Beijing will accelerate rail construction this year and plans to open seven new urban rail transit lines (sections), including the Winter Olympics Branch Line (western section of Line 11), setting a new record for the number of urban rail lines opened in Beijing; with 54.5 kilometers of new operating mileage, Beijing's total urban rail transit operating mileage will exceed 780 kilometers.

This was learned by reporters at the Beijing Municipal Transport Work Conference held on the 1st.

The Beijing transport authorities said that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing's total rail transit operating mileage reached 1,091.6 kilometers, including 726.9 kilometers of urban rail transit and 364.7 kilometers of suburban railways; average daily passenger volume exceeded 10 million, with a peak of more than 13.49 million, and the travel share rate exceeded that of surface public transport.

During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing's expressway mileage reached 1,173 kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 19.5%. Beijing accelerated the construction of Winter Olympics transport projects. The Beijing-Lhasa Expressway and Qinghe transport hub were completed and put into operation. Major repair projects such as Songyan Road, a local road providing access to the Yanqing competition zone of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, were completed ahead of schedule, and all supporting road facilities for the Winter Olympics are ready.

The transport authorities said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing will accelerate the building of a modern comprehensive transport system, the "rail-connected Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" will be smoother and more convenient, and rail transit mileage will reach 1,600 kilometers, with the development level of intelligent, safe, green and shared transport significantly improved.

Of the 1,600 kilometers of rail transit mileage, urban rail transit will reach 1,000 kilometers and suburban railways 600 kilometers. Among them, in 2021, Beijing will open seven new urban rail transit lines (sections), including the Winter Olympics Branch Line (western section of Line 11), the first phase of Line 19, and the remaining section of Line 14, adding 54.5 kilometers of operating mileage.

Reporters learned that the snowboard and big air skiing competitions of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in the Shougang Industrial Park. As a supporting project for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the Winter Olympics Branch Line starts from Jinding Street Station in the north and ends at Shougang Station in the south, with full underground laying, and is about 4.2 kilometers long.

The Winter Olympics Branch Line project did not stop work during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox. At present, the main structure construction of the stations is underway, and the main structures of all four stations are expected to be completed in May this year.

In addition, the transport authorities said that this year Beijing will build a networked intelligent public transport dispatch system based on "Beidou + 5G", and more than 80% of lines will achieve regional intelligent dispatch and departure. The Beijing section of the Yanchong Expressway, which connects the two major competition zones of the Beijing Winter Olympics and runs from Yanqing District in Beijing to Chongli District in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, will be built into a vehicle-road cooperation demonstration project.