By Huang Jian Zhi, Deputy Director of Shanghai Municipal Construction and Management Division

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In recent years, the construction pace of infrastructure facilities has been incessantly expedited. A suburban highway network consisting of "one loop and ten rays" has basically taken shape. The rapid mainline road construction in suburbs featuring suburban loops has achieved marked results. The construction of the network connecting highways of various districts and counties in Shanghai with those of adjacent provinces and cities is in full swing. The rapid transit construction in suburbs is officially initiated. The housing construction in countryside changed from increases in quantity to improvement in quality. By 2001, the total mileage of suburban highways amounts to more than 4200km, and a traffic network with national and provincial mainline highways taken as its framework and with county and village (town) highways taken as its branches has taken shape. The percentage of villages and towns using running water amounts to 100%. The percentage of countryside using hygienic toilets exceeds 90%. Over 86% population in Suburbs uses liquefied gas or gas. Program-controlled telephones are universally used in villages and towns. Cable TV and vide-band networks are available in new farmers' villages.

In accordance with the master plan of the city of Shanghai, and the development strategy of building up "one dragon head "and "four centers", seeing from the angle of the development trend of "integrating countryside with cities" as advanced by the municipal Party Committee as well as the municipality of Shanghai, and in order to strengthen the converging and diverging functions of the city of Shanghai and to expedite both the pattern change and layout change of this city as well as the town construction in suburbs, a strategic adjustment and shift from the CBD towards Suburbs is implemented now or will be implemented in a period to come in the infrastructure facility construction in the city of Shanghai. The infrastructure facility construction in Suburbs in faced with an unprecedented development opportunity and will become "a key item" in a new round of urban construction in Shanghai.

Next, l would like to present the relevant situation in terms of two aspects:

I. Overall Framework of Infrastructure Facility Construction in Suburbs

The master development plan of the city of Shanghai of this city is composed of four levels the central city, new city, central town and ordinary town. In a period to come, the trial construction of "one city and nine towns" will be taken as a key item in the suburban development of Shanghai, thus promoting the infrastructure facility construction in suburbs with high standards, with expediting the traffic network construction in suburbs especially emphasized. Completed power supply, running water supply, water supply and drainage, environmental control, landscape, trash collection, information systems and other comprehensive systems are formed expeditiously and the urban and town infrastructure facility system for extremely large-sized international metropolises is built with efforts. thus striving to ensure that over 60% regions in suburbs become cities or towns in 2005.

The construction of a batch of "hub-typed, function--typed and networked" key infrastructure facilities including "Three Harbors and Two Networks" (i.e., deep-water harbor, air harbor, information harbor. highway network and rapid transit network) etc, is or will be in full swing in Suburbs By 2005, Shanghai will initially establish its position of an international shipping center, an air hub of the Asia-pacific region and a key communication hub.

Prior to 2005, a rapid transit network with a total mileage of about 200km including the demonstration operation line of magnetic trains as well as the suburban rapid transit lines leading to Songjiang, Minhang and Baoshan etc, will be completed, thus basical1y forming a rapid transit network consisting of " a cross plus 8 loop" and several rays.

By 2005, 500 km highways will be newly constructed or reconstructed A suburban loop will be completed constructed. A highway network within the city of Shanghai targeted at "153060", connecting its CBO with key industrial zones (it Will take less than 15 minutes to finish any single highway journey in any single suburb except for Chongming island it will take less than 30 minutes to finish any single journey by car from new cities in Suburbs to the CBD or between industrial zones to the CBD. Any single car trip between any two points in suburbs will not exceed 60 minutes)

The construction of river-crossing facilities .s expedited so that the river-crossing traffic is balanced. The construction of the river-crossing tunnels along the outer ring line will be completed in Suburbs in 2003. By 2005, the construction of the river-crossing project along Jiajin highway will be completed, Later on, the Zhongchun Road and Jianchuan Road river-crossing projects will be constructed.

The Action Plan of Environmental Protection in Shanghai Suburbs from 2003 to 2005 will be implemented to the full. The environmental construction and protection will be further strengthened in suburbs thus building national garden cities and actively building up new appearances of natural environments of "blue sky, green land, clean water and good residences" in suburbs. By 2005.the woodland area in Suburbs will exceed 1 mlll1on MU. The percentages of areas covered by woods exceed 20%. The agricultural, industrial and daily-life pollution is brought under control the objective of having "clean river Surface, clean river banks greens. unimpeded water flows and clean water" for Suburban rivers are basically realized.

In order to adapt to both the adjustment of the layout of industries in Shanghai and the urbanization pace of suburbs, the infrastructure facility construction in nine big ndustna1 zones at the city level, which has been ratified by the Municipality, is stepping into the fast traffic lane. The accumulated capital investments of the infrastructure construction in these nine industrial zones amount to 10 million RMB yuan, approximately. At Present, the standard of having "Seven Openness and One Flat", i.e. open water pipelines, open electricity lines, gas pipelines, roads, heat pipelines, communication pipelines and polluted water pipelines, etc. has been entirely satisfied. As a next step, we will continue to increase the investment and expedite the progress, thus further perfecting the infrastructure facility construction in industrial zones.

II. Infrastructure Facility Construction and Public Facility Construction in the course of Urbanization in Suburbs

i) Public Transport Facility Construction

The range covered by the public transport services in suburbs is enlarged. and the public transport services in suburbs are improved in quality. The passenger transport centers between the urban city and its Suburbs are gradually shifted towards the rapid transit. Any new city is connected with any central town via one transfer. Any two adjacent new cities are connected with each other by one transfer. Any new city is connected with any central town to which the former is subordinate or any ordinary town by one transfer.

Comprehensive Passenger transport service centers, which have the functions of the transport. Between ports, urban and suburban transport, regional transport and public transport services within urban districts. are built in new cities, Passenger transport bus sta1ion which undertake regional transports as well as urban and suburban transports and other public transport service functions are built in ordinary towns. In accordance with 1helr different development situation, cities are equipped with a number of squares and public parking places.

ii) Highway Network and Road Construction in Cities and Towns

The planned mainline highway network links all the important connection points. The connection highways between new cities, central towns, important industrial zones, traffic hubs of passengers and freight transportation, highways and first-c1ass highways are better than second-class highways so as to ensure that the highway network can be entered within 15 minutes before being connected with the central city, The mainline highways link over 90 percent ordinary towns and cover over 95 percent of the population in cities and towns.

The roads in cities and towns are constructed in accordance with the design criteria for urban roads. thus a complete and functional road network system together with road block-free facilities are filled up. Traffic signs are arranged in accordance with the new standards defined by the municipal traffic management department

iii) Gardening and Afforestation Construction

In new cities, the percentage of green lands is greater than 35 percent, the greening coverage percentage is greater than 40 percent, the green area per capita is more than 40 square meters and the area of pubic green lands per capita is not less than 10 square meters. A park with over 20 hectares needs to be built in a new city. The percentage of green lands per unit is greater than 30 percent. The radius of the public greening service is 400 meters.

In cities and towns, the percentage of green lands is greater than 30 percent The greening lands is greater than 30percent, the greening coverage percentage is greater than 35 percent, the green area per capita is more than 35square meters and the area of public green lands per capita is not less than 8 square meters. A park with over 10 hectares at the town level is built in each town

iv) Cityscape and Sanitation Facility Construction

The daily-life trash in new cities and central towns is collected and processed through classification. Gradually, the volume thereof is reduced and it becomes resourceful and innocuous. By 2005, the rate of utilizing the resources thereof and that of the innocuous treatment thereof will reach 60 percent and 90 percent respectively. By 2010, the same two rates will reach 75 percent and 100 percent respectively. On new cities, independent trash collecting facilities by classification are installed, daily-life trash treatment yards (facilities) are built and small-sized collection and compression stations of daily--life trash or biochemical treatment machines are installed at part of the residential areas. Daily--trash relay stations with the functions of separate gathering and collection through classification are installed in central towns. Daily-life trash is shipped for being processed to adjacent comprehensive trash treatment plants (factories) in the same district (county).

In ordinary towns, trash collection by classification should be gradually implemented. Fixed trash collection places or litter boxes should be installed at market or trade places or other places where streams of people gather and scatter. Mechanic and hermetic trash transport will be gradually implemented. In connection with adjacent countryside, small-sized and simple organic trash and manure plants are built so as to process the organic trash on site. In terms of manure storage tanks, the manure tanks installed with polluted water treatment facilities should be integrated into the  polluted water treatment plants. For the newly planned, reconstructed and relocated public toilets, no toilets or dry toilets without qualified classes should be installed. For areas with Suitable conditions, ecological public toilets can bebuilt tentatively.

v) Water Supply, Drainage System and Underground Pipeline Network Construction

The headwaters of newly-built water works should come from the upper reaches of the Huangpu River or reservoirs of the Yangtze River so as to facilitate the centralized management and protection of water head areas. By 2005, the water quality of the supplied water will meet the Sanitary Criterion for Daily-used Drinkable Water as set by the Ministry of Sanitation as well as the Water Quality Target as set by the Municipal Construction and Management Commission in 2000. By 2010, the present-day water quality standard in advanced countries will be basically satisfied. Reconstructed and newly-constructed water plants together with auxiliary pipeline networks will be constructed according to the water quality target in 2010.

In terms of sewage drainage, rain is separated from sewage collection and treatment. Systems will be built and perfected in suburbs. The method of centralized management of separated zones is mainly adopted in sewage treatment. The newly-built sewage treatmen1 plants has to meet the relevant sewage drainage standards. At the same time, the existing sewage treatment plants are gradually reconstructed to meet the standards. By 2005, the rate of sewage collection at urbanized regions will reach 60 percent and the rate of sewage treatment thereat will reach 50 percent. By 2010,both the rate of sewage collection and sewage treatment thereat will reach 80 percent.

For new cities and newly-built city d1stncts with suitable conditions. common pits shared by various pipelines can be built based on the principle of "planning at one time and implementing at several stages." No newly-installed pipelines of various kinds can be installed overhead in new cities or central towns. They should be embedded underground. The existing overhead pipelines should be embedded simultaneously in connection with road, green land and other municipal engineering construction.

vi) Residential Area Construction in Cities and Towns

Water Supply: Pipelines for high-quality water and pure water as well as other technologies should be used in newly-built residencies in new cities and central towns.

Rain and Sewage Drainage Treatment, Rain collection and intermediate water recycling technologies should be tentatively used.

Power Supply: Embedding and laying cables underground, container-typed substations and other technologies as well as the method of calculating the electricity charge according to different time period are popularized and applied.

Gas Supply: For residential areas accessible to gas networks of peripheral or adjacent roads laying of both indoor and outdoor residential gas pipelines as well as the connection with outdoor gas pipelines should be completed. For residential areas inaccessible to gas networks of peripheral or adjacent roads, the laying of indoor residential gas pipelines should be completed In accordance with the standard of natural gas supply The calculations of the consumption of gas consumers are implemented in an intelligent way.

Trash Collection and Treatment: Daily-life trash in newly--built residences is collected and treated by classification. Classified litter boxes (barrels) and daily-life trash collection and compression stations are installed. Biochemical Ladles and gentlemen, the infrastructure facilities in Shanghai suburbs are expeditiously constructed in accordance with international standards. We have reasons to believe that the first-class infrastructure facilities around the world will surely be built in Shanghai suburbs after making efforts. If some of our guests, businessmen and friends make investments in Shanghai suburbs. they will surely find them convenient and expeditious. They will surely enjoy ecological environments with more superior quality. They will surely get more remuneration.

trash treatment technologies are popularized, thus treating organic trash on site.

Thank you.