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作者：jeepguy 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
US firm to set foreign funding of rail rolling - 2b yuan line in Fuling city, Chongqing to be first built with overseas capital
investment Mark O'Neill in Shanghai
742 words
19 September 2005
South China Morning Post
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English
(c) 2005 South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.
A United States equity company and a district of the Chongqing region announced the first foreign investment in China's railway system since 1949.
American New Energy Investment (ANEI) and the Foreign Trade and Economic Bureau (FTEB) of Fuling city, in Chongqing, said that they had signed a preliminary agreement to build and operate a railway in the city with investment of 2.1 billion yuan and to run cargo and passenger traffic on the route.
The agreement marks the start of what could be a flood of foreign capital into one of the last major sectors of the economy closed to them until the end of 2004 when Beijing lifted a ban on foreign investment in the railway sector.
Driving this is the enormous gap between plans to expand the rail network and the state funds available. According to official forecasts, China wants to invest two trillion yuan into new railways over the next 15 years or 130 billion a year but has an annual budget of only 50 billion. It needs to raise the rest from private capital, both domestic and foreign.
A spokesman for the Beijing office of ANEI said that it had signed a preliminary agreement with Fuling city. "Our plan is to enter the market early. The Ministry of Railways will gradually open the market to foreign and domestic private investment."
He said that it was exploring with Fuling the form of the investment, either through a shareholding company in which each side received its profits in accordance with its investment or as a financial investment in which it did not take part in the management and received a fixed rate of return.
He said that ANEI was registered in Hong Kong, with US$5-6 billion in funds from the United States.
An official of the FTEB of Fuling said there were two kinds of railway project in China, one that needed national approval and the other local approval. "This one needs district approval with a report to the centre. We are discussing the mode of operation. It will be the first foreign invested railway in China."
The initial plan calls for investment of 2.1 billion yuan, to carry 3.5 million tonnes of cargo and 300,000 passengers a year and returning a profit after eight years.
Fuling is a city of 1.1 million people on the confluence of the Yangtze and Wujiang rivers, 120 kilometres by boat from Chongqing.
With the lifting of the ban at the end of last year, many cities and provinces in China are soliciting foreign investors.
Shandong province is offering six new lines involving a total of US$600 million. The Ministry of Railways has started work on the 989-km high-speed line between Wuhan and Guangzhou and holds 51 per cent in the project. It is soliciting private capital, from domestic and foreign investors for 24 billion yuan of the total cost of 116.6 billion yuan.
But whether private companies invest in the railways will depend on whether they have some control over pricing. Since 1949, the Ministry of Railways has held down the freight rates for coal, grain and other commodities and for passengers in order to keep inflation down. Many are sceptical as to how much freedom private investors will be allowed.
At 75,000 kilometres, China's rail network is one of the largest in the world. The official plan is to increase this to 85,000km by 2010 and 100,000km by 2020 which will involve investment of two trillion yuan. The state budget plans to provide 750 billion yuan, with the rest coming from outside investors.
In the early 1920s, Sun Yat-sen, father of the Republic of China, published a map of an intense network of railways he wanted to see covering the whole country. At that time, the actual network was very small and largely in the hands of foreign companies who used railway construction as a way to secure territorial and mining concessions.
So the building of railways has always been seen in China not only as an economic project but an instrument of colonial power. This is one reason why the ban on foreign investment was lifted only at the end of 2004.
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