At 9:16 a.m. on April 8, as excavators, bulldozers and loaders started up simultaneously, the temporary works construction of the Sanming Girder Fabrication Yard for the track-laying and girder-erection works of Section NLZQ-3 of the Nanlong Railway, undertaken by the Sixth Engineering Co. of China Railway No.5 Bureau Group Co., Ltd., got underway. The yard is located in the Haixi Development Zone on Jinquan Road, Sha County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, covering an area of about 164 mu (including the office and living area). It has 32 girder fabrication pedestals, with a maximum production capacity of 150 spans per month and a maximum girder storage capacity of 275 spans.

　　The Nanlong Railway is designed as a national Class I double-track continuous welded rail line across sections, with a maximum design passenger train speed of 200 km/h. Section NLZQ-3 is located in Nanping, Sanming and Yong'an cities in the central-northern part of Fujian Province. It starts from the Hefei end of the Hefei-Fuzhou Railway and passes through Sha County, Sanming and Yong'an, with a newly built main line length of 147.285 km. The main works undertaken by the Sixth Engineering Co. of China Railway No.5 Bureau Group Co., Ltd. include: prefabrication and erection of 1,117 spans of T-shaped girders, laying of 292.01 km of main line track and 34.02 km of station track, laying of 72 sets of turnouts, laying of 604,077 m3 of ballast, and prefabrication of 142,666 double-block sleepers; the construction involves 55 bridges totaling 24,361 linear meters, and ballastless track in 7 tunnels and 1 medium bridge, with a total track-laying length of 92.731 km; the section involves 5 stations (3 newly built: Nanping West Station, Sanming South Station and Yong'an South Station; and 2 existing stations utilized: Nanping North Station and Sanming North Station).