Strengthening Investment in Transport Infrastructure to Address the Financial Crisis by Joint Effort

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(TPTMM6) 27-29 April 2009, Manila, Philippines
Strengthening Investment in Transport
Infrastructure to Address the Financial Crisis by
Joint Effort
WANG Zhiguo Vice Minister, Ministry of
Railways Peoples Republic of China
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Development of Chinese Transport System
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In 2008, the operating length of railways ranked
No.3 in the world The operating length of
passenger dedicated railways with a speed over
200 km/h is 1,114 km.
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In 2008, The freight traffic volume, passenger
turnover and converted turnover all ranked No. 1
in the world.
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In 2008, the operating length of expressway
ranked No. 2 in the world.
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In 2008, the number of production berths in major
ports was 48 times of that in 1978. The waterway
carried 240 million passengers, with a passenger
turnover of 7.48 billion passenger.km
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The throughput capacity of ports and container
transport have ranked No.1 in the world for 5
years.
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In 2008, 158 airports were in operation.
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The total turnover of scheduled flight ranked No.
2 in the world in 2005, while in 1978 it only
ranked 37.
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Objectives of Transport Development
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Middle and Long Term Railway Network Plan
National Expressway Network Plan
Construction Plan of Highway in Rural Area
National Seaports Distribution Plan National
Distribution Plan of Inland Water Courses and
Ports National Civil Airports Distribution
Plan Middle and Long Term Integrated Transport
Network Plan.
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By 2020, it is estimated that railway network
will be over 120,000 km, with the electrified
rate over 60 and rate of double lines over 50.
The length of passenger dedicated railways will
be over 16,000 km.
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The highway network will reach 3 million km, not
including the roads within villages, while the
expressway length will be 100,000 km. City rail
length will be 2,500 km. The inland high level
water course will be 19,000 km long.
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There will be 244 civil airports in operation.
the throughput capacity of seaports will be over
6.5 billion tons.
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Measures to Address Financial Crisis
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Since 2003, many major rail projects were
started Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway
Zhengzhou-Xian passenger dedicated line(PDL)
Beijing-Shijiazhuang PDL Shijiazhuang-Wuhan
PDL Wuhan-Guangzhou PDL Wuhan-Hefei-Nanjing
PDL Ningbo-Wenzhou-Xiamen PDL Harbin-Dalian
PDL
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By the end of 2008, construction of 30,000 km new
railway has been approved by the central
government with an investment of 2000 billion
RMB. It is hoped that construction of 20,000 km
more new railways will be approved in 2009 and
2010.
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The investment of railway construction in 2008
was 330 billion RMB. 1,719 kilometers newly built
railways have been put into operation, 1935
kilometers newly doubled railway lines and 1955
kilometers newly electrified railways have been
in operation.
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Have been put into operation Beijing-Tianjin
intercity railways,350 km/h Jinan-Qingdao
PDL,250 km/h Hefei-Nanjing PDL,
Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan PDL
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In 2009, 700.7 billion RMB will be invested in
railway fixed asset, including 600 billion in
infrastructure construction.
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Will be put into operation Zhengzhou to Xian
PDL,350 km/h Wuhan to Guangzhou PDL,250 km/h
Ningbo to Wenzhou to Wenzhou coastal passenger
traffic corridor
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Will be started Shanghai-Kunming PDL
Hefei-Fuzhou PDL Beijing-Shenyang PDL
Xian-Lanzhou PDL
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The 600 billion RMB railway investment in 2009
will create 6 million jobs, a consumption of 20
million tons of steel and 120 million tons of
concrete.
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The investment of 100 billion RMB in purchase of
locomotives and rolling stocks will provide jobs
for 800,000 people and consume 5 million tons of
steel.
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In 2008, the investment in Chinese highway and
waterway infrastructure is about 793 billion RMB.
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100,000 km of highways have been newly built, and
6433 kilometers of them are expressways.
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There are 154 new berths in seaports, among which
89 are capable for the ships of ten thousand
tons, and the throughput capacity has been
increased by 280 million tons. 282 new berths
have been built for the inland ports, among which
21 are capable for the ships of ten thousand
tons. 943 km of inland water route has been
improved.
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In 2009, Chinese Government will speed up the
construction of missing links of inter province
expressway, capacity enlarged intercity highway,
port connecting highway, rural highway, important
trunk course for ports, inland water course and
the reconstruction of transport infrastructure in
post earthquake areas. The estimated investment
will reach 850 billion RMB.
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In 2008, the investment in civil aviation
infrastructure reached 60 billion RMB.
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In 2009, the airport construction, especially the
construction and capacity enlargement of trunk
line airports in Chinese western part as well as
the branch line airports in the middle part of
China, will be the focus of aviation investment,
which is about 100 billion RMB.
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Song as China and all APEC economies hold strong
confidence, strengthen cooperation and fulfill
our commitment, we will overcome the current
difficulties and transform this crisis to an
opportunity for cooperation and joint
development, since this crisis has brought more
investment in transport infrastructure of APEC
region.
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Chinese Government has just declared the
establishment of 10 billion USD ASEAN-China
Investment Cooperation Fund to support the
regional infrastructure construction.
Furthermore, to promote the integration of ASEAN
and regional cooperation, within the coming 3 to
5 years, China will provide ASEAN countries with
15 billion USD credit, including 1.7 billion USD
favourable credit.
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We would like to take APEC as a platform to work
closely in transport sectors with all member
economies, and make our effort for the
establishment of an efficient and
environmental-friendly transport system, and for
the sustainable development of APEC region and
the world by better cooperation and coordination
on key transport issues.
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Thank you!