More funds set for China’s western areas
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A STATE Council report yesterday said that more government investment will go to large infrastructure projects in west China.
The central government will help western provinces expand railway networks, build arterial highways, upgrade state and provincial highways as well as build new reservoirs, said the report by the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner.
“We will try to solve the problems of road and water supplies that people in the west complain most about,” said Xu Shaoshi, head of the NDRC.
The density of highway and railway networks in the western region is about half the national level. Despite fast economic growth in recent years, the west still lags behind especially in infrastructure and environmental protection.
A number of cities have transport difficulties. It takes about nine hours by train to cover 400 kilometers between Chifeng in Inner Mongolia and Beijing while the high-speed train takes only half an hour from Beijing to Tianjin, about 140 kilometers away.
Investment in transport infrastructure will help forge an international corridor between China, Southeast Asia and Central Asian countries, Xu said.
Meanwhile, investment will continue in oil pipelines linking China with its western neighbors.
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