Urban Rail Transit Construction and Regional Economic Development in China

Abstract

The development of urban rail transit is a cause which should need huge investment. The current Chinese urban rail transit infrastructure is mainly manifested as an act of government investment. If inappropriately, it will not only cause a huge waste of money and a heavy financial burden upon the government, but also can be more likely to lead to a serious imbalance of the allocation of resources, so as to undermine the coordinated development of economic sectors, block social progress. From the perspective of sustainable urban development, the problems between the current urban rail transit and regional economic development was analyzed so as to reveal the relationship between the urban rail transit and regional economic development. The results show that the correct understanding of the economic construction of urban rail transit properties, promote and coordinate the relationship between the urban rail transit planning and economic development, can make China's urban rail transit construction and regional economic coordinated development The urban rail transit was characterized by a big amount of the transportation, safety, punctuality, saving energy, the high use of room and so on. It was recognized by the world-wide that the solution to the rail transit needs to be given priority to the development of it rather than other transportation tool in the transit system. In China, the urban rail transit not only had brought the solid transportation public more conveniently, but also it had been a significant symbol transportation modernization as well. Especially the best solution to get rid of traffic problem was to develop the public rail transit to the heavy loaded traffic in China. Meanwhile, the urban rail transit played a vital role in promoting the urban economy, improving the city ecological environment, optimizing the urban structure, and developing the regional economy which was coordinated with one another. With the increasing development of economy and the constant improvement of urbanization in China, the facilities of the urban rail transit had been rapidly developed as well. At present, there were some problems on the urban rail transit development plan and scale making urban rail