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Ministry of Housing and Construction: Vigorously Develop Rail Transit

Time:2013-09-25


According to news from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on the 16th, Qiu Baoxing, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said in an interview with the media on the release of the "Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening Urban Infrastructure Construction" that the opportunity should be lost to vigorously develop rail transit and promote the development of public transportation. He said that in recent years, my country's urban rail transit has developed rapidly. Some large cities and megacities have actively planned and constructed urban rail transit under the increasingly serious traffic congestion. To a certain extent, the phenomenon of "subway fever" has appeared. However, even if all the rail transit lines currently in operation, under construction and approved planning are put into operation, they are only about 50% of some urban agglomerations with large population density in the European Union. There is still huge room for development in the planning and construction of rail transit in my country. Before the current urban residents have not fully formed the habit of relying on cars to travel, we should lose no time to vigorously develop rail transit, promote the development of public transportation, and accelerate the formation of residents' green travel habits. He said that my country will strive to achieve the double goals of 95% of the national urban public water supply penetration rate and water quality standards by 2015. Regarding the treatment of domestic waste, Qiu Baoxing said that in 2012, the harmless treatment capacity of municipal domestic waste in cities across the country reached 446000 tons per day, the harmless treatment capacity was 0.145 billion tons, and the harmless treatment rate was 84.8. At present, the growth of processing capacity has exceeded the growth of production. According to this growth rate, the goal of 90% harmless treatment rate of cities established at the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" can be achieved, and the "garbage siege" is expected to be further alleviated.