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Travel will be faster: the timetable for “city-to-city high-speed rail” in 12 provinces is released

High-speed rail makes our travel convenient and fast, and is rated as one of China's "Four New Inventions". At present, China's high-speed rail operating mileage has exceeded 30,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world. At the same time, various regions are accelerating the pace of city-to-city high-speed rail. According to incomplete statistics from China-Singapore Jingwei Client, after Fujian became the first province in the country to connect cities to cities with high-speed rail, the timetables for 12 other provinces to connect cities to cities with high-speed rail have also been released.

2020 is the key year for the city-to-city high-speed rail

The reporter combed and found that the timetables for city-to-city high-speed rail in seven provinces, including Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Liaoning, Anhui, Shandong, and Shaanxi, are concentrated in 2020. It is not difficult to see that 2020 is the key year for city-to-city high-speed rail.

Specifically, Henan has made it clear that in 2020, the planned railway operating mileage will reach 7,000 kilometers, and all provincial cities will be connected to express railways, of which about 2,000 kilometers will be high-speed railways; Guangdong pointed out that in 2020, the total railway operating mileage in the province will reach 5,500 kilometers, focusing on building a "five vertical and two horizontal" high-speed railway backbone network, with a high-speed railway operating mileage of 2,000 kilometers, and realizing high-speed railways connecting cities to cities; Guangxi requires that by 2020, the entire region will basically realize high-speed railways connecting cities and towns, and basically complete the construction of Nanning-based high-speed railways. The "12310" high-speed railway transportation circle is the center.

Shandong strives to basically form a "1, 2, and 3-hour" high-speed rail transportation circle centered on Jinan and Qingdao by the end of 2020, and realize the grand transportation dream of "high-speed rail connections to cities and expressways to counties and counties" in Shandong Province. Liaoning plans to optimize the transportation structure of the road network during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, promote the construction of high-speed railways and intercity passenger dedicated lines, and realize "high-speed rail connecting cities to cities." By the end of 2020, Anhui will have several passenger dedicated lines in Hening, Hewu, Beijing-Shanghai, Hefu, Hebeng, Ning'an, Hanghuang, Shanghehang, Zhengfu, He'anjiu, and Zhengxu. High-speed rail network. Shaanxi has made it clear that it will invest more than 500 billion yuan during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period and strive to realize high-speed rail connections in cities and expressways in counties and counties by 2020.

Comparing the timetables of 12 provinces, Jiangsu is the earliest province to implement city-to-city high-speed rail. According to the "China Railway" WeChat ID, on September 16, 2019, the Dongji-Huai'an section of the newly built Xuzhou-Huai'an-Yancheng Railway Lianzhen Railway officially started joint debugging and joint testing, and it is expected to be ready for operation by the end of the year. After the Dongji-Huai'an section of the Xuyan Railway and the Lianzhen Railway are put into operation, it will rewrite the history of Huai'an and Suqian not being connected by high-speed rail. At this point, all thirteen provincial cities in Jiangsu will enter the era of high-speed rail.

High-speed rail + tourism” is favored by tourists

As the domestic high-speed rail network becomes increasingly complete, one-stop tourism services around high-speed rail are becoming more and more mature. According to the "2019 National Day Golden Week Tourism Consumption Report" released by Tuniu Travel Network, during the National Day, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhangjiajie, Guilin, Huangshan, Zhangye, Lanzhou, and Qingdao were the top ten most popular high-speed rail tours in China. destination.

China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "State Railway Group") stated that during the National Day Golden Week that just passed, railway departments in various regions cooperated with local tourism departments to launch a series of "high-speed rail + tourism" projects to provide travelers with travel consultation, Comprehensive services such as transportation, scenic spot tickets, and hotel accommodation.

According to data from China Railway Group, high-speed rail passenger flow continued to rise during the National Day holiday. The average daily number of passengers sent by EMUs across the entire line reached 8.51 million, a year-on-year increase of 11.9%. Passenger traffic on 39 high-speed rail lines including Shanghai-Kunming and Harbin-Dalian reached a record high during the National Day holiday.

Expert: High-speed rail accelerates China’s urbanization and industrialization process

In 2008, China's first high-speed rail between Beijing and Tianjin was put into operation, marking China's entry into the high-speed rail era. In September this year, Ning Jizhe, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, revealed at a press conference that China’s high-speed railway operating mileage reached 30,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world.

In July this year, the World Bank pointed out in its latest "China's High-Speed Railway Development" report that long-term comprehensive planning and design standardization are key elements for the success of China's high-speed railways. The report believes that China's "Medium and Long-term Railway Network Plan" provides a clear framework for the development of high-speed rail systems, and China's high-speed rail development experience is worth learning from other countries.

Ding Ningning, a researcher at the Ministry of Social Development of the Development Research Center of the State Council, previously pointed out in an interview with the media that high-speed rail accelerates China's urbanization and industrialization process, is conducive to the formation of corridor industrial economic belts along the railway, helps expand the division of labor between regions, and makes the domestic market more competitive. Improved uniformity.

Ding Ningning also said that as more high-speed railways are put into operation, it will be more conducive for rural migrants to enter the city, thus greatly increasing people's job opportunities.

Source: (Editor: hsadmin)