An official with the Beijing Railway Bureau has revealed they're working on plans to create some 800 kilometres worth of railway lines through the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region this year.
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This would be around one-tenth of all planned railway construction for the whole of China this year.
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An executive with the Beijing Railway Bureau says their main priority is to complete the Beijing-Tianjin inter-city railway which will be extended to the Binhai New Area in Tianjin.
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The project is scheduled to be finished by September.
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A high-speed train link between Beijing and the city of Zhangjiakou is also part of the plan.
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That link will cross through the Badaling area of the Great Wall.
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Beijing and Zhangjiakou are currently applying to co-host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Other railway construction plans this year in the BTH region include the Beijing-Baoding line and the Zhangjiakou-Tangshan line.