Capital's new ring road will boost region's integrated development

WITH THE LAST SECTION OF A HIGHWAY ENCIRCLING the capital opened to traffic on Monday noon, Beijing's Seventh Ring Road has been completed. Beijing News comments:

The last section of the ring road connects Tongzhou and Daxing districts in the southeast of Beijing and neighboring Sanhe city in Hebei province, which will effectively ease the traffic pressure between Beijing's downtown and these places, where at least 1 million commuters live.

The completion of the last section of the 940-kilometer expressway marks the closing of the G95 ring road. The expressway, most of which passes through Hebei, will help to boost the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei - a development strategy considered of national importance by the central authorities - by promoting the flow of talent, capital, information and goods in the region and promoting the development of Hebei, which is relatively less developed than Beijing and Tianjin.