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Infrastructure
Air
Guangxi’s airports include Nanning Wuwei, Guilin
Lianghe, Beihai Fucheng, Liuzhou Baihe, and the much
smaller Baise Tianyang and Quzhou Cheung Chau Island.
Rail
Guangxi’s railway network, which has long lagged behind that
of neighboring provinces, is currently undergoing development
and expansion. e province plans to spend RMB300 billion
on railway construction between 2011 and 2015.
is project is integrally connected to Guangxi’s
development of trade with ASEAN. e province plans
to accelerate the construction of a high-speed railway from
Nanning to Singapore via Vietnam as the groundwork for the
Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor.
e rst step of this is a railway segment between Nanning
and Pingxiang, a city near China’s border with Vietnam. e
larger Corridor is planned to encompass Hanoi in Vietnam,
Vientiane in Laos, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Bangkok in
ailand, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and Singapore.
Ports and Waterways
Guangxi’s main port is at Beibuwan (Gulf of Tonkin),
which lies just o the coast of northeastern Vietnam and has
an annual goods throughput approximately equal to that of
Guangdong’s Zhanjiang and Fujian’s Xiamen combined (119
million tons). e province plans to raise the capacity of the
port to over 330 million tons by the end of 2015, according to
Guangxi’s “Development Plan” and Xinhua News Agency. In
2011, it invested heavily in terminal and navigation channel
projects with the goal of turning the port into a hub for
ASEAN trade.
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Infrastructure
Air
Guangxi’s airports include Nanning Wuwei, Guilin
Lianghe, Beihai Fucheng, Liuzhou Baihe, and the much
smaller Baise Tianyang and Quzhou Cheung Chau Island.
Rail
Guangxi’s railway network, which has long lagged behind that
of neighboring provinces, is currently undergoing development
and expansion. e province plans to spend RMB300 billion
on railway construction between 2011 and 2015.
is project is integrally connected to Guangxi’s
development of trade with ASEAN. e province plans
to accelerate the construction of a high-speed railway from
Nanning to Singapore via Vietnam as the groundwork for the
Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor.
e rst step of this is a railway segment between Nanning
and Pingxiang, a city near China’s border with Vietnam. e
larger Corridor is planned to encompass Hanoi in Vietnam,
Vientiane in Laos, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Bangkok in
ailand, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and Singapore.
Ports and Waterways
Guangxi’s main port is at Beibuwan (Gulf of Tonkin),
which lies just o the coast of northeastern Vietnam and has
an annual goods throughput approximately equal to that of
Guangdong’s Zhanjiang and Fujian’s Xiamen combined (119
million tons). e province plans to raise the capacity of the
port to over 330 million tons by the end of 2015, according to
Guangxi’s “Development Plan” and Xinhua News Agency. In
2011, it invested heavily in terminal and navigation channel
projects with the goal of turning the port into a hub for
ASEAN trade.
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