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Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway Project Planned but Not Scheduled

Although the project of Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway has been listed into China's "Tenth Five Year Plan" (2001-2005), the project has not yet been formally filed and the construction not scheduled, according to Sun Yongfu, vice minister of the Ministry of Railways.


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  • Although the project of Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway has been listed into China's "Tenth Five Year Plan" (2001-2005), the project has not yet been formally filed and the construction not scheduled, according to Sun Yongfu, vice minister of the Ministry of Railways.

    The Ministry of Railways has made a lot of feasibility studies on the project but didn't enter into any concrete construction plan. And experts will make deep discussions as to the type of rail lines, i.e. by adopting traditional track or magnetic levitation? Although the latter is fast than the former, so far there is no magnetic line actually put into commercial operation in the world. At present, experts have finished their analyses on the advantages and disadvantages of traditional track and magnetic rail respectively and they will make a comparison on comprehensive benefits between the two technologies.

  • According to Sun, the necessities for building the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway are as follows:

    1. As one of China's developed areas, the area along the Beijing-Shanghai railway is faced with an ever harder conflict between the large demand of transportation market and the current transport capacity;

    2. Passengers have a higher demand on the ��speed, comfort, and safety�� of railway transportation;

    3. The project is a hi-tech subject which will help push forward the development of other industries;

    4. It is necessary to separate the passenger and cargo transportation due to their disparity in speed requirement;

    5. To build the high-speed railway accords with the general trend of railway development in the world.

    Sun also revealed that the demonstration magnetic line linking up Shanghai Pudong Airport and the Longyang station of No2 subway is expected to open to traffic by 2003. By then it will probably become a magnetic line, the first of its kind put into commercial operation in the world.



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    By PD Online staff member Huang Ying

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