BEIJING, June 8 -- China will invest 700 billion yuan into railway construction this year and continue to speed up development of rail transportation, according to the 2010 China (Changchun) Internation Rail Transit and Urban Development Forum.
China has 10,000 kilometers of high-speed railway under construction at present, including the Beijing-Harbin, Harbin-Dalian, Hefei-FuZhou, Beijing-Wuhan, ShangHai-NingBo and many other lines. The government plans to add 4,613 kilometers of new lines, according to He Huawu, chief engineer for the Ministry of Railways and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
In addition to further expanding and improving the layout of the railway network, China will expand the scale of the western road network and perfect the structure of the central and eastern road network.
(Source: People's Daily Online)
