



By the first quarter of 2017, 24,671 enterprises have been set up in the Nansha FTZ, which means an increasing number of people need to shuttle from downtown to Nansha District.





Here is a good news for you!





Going through Nansha District, Panyu District, Haizhu District and Tianhe District, Guangzhou Metro Line 18 will link the city’s downtown with Nansha. The whole trip will be within 30 minutes.

Line 18 have a total length of 62.7 km with 9 stations including Wan Qing Sha, Hengli, Panyu Square, Nancun Wanbo, Shaxi, Shiliugang, Pazhou Xiqu, Xiancun, Guangzhou East Railway Station. Except Shaxi, the others are interchange stations.

The construction is to start by the end of this year and a trial run is scheduled for 2020.













30 minutes from Nansha to downtown





Line 18 will have two operation modes, stop-skipping mode and normal mode. In the stop-skipping mode, the train will only stop at Hengli, Panyu Square and Xiancun besides the first and the final station, reducing the travel time from Nansha to downtown to within 30 minutes. In the normal mode, the train will stop at all stations.









During rush hour, 3 trains are scheduled per hour in both directions in the stop-skipping mode while 6 will be provided for normal mode. In other words, the average wait time in rush hour for passengers in Hengli, Panyu Square and Xiancun will be around 6 minutes and that in other stops will be 10 minutes.





The country’s first to run high-speed trains





Line 18 is designed to be the fastest metro of Guangzhou and also of China. As to achieve the design target of covering the 67.2 km journey within 30 minutes, Line 18 is planning to run intercity CRH6 (China Railway High-speed) trains whose average speed is 160 km/h.









In the future, it will take only 1 hour to travel through PRD via metro





In the coming years, more metro lines will link Guangzhou with Dongguan (detail of Guangzhou-Dongguan Metro Link), Zhongshan and Qingyuan.





The moves are expected to cut the travel time from Guangzhou to other cities in PRD to within one hour and will strengthen the connection among cities in the Guangdong- Hong Kong- Macao Great Bay Area.





Guangzhou will link Zhongshan via the Guangzhou Metro line 18, which will enable passages to travel from Zhongshan to Nansha Free Trade Zone and Zhujiang New Town.

For Qingyuan, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport will connect with the city via the Guangzhou Metro Line 18 and Guangzhoubei Railway Station will link it via the Guangzhou Metro Line 8.

Besides, Guangzhou metro will have more connections with Foshan metro through linking 13 Guangzhou Lines with 10 Foshan Lines.









These grand intercity metro programs are parts of Guangdong’s scheme to facilitate its infrastructure construction. Based on the province’s thirteenth five year plan, Guangdong will build a sophisticated transportation network by 2020, through which passengers will be able to get from one PRD cities to any of the others within one hour.





Apart from the metro projects, Guangdong has also invested 368.7 bln yuan in 21 intercity train programs to connect the PRD cities.



