"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. “中国高速铁路运输鼓励：”超过20铁路交通运输线共约2000公里，对12个城市的计划，称该部官员施工。铁路运输包括城市的高速铁路，地铁，轻轨，汽车和手推车。北京，上海，重庆，武汉，长春都计划建立这样一个网络，以征服和严重交通堵塞造成的污染，城镇人口的迅速增长和在中国汽车数量。该网络将有保持环境清洁，安全，准时，高速的优势，大型运输能力，官员说。财政和技术因素影响，在过去30年来，这一系统的发展，现时只有约90公里在该国的地下线路，共有600多名在使用地铁列车。然而，现在仅在北京一规划建立铁路系统的13个主要航线和两条支线共408公里线路组成，并增加铁路交通百分之五十的比例从目前的百分之十五，据当地官员。中国的第一个城市铁路线在北京和1969年10月开始试运行，第二，在天津，在12月通车1984。
