New intercity railway lines to be added

More than 20 intercity lines will be added to the railway map in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the next several decades, according to a report released on Wednesday by regional transportationan evaluation authority.

With an investment of about 615 billion yuan ($96.6 billion), the construction of 24 intercity railways in the region will be completed by 2050, with the total length reaching 3,453 km, the Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corp said in the report.

The 24 lines will crisscross an area of 216,000 square kilometers.