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A
comprehensive
transport network reaching all
directions will be built so that the coastal open trade
areas and special economic zones will be able to play
their leading and distributive roles. The economy of
the mountair regions will be developed and the
interchange of goods between cities and villages
promoted.
2.1.5
2.1.6
The total number of passenger trips within the Province
in 1985 was 496 m and it is forecast that in 1990, the
figure will reach 770 m, with an average annual increase
of 9.2%. By the year 2000, it will reach 1.51 bn, with
an average annual increase of 7%. Freight transport in
1985 totalled 535 m tonnes and it is forecast that in
1990 it will reach 730 m tornes, with an average annual
increase of 6.4%. by the year 2000, it will reach 1.18
bn tornes, with an average annual increase of 5%.
Passenger and freight transport within the Province at
present is concentrated OC a number of major corridors
Guangzhou-Shaoguan corridor,
Guangzhou-Shenzher corridor, the East Guangdong corridor
and the West Guangdong corridor.
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2.1.7
The
Guangzhou-Shenzhen
corridor
is ir the prosperous
Pearl River Delta region. It is also the main route for the import and export trace of China with Pong kong and
other overseas courtries.
The coastal ports of
Guangdong serves bot Guangdong aró other provinces.
Preliminary
estimates
indicate
that
the
Guargzhou-Shenzhen corridor, which carried 14.27 m
tonnes of goods in 1985, will carry about 20 m tonnes in
1990, with an average annual increase or 7%; and 38 m
tonnes in the year 2000, with an average annual increase
oi 6.6%.
Export of goods via Sherzhen and Hong Kong