China News Service, January 5th. Luo Guosan, Director of the Basic Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out on the 5th that as of November 2020, the length of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Railway and the high-speed rail opened to traffic reached 43,700 kilometers and 15,400 kilometers, respectively, an increase of 9,120 kilometers from 2015. Kilometers, 7,824 kilometers; highway mileage reached 63,700 kilometers, an increase of 15,500 kilometers over 2015.
The National Development and Reform Commission held a special press conference on the 5th to introduce the results of the fifth anniversary of the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Regarding the promotion of the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in the past five years, Luo Guosan said that historic achievements are mainly reflected in five aspects.
First, the economy has maintained sustained and healthy development.
The total economic output of the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased from 42.3% in 2015 to 46.5% in 2019 and further increased to 46.6% in the first three quarters of 2020.
The leading role of emerging industrial clusters is obvious, and the scale of electronic information, equipment manufacturing and other industries accounted for more than 50% of the country.
Furthermore, the formation of comprehensive transportation corridors has accelerated.
The high-grade waterways of the Yangtze River trunk and branch lines have a mileage of tens of thousands of kilometers. All 14 port iron-water combined transport projects have started construction. The planning and construction of high-speed rail along the Yangtze River is proceeding in an orderly manner.
As of November 2020, the length of the Yangtze River Economic Belt railway and high-speed rail opened to traffic has reached 43,700 kilometers and 15,400 kilometers respectively, an increase of 9,120 kilometers and 7,824 kilometers respectively from 2015; the mileage of expressways reached 63,700 kilometers, an increase of 1.55 from 2015 Million kilometers.
In addition, the level of opening up to the outside world has increased substantially.
The Yangtze River Economic Belt and the “Belt and Road” construction are more integrated. The fourth phase of Shanghai Yangshan Port has built the world’s largest and most automated container terminal. Ningbo Zhoushan Port has become the world’s largest port with a throughput exceeding 1.1 billion tons. There are more than 30 train lines running.
The formation of a new land-sea channel in the west has accelerated.
Since 2016, the Yangtze River Economic Belt has added 8 pilot free trade zones and 24 comprehensive bonded zones. In 2019, the total import and export volume of goods trade exceeded 2 trillion US dollars.
Pilot demonstrations of green development are at the forefront of the country.
Chongming in Shanghai, Wuhan in Hubei, Guangyang Island in Chongqing, Jiujiang in Jiangxi, and Yueyang in Hunan are exploring new ways of ecologically prioritizing green development based on their own resources and endowments.
Lishui, Zhejiang and Fuzhou, Jiangxi, further promoted the pilot projects of ecological product value realization mechanism, which provided useful experience for the transformation of green water and green mountains into golden mountains and silver mountains.
In addition, the institutional mechanism has been continuously improved. The Yangtze River Protection Law was voted and passed at the 24th meeting of the 13th National People’s Congress Standing Committee on December 26, 2020, and will come into force on March 1 this year. It becomes my country’s first river basin law, and the Yangtze River Protection has entered legal protection. New stage. The linking mechanism of ecological environment administrative law enforcement, criminal justice and public interest litigation has been initially established. Establishing a negative list management system for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Zone, and speeding up the improvement of mechanisms for ecological compensation, diversified investment, and monitoring and early warning of water environment quality, have provided a strong guarantee for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Zone.