China to start ambitious rail line to link city clusters in 5 years (updated)

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04/12/2020 03:42

(Adds details on plan and background)
    BEIJING, Dec 4 (Reuters) - China will start construction of
10,000 kilometres (6,213.7 miles) of intercity and urban railway
over the next five years in Yangtze River Delta, Greater Bay and
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei areas, the state planner said on Friday.
    The Greater Bay area is a region that includes Hong Kong,
Macau and nine cities in China's southern Guangdong province.
    China plans to expand its railway network, the second
largest in the world, by one-third in the next decade and a
half, as part of a long-term plan to rev up urbanisation and
stimulate local economies.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2FF1DU
    The country aims to have about 200,000 kilometres of railway
tracks by the end of 2035, including about 70,000 km of
high-speed railway, according to the plan issued by state-owned
China State Railway Group in August. 
    

 (Reporting by Judy Hua, Lusha Zhang, Ryan Woo and Gabriel
Crossley; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
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