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Yangtze River Delta to Have Inter-city Railway Network
(SinoCast Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)HANGZHOU, Dec 29, 2005 (SinoCast via COMTEX) --Sources from forum on communication of Yangtze River Delta Area said Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway will be built up before 2020.
Besides, China will also build up Shanghai-Hangzhou and Shanghai-Nanjing inter-city high-speed railways before 2010. Then, improved communication network will help to prople integration of Yangtze River Delta.
Yangtze River Delta area is the one of the most energetic areas in China, and the regional planning covers 16 cities around Shanghai within 300 square kilometers.
Experts said the inter-city railways with the speed of over 200 and 300 kilometers per hour will greatly expand the area of integration and city agglomeration.
However, the length of road per 10,000 people in the delta area have is 40.8% of the average level of the whole country, and per 10,000 people in the area just have 0.16 kilometer of railway, at the moment.
From www.sina.com, Page 1, Wednesday, December 28, 2005
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