Beijing subway to link to Hebei  

北京地铁线将修往河北 将建立半小时通勤圈

据京华时报官方微博消息，在今天召开的北京市十四届人大常委会上，由市政府相关部门提供的宣传片介绍，在京津冀协同发展的背景下，北京的地铁线路将修往河北相关城市。这是官方首次公开这一信息，但未透露具体修建到河北哪座城市。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Beijing will extend its subway to the neighboring Hebei province, the Beijing Times reported Thursday.

A city publicity film released on Thursday at a meeting of the Standing Committee of Beijing Municipal People's Congress said Beijing's subway will link to some cities in Hebei province, based on the central government's plan of integrating Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei into a mega urban cluster.

It is the first time that authorities confirmed the news, but which cities in Hebei will be linked is not specified.

The second phase of Subway Line 6 will extend farther east into Tongzhou District, then its last station Dongxiaoying will be only several kilometers from Yanjiao, in Hebei.

Yanjiao is dubbed "Sleeping Town" on account of its relatively lifeless state during the day. Some 300,000 people make the journey to work in Beijing and return home to sleep in Yanjiao, meaning only 40 percent of the town's population, mostly the elderly and children, are in town during the daytime.

The Langfang government had hoped that the Daxing Line could be extended to its Gu'an county and Yizhuang Line to urban Langfang.