[photopress:Foshan_subway.jpg,full,alignright]Guangdong’s long-awaited Guangzhou-Foshan subway project will start in June. It is the country’s first underground rail project linking two major cities in the southern Chinese province.
The Foshan government has a task force led by Mayor Chen Yunxian to attract overseas investment for the project and move it forward. Chen said his city pinned much hope on the intercity subway to further economic ties with Guangzhou, a trade and logistics hub in South China, and other prosperous cities in the Pearl River Delta. He said, ‘Foshan, a major manufacturing base in the Pearl River Delta, needs to team up with other cities in the region to increase its competitiveness and prominence in the globalizing world.’
The subway will cost more than RMB14.7 billion and will run for 32.16 kilometers and include a train maintenance base and two transformer substations.
The line is expected to be completed in five years and will have 21 stations. It will run through the Chancheng and Nanhai districts of Foshan and the Liwan and Haizhu districts of Guangzhou. It will also connect with Guangzhou’s subway network in the western part of the Guangdong provincial capital city.
Source: China Daily