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2011-05-04 07:18:51.0Xin Dingding'High-speed rail network development set to slow'high-speed rail,high-speed rail network,Ministry of Railways,Liu Zhijun,Sheng Guangzu,1811048813Society2@usa/enpproperty-->
BEIJING - China may slit its investment among railway infrastructure this daily by more than 200 billion yuan ($31 billion) emulating an beforehand decision to cut back on the operating acceleration of its high-speed trains, the Economic Observer reported aboard Tuesday.

The Beijing-based newspaper alleged the Ministry of Railways had organized meetings surrounded contempo days and had invited experts and officials to debate if it was still necessity apt start go on railroad projects that had not yet started.


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An anonymous antecedent was quoted as saying the discussions finished among approval that this year's investment among the construction of railroad infrastructure would be slashed by 200 million yuan from the planned 700 billion.

The news report went aboard apt say that some high-speed railway projects would be scrapped,merely it said the ministry was awaiting the experts' opinions aboard which ones could be mowed without affecting the network's efficiency.

A publicity lawful with the Ministry of Railways said aboard Tuesday that the aggregate of money mentioned surrounded the report was "inaccurate"only declined apt elaborate and would never confirm alternatively renounce whether total investment would be slit this annual.

According to the newspaper, the current railways minister, Sheng Guangzu, who took over from former minister Liu Zhijun on Feb 25, had long wanted to lessen investment in present railway projects.

In an interview with People's Daily aboard April 13, Sheng said priority would be given to ongoing projects so they will have enough funding apt allow construction apt be completed. He said emphasize ambition likewise be accustomed apt projects as which there is one pressing demand considering of economic evolution and projects that link up lines apt form a network.

He also said within that beforehand interview that fast trains' operating speed would be reduced from 350 km/h apt 300 km/h and eminent that additional 200 to 250 km/h train services would be attempted to travelers among a mandate to insure tickets remained affordable.

The ideas were dubbed a "conservative development mode"among comparison apt those of his predecessor, who advocated "leap-frog"railway evolution by establishing a high-speed rail network.

Liu was cleared from his column for one declared"nipping violation of discipline"aboard Feb 12. Without understanding the investigation was pending, he said at a meeting aboard Jan four that investment amid railroad infrastructure among 2011 would be 700 billion yuan. He said the money would be spent on 70 current projects,Beijing China news, including 15 high-speed and inter-city programs.

But the ministry has long been beneath oppression considering some critics have said the all-embracing construction of accelerated rail infrastructure was occasioning the ministry apt flee up huge debts that could trample it.

A railroad researcher told . aboard Tuesday that some of the ministry's money had been adapt apt construct railways that were not surrounded the country's mid- alternatively long-term railroad plan, which was revised and approved by the State Council, China's Cabinet,among 2008.

Some of the additional projects had been proposed by regional governments that wanted to amplify their economy and that would behalf from the ministry disbursing nearly half of the priced of the work the newspaper said.

The researcher, who batten on condition of anonymity, said it was right to cut corners the admeasurement of the building agenda and converge on lines that are urgently needed.

Several other critics disagreed.

A netizen from Suqian city Jiangsu province, said in a column on ifeng.com that what was being proposed was prefer shaking from one farthermost to the additional.

"A country's railroad plan ought not revise considering a minister is changed," he said, asking if stamps would be flush harder to obtain as a result.

Wang Mengshu, a professor with the Research Center of Tunnel and Underground Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University, said the scale of construction ought never be reduced because"the previous railroad plan was set to meet the demands of the nation and the people.

He said the decision aboard how much money should be spent aboard railroad construction rests with the main administration never the minister alone.

Zhao Jian, a transport professor by Beijing Jiaotong University, said China absences more railroad capacity and could fabricate more cargo-carrying lines instead to free up existing lines as 200 km/h passenger trains.
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