Beijing to build one-hour to eight-hour transport circles

On August 12, reporters learned from the Ministry of Railways that at present China’s passenger railway lines have reached over 10,000 kilometers in length. In 2012, 13,000 kilometers of passenger railway lines and inter-city rail will be in operation, and a "four vertical and four horizontal" system for the national express passenger transport network will be complete. By then, one to eight-hour transport circles with Beijing as its center, to most provincial capitals, will have been formed, and a system of “leaving in the morning and returning in the evening” will be available over 1,000 kilometers and “leaving in the evening and arriving in the morning” will be available over 2,000 kilometers.

The transport circles will consist of: the one-hour transport circle catering for Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Zhangjiakou and Chengde; the two-hour transport circle catering for Zhengzhou, Jinan and Taiyuan; the three-hour transport circle catering for Nanjing, Hefei, Hohhot, Baotou, Changchun and Dalian; the four-hour transport circle catering for Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Xi’an and Harbin; the five-hour transport circle catering for Nanchang, Changsha, Chongqing, Chengdu, Lanzhou and Ningbo, and the six- and seven-hour transport circles catering for Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Guiyang, Yinchuan and Xining.

Translated by LOTO