{"id":614123,"date":"2026-07-31T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/614123\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:33:22","slug":"china-sets-95-transport-goal-for-2030-focusing-on-efficiency-and-shielding-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/614123\/","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":614124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[1793,79,381,259144,179,18,4693,204378,259146,19,105927,17,21763,259145,236170,2792,14968,259143,21767,182587],"class_list":["post-614123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese-counties","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-guangdong","tag-guangxi-zhuang-autonomous-region","tag-heilongjiang-province","tag-ie","tag-inner-mongolia-autonomous-region","tag-ireland","tag-ministry-of-transport","tag-nanning","tag-pearl-river","tag-shanghai","tag-sichuan","tag-state-council-information-office","tag-tibet","tag-xinjiang-uygur-autonomous-region"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117016736947245239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}