Shanghai set higher requirements on its comprehensive transportation development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) with many aspects expected to maintain the global lead to speed up building a modern socialist international metropolis, the Shanghai Municipal Government announced at a press briefing on June 8.

Shanghai has worked out a comprehensive transportation development plan that vows to meet the highest international standards.

With 10 major tasks proposed, the plan will not only implement national strategies such as realizing integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region, but also accelerate efforts to peak carbon dioxide emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.

The plan shows that the annual container throughput of Shanghai ports has reached 47 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), leading the world in the service quality as an international shipping hub port.

The city's annual air passenger throughput reached more than 130 million travels at Shanghai's airports and annual cargo throughput hit more than 4.1 million tons, both leading the world.

It is expected that it will take 60 minutes to travel from downtown Shanghai to neighboring cities and 120 minutes from major transportation hubs to major cities in the Yangtze River Delta region.

By 2025, the total length of the city's metro lines and total mileage of railways within the city will reach 960 kilometers.

Besides, the plan vows to accelerate the construction of transportation systems in key areas such as the Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone and Hongqiao commercial zone.

By 2025, it will take 15 minutes to travel from Lin-gang to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, 30 minutes to Longyang Road metro station and other transportation hubs, 60 minutes to Hongqiao International Airport and 90 minutes to neighboring cities in the Delta region.

A two-hour metro transportation circle between Hongqiao commercial zone and major cities in the Delta region will be formed by 2025 to turn Hongqiao into an open international hub.

Meanwhile, the city will accelerate the transformation and development of green and low-carbon transportation by improving the coordinated control of carbon and pollutant emissions from the transportation sector, in response to the commitment of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060.

The proportion of new energy and clean energy buses will reach 96 percent during the 14th Five-Year Plan period to support the development of new energy vehicles. In principle, new and upgraded buses and cruising taxis will all adopt new energy vehicles.