NDRC: About 10,000 km of inter-city and municipal railways will be built in the three regions in the next five years

China will build about 10,000 kilometers of intercity and suburban railways in the beijing-tianjin-hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Guangdong-hong Kong-macao Bay area in the next five years, the National Development and Reform Commission said Thursday. A few days ago, the National Development and Reform Commission held a special meeting to plan and speed up the planning and construction of intercity and suburban railways in the three regions, and to promote the development of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas on the tracks of the three regions as a whole. The meeting called for sorting out and clarifying the construction projects to start in the next three years, with a total construction scale of about 6,000 kilometers, and basically forming a regional inter-city railway and a city (suburban) railway framework network by 2025, the formation of urban agglomerations 1-2 hours traffic circle and Urban Circle 1 hour commuting circle. Relevant officials of the National Development and Reform Commission said that the Beijing-tianjin-hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Guangdong-hong Kong-macao Bay area are important urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas in China, and that the development of a modern and comprehensive transportation network with rail transportation as its backbone, the conditions are ripe and the demand is urgent. Speeding up the construction of intercity railway and suburban railway is an important support to realize the coordinated development of the three regions and an inevitable measure to make up the regional comprehensive transportation shortage.