Beijing to focus on low-emission travel

Beijing will build more subway lines this year, as well as roads exclusively for public buses and lanes just for bicycles, providing lower emission means for transportation, local officials said on Friday.

The city will start constructing 16 subway lines with a total length of 300 kilometers, Rong Jun, spokesman for the Beijing Commission of Transport, told a news briefing on Friday.

The length of subway lines will increase to about 1,000 km by 2020 from the current 554 km, Rong said in a previous interview.