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皇冠体育app to have 1,700 km of urban rail lines by 2015

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-08 15:40

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Urban rail transportation would play an increasingly important role in public transportation in Chinese cities, said Liu Shijin, vice director of Development Research Center of the State Council, said at a forum on urbanization and rail transportation Beijing on Friday.

Fifteen major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, have planned the construction of more than 60 urban rail lines recently.

A larger 72 percent of the scheduled new lines are subway projects, 10 percent are light rail, and 8 percent are other rail systems, said Liu, saying that the proportion of urban rail transit would further grow.

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