{"id":723328,"date":"2026-08-01T20:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723328\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:24:25","slug":"china-sets-95-transport-goal-for-2030-focusing-on-efficiency-and-shielding-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723328\/","title":{"rendered":"China sets 95% transport goal for 2030, focusing on efficiency and shielding supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China aims to make its transport systems even more expansive and efficient in the next five years, setting a goal to complete 95 per cent of its core national transport network by 2030.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After blanketing the country in railways, expressways, airports and seagoing canals to reach a 91 per cent completion rate, the push for the next 4 percentage points raises questions for the world\u2019s second-largest economy: what\u2019s left to build, and how are massive projects being justified when the nation\u2019s most economically vibrant regions are already connected?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing\u2019s resolve to sustain such a connectivity buildout of transport arteries comes even as China already boasts the world\u2019s longest high-speed rail and canal networks, and one of the longest road networks.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, the country\u2019s infrastructure push extends beyond transport. Following a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/policy\/article\/3362364\/chinas-politburo-pledges-policy-support-spending-counteract-sluggish-growth?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">meeting on Thursday<\/a>, the Communist Party\u2019s Politburo, a major decision-making body led by President Xi Jinping, underscored the need to advance construction of the \u201csix networks\u201d \u2013 a broad infrastructure initiative covering water, power, computing, next-generation telecommunications, underground utilities and logistics networks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The following is a breakdown of the planning, rationale and key projects for the period through 2030.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is the 2030 completion target?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s Ministry of Transport announced the 95 per cent completion goal at a press briefing last week hosted by the State Council Information Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China aims to make its transport systems even more expansive and efficient in the next five years, setting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5713,84,891,239074,1294,10427,68250,5801,239073,132116,68245,239075,5752,85411,239072,172162,56,54,55,203735],"class_list":["post-723328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese-counties","tag-economy","tag-guangdong","tag-guangxi-zhuang-autonomous-region","tag-heilongjiang-province","tag-inner-mongolia-autonomous-region","tag-ministry-of-transport","tag-nanning","tag-pearl-river","tag-shanghai","tag-sichuan","tag-state-council-information-office","tag-tibet","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xinjiang-uygur-autonomous-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}