What super effects will super projects bring?
A giant steel dragon soars over the bay area, and a long rainbow lies on the waves across the road.
On June 30, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, a major national project, was officially opened for trial operation. The 24-kilometer-long super project has shortened the driving time from Shenzhen to Zhongshan from about 2 hours to 30 minutes, and has established a key "horizontal" in the "A"-shaped transportation network framework around the Pearl River Estuary.
"I used to be from Zhongshan, now I am from Shenzhen, and I will soon be from 'Shenzhen Zhongshan'." This is how many Zhongshan people working in Shenzhen describe their identity changes. The half-hour commute makes the road to Shenzhen, the city of the future, faster. People are more looking forward to the new life of "working in Shenzhen and living in Zhongshan", and the travel between the two cities will become more frequent.
In order to convert the "flow" brought by the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link into "retention", Shenzhen, a member of the "1 trillion yuan consumption city club", is stepping up its efforts. Many core commercial areas are actively carrying out consumption promotion activities to prepare for the consumption boom that will follow the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link. In Zhongshan City, a number of construction projects including commercial residences and workshops have been topped off, waiting for more people or companies to "move in with their bags", making it an important base for receiving industrial spillovers from east coast cities such as Shenzhen and attracting investment.
With convenient transportation and mutual exchange of resources, the "half-hour living circle" of Shenzhen and Zhongshan and the "one-hour living circle" of the Greater Bay Area have gradually turned from development visions into life reality, and the "sense of being in the same city" of the people on the east and west banks of the Pearl River Estuary has become stronger.
Transportation is connected to life on one end and production on the other.
Since ancient times, transportation location has been an important factor affecting industrial structure and economic development. As a natural barrier, the Pearl River Estuary has profoundly influenced the industrial structure and economic development path of the city clusters on both sides of the river.
The eastern city cluster represented by Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou has advanced manufacturing and strong scientific and technological innovation capabilities, but the space and land use costs are relatively high; the western city cluster represented by Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Jiangmen is just the opposite. The industrial development on both sides of the strait is complementary, but there is no "sky road" that can cross the Pearl River Estuary.
Now, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel has officially opened to traffic. It is not only the traffic that has been accelerated, but also the development of enterprises between the two sides of the strait; it is not only the traffic that is flowing, but also various elements such as technology and finance between the two city clusters.
There are many cities and provinces that have achieved development by relying on transportation location factors.
Wuhan, a thoroughfare connecting nine provinces, relies not only on the water transport conditions at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Han River, but also on the water and railway transport systems built by the developed transportation infrastructure, which keeps the city bustling.
Hangzhou Airport Phase III and Hangzhou West Railway Station Hub were put into use simultaneously, the second channel of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Hangzhou section, Babao Ship Lock and Xiasha Port were put into use, and the "water, land and air" amphibious development brought more vitality to Hangzhou;
Guizhou, the only province in China without a plain terrain, has dug tunnels and built highways through the mountains and ravines, with thousands of bridges and roads crisscrossing, pushing Guizhou onto the fast track of high-quality development...
China's experience and capabilities in building convenient transportation conditions and promoting economic development have benefited more countries.
Colombo Port City is the first seaside new city in Sri Lanka to be master-planned. Under the construction of Chinese builders, it has become a model of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation between China and Sri Lanka.
The Hungary-Serbia high-speed railway is a key project of the Belt and Road Initiative jointly built by China and Central and Eastern European countries. It has further improved the travel conditions of residents along the route, strengthened the connectivity between Hungary and Serbia, and deepened the mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Europe.
The Tiebu Expressway is part of the national expressway trunk line of Côte d'Ivoire. After its completion and opening to traffic, many important cities in Côte d'Ivoire have felt the "Chinese speed" brought by Chinese technology...
"If you want to get rich, build roads first" and "build roads when you encounter mountains and build bridges when you encounter rivers". Super projects represented by the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link drive the "soft connectivity" of development and construction through the "hard connectivity" of infrastructure, giving full play to the pioneering role of transportation. We are confident that more super projects will put China on the "fast track" of high-quality development in the future.
