Aerial view of the proposed Pingtan bus passenger hub. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Work on a planned Pingtan Bus Passenger Hub in the Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone, Fujian province, began in December 2012, the Pingtan Times has reported. Zhao Xiaobo, the deputy director of the zone's administrative committee, was on hand to address the opening ceremony.

The hub, at the junction of Tanxi Rd and Jinjing Bay Ave, consists of a passenger station and a bus terminus and will cover a 46,809-square-meter area, at a cost of 230 million yuan ($37 million). It is expected to handle 10,000 passengers daily, with more than 600 inbound and outbound buses.

The hub is expected to be built to first-level bus station standards and go into use in two years as the most important comprehensive transportation hub of the zone area. It is a complex that will take care of daily passenger as well as travelers, with catering, accommodations, and business services and promote the goods circulation and speed up the zone's integration of transport services.

This is a key pilot zone project that receives support from the zone administration and Party working committee.

Edited by Chen Zhilin and Roger Bradshaw