Shenzhen has been chosen to be one of 13 areas in the national pilot program to build a country with strong transportation.
Shenzhen and Xiong’an in Hebei Province were the only two cities chosen by the Ministry of Transportation for the program. The other areas were provinces, autonomous regions or provincial-level municipalities, including Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Xinjiang and Chongqing.
At a news conference Monday organized by the transportation ministry, Shenzhen was invited to share its measures to push forward the pilot program.
Through the development in the past decade, Shenzhen has made remarkable progress in transportation, such as building a comprehensive dimensional transport network and integrating regional transportation, and has taken the lead in China in technological innovation and industrial development.
By taking the requirements of the pilot program as a reference, Shenzhen’s transportation system also has shortfalls in several aspects, such as international influence, cross-region coordination and refined urban management.
According to the city’s transport bureau, the city will push forward the program in six aspects: build a high-quality international air transport hub, expedite construction of a high-speed rail network that will radiate to more cities and provinces, build a Metro and intercity rail network, improve the capacity and efficiency of expressways through technological innovation and infrastructure renovation, and promote infrastructure construction that is based on 5G and IoT.
Regarding high-speed railway construction, the city will expedite the construction of Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone and try to enlist the high-speed rails to Nanning, Zhaoqing and Heyuan and the second Guangzhou-Shenzhen high-speed rail into the national railway network plan.
At present, the city’s eight Metro lines, which form a network extending 300 kilometers, handle 6.5 million trips a day.
By 2022, the network will reach 570 kilometers. By 2035, it will exceed 1,000 kilometers and serve 85 percent of all the riders using public transport.