMB

1.3.2 Analysis of Social Benefits

Bogie has small fixed wheel base. The coordination and relative rotation between vehicle body and bogie enables the vehicle to smoothly pass through the curves with small radius, greatly reducing running resistance. Bogie can increase vehicle's operation stability, because when the vehicle operates in the uneven route, bogie will enable vertical displacement of vehicle body to decrease, and enable the vehicle operation to be more stable. In the meantime, the bogie can be equipped with spring vibration damping device to mitigate or decrease the vibration at vertical and horizontal direction, thus further increasing the transit's operation stability. Bogie is one independent structure, which is easy to be pushed in and pushed out under the vehicle chassis, easy for maintenance, as well as improvement of labor conditions and maintenance quality. Bogie can also ensure necessary adhering, and transmit wheel axle tractive force generated from the contact part of wheel rail to vehicle body and vehicle hook to drag vehicle train forward. During operation, bogie can generate necessary braking force in order to enable the vehicle to stop within the specified braking distance. These important characteristics will enable railway vehicles to be faster, more stable and safer, having important significance for the improvement of China's rail transit equipment operation quality and safety of passengers, as well as obvious social benefits.

1.4 Total Investment and Funds Raising of the Project

1.4.1 Total Investment of the Project

Total investment of this project is RMB300 million yuan, including the construction investment of 240 million yuan, and no debt fund or interest is temporarily taken into account.

Table 2: Summary Table of the Total Investment of the Project Unit: 10 thousand yuan

Note: “10 thousand yuan” in the table refers to RMB.

1.4.2 Funds Raising

It is proposed to raise funds RMB300 million yuan. The equity financing is mainly taken, it is input in the mode of project capital and the debt funds are temporarily taken into no account.

1.5 Cooperative Ways of the Project

Sole investment, joint venture, cooperation or other methods can be discussed in person.

1.6 What to be Invested by Foreign Party

Sole investment, joint venture or other methods can be discussed in person.

1.7 Construction Site of the Project

3km, Changchun-Baicheng Highway, Changchun City.

1.8 The On-going Condition of Project

Planning, land and other preliminary work and Nine Accesses and One Leveling infrastructure supporting construction has been completed.

2 Introduction to Project Undertaker

2.1 Basic Conditions

Name of project undertaker: Changchun Luyuan Economic Development Zone

Legal address: 3km, Changchun-Baicheng Highway, Changchun City

Legal representative: Hou Wei

Corporate ownership form: State-owned

2.2 Overview of Project Undertaker

Changchun Luyuan Economic Development Zone is a provincial development zone established by getting the approval of Jilin Provincial Government on June 30, 2003, which enjoys the preferential policy of provincial development zone and has four functional areas of advanced manufacturing, logistics trade, food and medicine and railway vehicles. The development zone is adjacent to Changchun downtown, the traffic is convenient and fast, Beijing-Harbin, Changchun-Baicheng Railways and Changchun-Baicheng, Changchun-Zhengzhou provincial high-speed highways cross through the border. Changchun Ring Expressway has two exits within the border. It takes 40 minutes driving from ChangchunLongjiaInternationalAirport to the Development Zone. Changchun, Southern Changchun and Datun Railway Freight Depots are less than 10km from the Development Zone.

At present, the Industrial Development Zone has 17 main plant's supporting enterprises including school-run welding and riveting factory of Changchun Passenger Car Plant, Changchun Hexin Boiler Manufacture Co., Ltd., Railway Vehicle Accessory Plant of Changchun Hexin Boiler Manufacture Co., Ltd. and Changchun Yan'ao Electric Company. The railway vehicles functional division (Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone) in Luyuan Economic Development Zone has planning area of 51km², including finished automobile assembly area 5km², detection maintenance area 3km², industrial supporting area 29km², and living service supporting area 14km². After construction of this division is completed, annual production capacity of 1,000 CRHs, 1,200 urban rail passenger cars and 500 railway vehicles as well as annual production value of 50 billion yuan will be realized, it will become one high-speed transit and urban rail vehicle manufacturing, export and maintenance base that tops in production capacity, product level, test detection capacity and maintenance capacity in the world.

Wang Zheng, male, Member of Committee, Luyuan District, Changchun City, Jilin Province, and Secretary Party Working Committee of Luyuan Economic Development Zone.

2.3 Contact Method

Postal Code: 130113

Contact Person: Ma Mingxing (Director) of the Economic Cooperation Bureau of Lvyuan District, ChangchunCity

Tel: 0431-87886789

 

Contact Person of the City (Prefecture) of the Project: Lou Huimin

Tel: 0431-82715338

Fax: 0431-82715338

E-mail: cc82715338@126.com

Website: www.ccmbc.com