Beijing’s new ring road to run 1,000km
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BEIJING’S biggest and newest planned road will run for almost 1,000 kilometers, and take you back to exactly where you started from.
The layout of China’s capital is becoming more like a vortex, with six rings radiating outwards — and now a seventh is planned with a length of 940km. Around 90 percent of the 7th Ring Road will pass through neighboring Hebei Province, says Gao Jinhao, director of Hebei’s transport authority.
Officially known as “the Great Beijing Outer Ring Road,” the highway would bypass Langfang, Zhuozhou, Zhangjiakou, and Chengde, in Hebei Province, and shorten journeys between Beijing’s neighbors, Gao says.
According to China Central Television, the new highway is expected to open in 2017, two years later than first announced by officials.
Some netizens mocked the seemingly never-ending development of new rings around the capital.
“From now on people won’t have to ask which province they are from. They just have to ask which ring are they in,” wrote a netizen Soubudaohu.
Another, Meihuomonu, said “gradually, there will be only one city in China — Beijing.”
Some questioned the impact of the new ring road and whether it would encourage motorists to come into Beijing, adding to the already heavy congestion.
Responding to the concerns, Xu Shutong, vice president of the Beijing Capital Highway Development Group, said it would solve traffic problems as well as human resources and logistics problem, and attract industrial development around it.
The road would link highways surrounding Beijing and boost transport development in eastern Beijing, offering new routes for goods moving around Beijing, Tianjin municipality and Hebei Province.
Developers say the road could help disperse suspended particulates in the air in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei zone, the most heavily polluted region in China, as the new highway would divert trucks away from the periphery of Beijing.
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