The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has set ambitious goals for improving its integrated transportation network, with plans to extend high-speed railways and build more highways to aid regional growth.

 

To promote the regional rail system's growth, the three governments and China Railway Corp have together invested 10 billion CNY to form a special company to manage the increasing number of rail projects.

 

Of those rails, work on those linking Beijing to Tangshan in Hebei and to Tianjin's Binhai district will start this year. Construction of another two links connecting Langfang and Zhuozhou, both in Hebei, and the capital airport and Beijing's planned new airport will begin by 2016, the company said.

Company CEO Hao Weiya said the four projects will cost more than 100 billion CNY, of which 1 billion CNY will come from the central government and the rest from other channels.

 

An action by the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Political Bureau requires the governments to make progress in regional integrated transportation, environmental protection and industrial transfer.
 

In response, Hebei will invest 102 billion CNY this year in transportation, 12 percent more than last year, Gao Jinhao, head of Hebei's Transportation Department, said on June 30 when he introduced the province's efforts to improve the integrated transportation system.

 

Under the investment, the province will finish five new highways in 2015, expected to bring the province's total highways to more than 6,300 km, the second most in the country after Guangdong province, according to the department. 

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