China News Service, Changsha, December 17th (Fu Jingyi) China's first unmanned bus to enter the apron for manned tests, and a heavy truck that can automatically drive 100 kilometers per hour in high-speed scenarios... 2021 Hunan (Changsha) International Smart Transportation Expo opened in Changsha on the 17th. A large number of cutting-edge technological achievements were unveiled to promote the promotion and application of new products, new technologies, and new materials, and accelerate the innovation and development of China's smart transportation.
With the theme of "Science and Technology Empowering Transportation and Wisdom Leading the Future", this year's expo will gather innovative entities, innovation platforms and innovative enterprises through a combination of main activities, expos and six supporting activities. More than two hundred key enterprises in the transportation field, Experts and scholars jointly discuss new trends in industrial development, accelerate the process of Hunan's deep integration into the global transportation industry chain, and coordinate to promote the high-quality development of the industry.
The 2021 Hunan International Smart Transportation Expo kicks off.
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The expo has a total exhibition area of 40,000 square meters, with eight exhibition areas including smart roads, urban smart transportation, smart port and aviation, smart rail, and smart aviation. Exchanges and discussions on topics such as "transportation", "transportation digitization", and "spatial information technology", to discuss the high-quality development path of smart transportation.
Liu Youmei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that smart transportation is a new source of power to promote high-quality economic development and an important part of building a national comprehensive transportation network.
At present, China has entered a new stage of development, and smart transportation has ushered in a new frontier. Hunan, as a highland for the development of smart transportation, has a potential and unlimited opportunities.
Hunan is one of the first pilot regions for the construction of a strong transportation country. It enjoys the location advantage of “One Belt, One”, complete basic transportation network facilities, and a new generation of information technology such as 5G construction is booming.
Zhao Ping, director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Transportation, said that Hunan's early deployment of the transportation industry, the transportation landscape is undergoing a historic change, and it has become the most significant symbol of the improvement of Hunan's comprehensive strength and the industry with the most benefits for the people.
A new type of smart transportation displayed at the exhibition.
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Since 2020, 15 new expressways of 1251 kilometers have been opened and constructed in Hunan Province. The estimated transportation investment in 2021 will exceed 100 billion yuan, a record high.
Smart transportation demonstrates new achievements. Today's Hunan Expressway has smooth connections inside and outside, high-speed railways are woven into a network, national and provincial trunk lines are in Sanxiang, rural roads enter villages, water transport channels lead to rivers and seas, civil aviation networks are fully expanded, and governance efficiency continues Enhanced.
Zhao Ping said that Hunan Transportation will use this expo as an opportunity to vigorously promote the use of new technologies, new materials, new processes, and new equipment, and accelerate the deep integration of new-generation information technologies such as cloud computing, big data, 5G, and artificial intelligence with transportation. , Strive to create reproducible and extendable "digital + transportation" and "informatization + transportation" scenarios, further improve the level of transportation technology, informatization, and intelligence, strive to build a national smart transportation demonstration province, and fully promote Hunan transportation High-quality development.
Shanhe, a light sport aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of 700kg.
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It is reported that at this Expo, the "Wave Beam Alloy Steel Guardrail" project was successfully signed and settled in Chenzhou City. The three parties of China Communications Chenzhu, Chenzhou Communications Construction, and China Communications Changguan intend to invest 300 million yuan to establish an annual production capacity of 10 billion yuan in Chenzhou. The road guardrail production plant in Southwest China provides technical and capacity support for transportation construction in southwest China, which is of great significance to the implementation of the national strategic decision of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality".
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