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2000 are still under consideration and formulation of

the basic concept (in this respect) bas rot beer

submitted to the People's Govermaert nor the National Feople's Congress of the Province for exarination.

The General Plan for Transport

into

2.1.4 Planning for the development of a general transport

network up to the year 2000 is being carried out. The construction of a province-wide transport network taking

account geographical features,

economic

characteristics, the pace and requirements of social and economic developments and the distribution of industrial

and agricultural production will be expedited.

By the

end of the century, or some time later, a general transport network formed by railroads, sealanes, rivers, highways, civil aviation, pipelines and tunnels will be

built up by stages. The structure of this network will be improved, its layout will be better co-ordinated, its

technology will be more advanced and the various modes

transport will fit in with ore another.

characteristics of this system will be :

(1)

(2)

ot

The

the

Railroads will be the mainstay of the system, with

Guangzhou as its centre, linked to other cities on

Fearl River Leita. Taking advantage of the

of various modes of transport, the

transport system is intended to link up the east and the

west, સૈક well as the coastal and the inland remoter

regions.

characteristics

Railroads and waterways with greater capacity will be

developed to meet the requirements of the economic

development of the province as well as those arising

from the foreign trade of the whole of China.