The Urumqi Metro is a metro system under construction in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China—it has submitted plans for 7 lines totalling 211.9 km in length with a total estimated cost of Rmb31 billion ($4.5 billion).
The Urumqi Rmb2.3 billion Line 2 Metro project is the first metro PPP project in Urumqi and it is one of the demonstration projects of the Ministry of Finance.
Line 2 will connect the downtown area and the newly developed high-speed rail district of Urumqi improving the overall convenience of Urumqi's public transportation network making passenger journeys faster and easier.
The project aims to modernise Urumqi’s transportation network and support the One Belt and One Road development strategy proposed by China.