"China Encourages Express Railway Transportation" More than 20 railwaytransportation lines totaling some 2,000 kilometers are planned for a dozen Chinese cities, said officials with the Ministryof Construction. Railway transportation includes urban express railways, subways, light rails, and trolley cars. Beijing,Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuhan, and Changchun are all planning to build such a network to conquer the traffic jams and seriouspollution caused by the rapid increase of the urban population and the number of automobiles in China. The network will havethe advantages of cleanliness, security, punctuality, high speed, and large transport capacity, said the officials. Financialand technological factors have hampered the development of such a system over the past three decades, and there are now onlyabout 90 km of underground lines in the country with some 600 subway trains in use. Now, however, Beijing alone is planningto build a railway system composed of 13 main routes and two extensions lines totaling 408 km, and increase the railwaytransport proportion to 50 percent from the present 15 percent, according to local officials. China's first urban railwayline was in Beijing and began test operations in October 1969, and the second, in Tianjin, was open to traffic in December1984. “中國高速鐵路運輸鼓勵：”超過20鐵路交通運輸線共約2000公里，對12個城市的計劃，稱該部官員施工。鐵路運輸包括城市的高速鐵路，地鐵，輕軌，汽車和手推車。北京，上海，重慶，武漢，長春都計劃建立這樣一個網絡，以征服和嚴重交通堵塞造成的污染，城鎮人口的迅速增長和在中國汽車數量。該網絡將有保持環境清潔，安全，準時，高速的優勢，大型運輸能力，官員說。財政和技術因素影響，在過去30年來，這一系統的發展，現時只有約90公里在該國的地下線路，共有600多名在使用地鐵列車。然而，現在僅在北京一規劃建立鐵路系統的13個主要航線和兩條支線共408公里線路組成，並增加鐵路交通百分之五十的比例從目前的百分之十五，據當地官員。中國的第一個城市鐵路線在北京和1969年10月開始試運行，第二，在天津，在12月通車1984。
