China sets 95% transport goal for 2030, focusing on efficiency and shielding supply chains
Beijing aims to expand nation’s world-leading network coverage, raising questions over need for more infrastructure projects as authorities flag ‘weak links’
China aims to make its transport systems even more expansive and efficient in the next five years, setting a goal to complete 95 per cent of its core national transport network by 2030.
After blanketing the country in railways, expressways, airports and seagoing canals to reach a 91 per cent completion rate, the push for the next 4 percentage points raises questions for the world’s second-largest economy: what’s left to build, and how are massive projects being justified when the nation’s most economically vibrant regions are already connected?
Beijing’s resolve to sustain such a connectivity buildout of transport arteries comes even as China already boasts the world’s longest high-speed rail and canal networks, and one of the longest road networks.