Hong Kong’s Mass Rail Transit System and Lessons for China

RTHK Radio 3, August 9, 2014

Lincoln Leong, deputy CEO of Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation, joins China Takes Over the World to talk about MTR’s delayed completion of Hong Kong’s express rail link to southern China, the company’s expansion outside of Hong Kong, and how MTR’s experience in Hong Kong may or may not apply to Mainland China’s efforts to modernize transportation infrastructure. Mr. Leong will become the acting chief executive of MTRC on August 16, 2014.

In the second half of this episode, we offer highlights of our show from the past six months.

To listen to the show, please click here.

Hosted by Ying Ma, China Takes Over the World is a program about China’s growing economic, political and military power. It airs at 8:30 a.m. every Saturday in Hong Kong on RTHK Radio 3, a channel of the city’s public broadcast station. Previous episodes of the show are available on podcast via iTunes.

 

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