Fast rail to link Beijing, Tianjin before Games
By Xin Dingding (China Daily)Updated: 2006-11-27 08:51
Siemens and Tangshan Locomotive Plant were reported to win a bid together in
2005 to manufacture 60 locomotives with a designed speed of 300 kmp for the
railway ministry. Of these, three locomotives will be entirely imported from
Siemens, and 57 will be domestically made.
Siemens was also reported to
have won a contract together with two other Chinese companies to provide signal,
telecommunication and electricity supply systems for the high-speed
rail.
In order to promote economic integration of the
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China plans to build a two-hour circle to cover
major cities in the Bohai Rim Region. A total of 710 kilometres of inter-city
rail lines will be built in the region's inter-city rail network before
2020.
The Beijing-Tianjin inter-city passenger rail will serve as an axis
in the regional rail network, to meet the soaring demand of travel between the
cities.
At present, the municipalities, each with a population over 10
million, are linked by highways, expressways and rail. The current railway is
under pressure, handling 25.55 million passengers each year.
The new
passenger rail line is expected to handle 32 million passengers in 2008 and 54
million passengers in 2015.
At present, there are also three expressways
under construction that will link the two cities.
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