In view of the national and regional railway planning and revision, many analysts believe that the next step of the Midwest Railway, as well as intercity railways and municipal railways, will be the focus of development.

Qin Jin told reporters that the development of intercity railways within the national urban agglomerations is seriously lagging behind. In addition, there are many shortcomings in the Midwestern railways. For example, the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and the Yunnan-Tibet Railway need to be accelerated.

On July 26, Premier Li Keqiang said during the construction site inspection of the Lalin section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway that the Sichuan-Tibet Grand Passage is of great significance to Tibet's development and ecological protection, and also helps to cultivate new kinetic energy for Tibet's development. Things must be accelerated to start construction. At present, the infrastructure in the central and western regions is relatively weak, and promoting effective investment to fill shortcomings will not only help narrow the regional development gap, but also respond to economic downward pressure.

Qin Jin said that the current railway speeding up investment will certainly not launch too many projects like the 4 trillion in 2009, otherwise the negative effects will be too great. However, from the current point of view, it is necessary to appropriately accelerate the investment in railway infrastructure when the overall investment growth rate slows down, because it is beneficial to the stability of economic development.

The 21st Century Business Herald reporter learned that various medium- and long-term railway plans and the “13th Five-Year Plan” have been revised and a large number of new projects will be born.

For example, the medium and long-term railway planning in Shandong was originally “four vertical and four horizontal”, and it has now become “four horizontal and six vertical”, adding “two verticals”, including the Binzhou-Zibo-Linyi passage, as a parallel high-speed railway with the Beijing-Shanghai second channel. It does not exist in the national medium- and long-term planning, and is currently an added project for the new revision.

And similar to the new high-speed rail project, far more than Shandong Province. For example, Jiangsu Province, the province's revised railway project along the Yangtze River, which involves Nanjing to Xuancheng, Nanjing to Huai'an and other series of intercity railways, not involved in the national medium- and long-term planning.

The 21st Century Business Herald learned that after the revision of the medium and long-term railway planning and the acceleration of railway investment, many of the original "14th Five-Year" projects may be advanced to the "13th Five-Year Plan", such as Ya'an to Linzhi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. segment.

It should be noted that the eastern region is economically developed and it is necessary to build intercity railways in many world-class and national-level urban agglomerations. However, in many areas of the central and western regions where the economy is underdeveloped and the population is small, there may not be a major intercity railway. The needs of the railway.

A person from the national railway planning department told reporters that only about half of the country's more than 20 urban agglomerations can better repair the intercity railway. Some urban agglomerations centered on the provincial capital in the Midwest, when planning the intercity railway, some proposed a version of nearly 2,000 kilometers, which is obviously too high.