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China´s Rail network to grow by 3,000 km
Almost 40 cities in China are building or planning to add 3,000 km of urban rail lines, a report released by the Development Research Center of the State Council has said.
About 1,700 km will be laid and operational in 15 cities by 2015, as other cities anticipate a green light from the central government, the report said.
The projects are expected to cost at least 600 billion yuan ($88 billion), the report said.
The unprecedented scale of urban rail construction is integral to meeting domestic demand, Liu Shijin, deputy chief of the center, told a symposium on urbanization and rail transit development last Friday.
Insiders said most ongoing rail transit construction projects were approved in 1999, when some of China’s mega-cities were confronted with problems associated with rapid urbanization, a swelling population and worsening traffic … CD
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