Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the "Xi'an City Urban Rail Transit Phase III Construction Plan (2019-2024)." The current construction plan covers Xi'an City, Xianyang City and Xixian New Area, including 5 new lines and 2 extension lines, construction mileage of about 150 kilometers, estimated total investment of about 96.9 billion yuan.

This is the second half of last year since the national restart of the subway planning approval of the 10th approved urban subway planning, it is also the only cross-administrative area of the subway planning. The approval scale ranked in the forefront of 10 cities. In the process of declaring the third phase of the xi'an subway construction plan, the National Development and Reform Commission suspended the acceptance of the newly reported subway construction plan in various places as the state proposed to prevent and defuse systemic financial risks. Provincial party committee, provincial government leaders attach great importance to the construction of xi'an subway, many times on the third phase of the construction planning and approval of research and deployment, led to the National Development and Reform Commission, housing and urban and rural construction department communication and coordination, and strive to xianyang City, Xixian New Area into the planning scope, and guide the relevant parties in the province to seize the favorable opportunity of the national restart subway planning approval.

In accordance with the requirements of the state to optimize and improve the scale and program of construction, strengthen the financial security capacity, and promote the xi'an subway construction plan was successfully approved. Up to now, Xi'an Metro has been built to operate 4 lines, 126 kilometers of traffic mileage, this year's average daily passenger traffic reached 2.53 million, peak daily passenger traffic reached 3.29 million passengers, per kilometer passenger flow intensity continued to rank first in the country. There are 5 lines under construction, 146 kilometers, of which Line 1 Phase II and Airport Line are expected to open this year, Line 5, Line 6 and Line 9 will be completed and put into operation by 2021. The construction plan approved for this period includes Line 1 Phase III (Qindu Station-Forest Park), Line 2 (Grass Beach North-North Passenger Station, Weiqunan-Changning), Line 8 (Ring Line), Line 10 (Yangjiazhuang-Shuijing Park), Line 14 (North Passenger Station-Heyu Village), Line 15 (Xiaoliu-Hanjiawan), Line 16 (Tongdong Town - Energy Road 3). By 2024, Xi'an Metro will form 12 lines of "chessboard and ring and radiation", build and operate a 423-kilometer urban rail transit network, the proportion of rail travel will reach more than 35% of public transportation, to further improve the three-dimensional integrated transportation system, speed up the construction of the Guanzhong Plain city group and Xi'an National Center city, Sustaining the growth of the "three economies" will play an important role.