July 20, 1995 (June 23), seeing in the Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou Railway line through.

1995 20, Yuedong people look forward to a long-Canton (state) Mei Shan (state) (head) railway line through the ten months earlier than the construction period determined by the Guangdong Provincial Government. Stupendous (lsjt.org)
Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou Railway crossing Guangdong Yuedong mountain, advance the Chaoshan plains, passing through 17 cities (counties), the total length of four hundred eighty kilometers. Officially started on May 31, 1991, has been the subject of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Railways attaches great importance to. The nine Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Railways has mobilized seventeen, carried out in conjunction with the the nineteen construction unit of the Guangzhou Railway Engineering Corporation, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-infrastructure companies battle. Railway
GuangMeiShan main line railway joint venture to build a road network in Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Railways. Nearly 60,000 railway construction workers after four years and two months of hard work, a positive line and station line laying five hundred and seventy kilometers, the construction of a large, large and medium-sized bridges one hundred eighty-eight tunnel sixty-eight, culverts two thousand one hundred ninety one, the total amount of fifty million cubic meters of earth and stone. Completion of the construction project investment of nearly 40 billion yuan.