神华重载铁路工程立足于神华集团自身实际需求，致力于重载铁路成套技术研发，着重在重载铁路工程建设技术、重载运输技术、建设运营管理技术3个方面积极开展工程技术创新。系列技术创新不仅推动了神华集团尽快掌握重载铁路核心技术，而且促进了企业快速发展，并取得了显著的社会效益和经济效益。神华铁路走出了一条以企业为主体、以需求为导向，通过打造产、学、研联合体、推行科研项目工程化等手段开展重载铁路技术研究的新路子。

Shenhua heavy haul railway engineering based on its own actual needs, committed to research and develop whole sets of heavy haul railway technology, and focused on launching engineering technology innovation mainly about three aspects: the railway engineering construction technology, heavy-load transportation technology, construction and operation management technology. Series of technology innovation impelled Shenhua Group to master the core technology of overloaded railway as soon as possible, promoted enterprise’s development, and remarkable social benefits and economic benefits had been achieved as well. Shenhua group oriented system for heavy haul railway technological innovation, in which enterprises played the leading role, aiming at market demands, and combined the efforts of enterprises, universities and research institutes, and pursued scientific research project by engineering means.

薛继连（1954— ） ，男，山西大同市人，教授级高级工程师，研究方向为重载铁路及技术管理、地下工程