China News Service, Yichang, January 6 (Reporter Guo Xiaoying) The reporter learned from the two sessions of Yichang City, Hubei that in the next five years, Yichang will build the Three Gorges Shipping Center, vigorously develop trunk transportation, regional distribution, warehousing services, and cross-border logistics, and accelerate construction The national logistics hub city plans to build a new land-sea channel in the central and western regions of the "Jiangtiehai".
Yichang is a regional central city between the Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle and the Wuhan City Group. It is the location of the Three Gorges Project and the Gezhouba Project. The east, middle and west logistics hub conducts high-intensity logistics exchange in Yichang.
The Three Gorges ship lock has reached a design capacity of 100 million tons in 2011 and 146 million tons in 2021, 46% exceeding the design capacity.
Yichang Wujiagang Yangtze River Bridge (data map) photo by Zhou Xingliang
Focusing on breaking the navigation bottleneck of the Three Gorges section of the Yangtze River, Yichang is striving to build a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, strengthen the construction of the Three Gorges shipping center, make good use of the Yangtze River golden waterway, and focus on improving the Three Gorges comprehensive transportation system, dam-turning transit system, and internal and external network systems. , Do a good job in the reconstruction and expansion of the Three Gorges Airport and the development of aviation logistics, build a "water, highway, rail, and air traffic control" comprehensive transportation hub, and form a new traffic pattern of breakthroughs between north and south, east and west, and rivers and seas as soon as possible.
In September 2019, Yichang was selected as the first batch of national logistics hub construction list and was approved to build a port-type national logistics hub.
In April 2021, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the High-quality Development of the Central Region in the New Era" clearly stated that "accelerating the construction of Yichang's national logistics hub", Yichang thus entered the national strategic layout.
Yichang has developed water and land transportation (data map) Photo by Fu Beibei
According to data from the Yichang Logistics Development Center, in 2021, Yichang's total social logistics will exceed the trillion mark, a year-on-year growth rate of more than 20%.
Among them, multimodal transportation has achieved new breakthroughs. Through multimodal operation, 5.63 million tons of goods were transported to alleviate the congestion problem of the Yangtze River trunk line.
The Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway passes through the mountains of Yichang.
(Data map) Photo by Howard
Guo Kangxin, director of the Yichang Development and Reform Commission, said that in the next five years, Yichang plans to invest more than 350 billion yuan to promote road encryption, shipping speed, airport upgrades, and railway networks. Yichang will form a complete water, highway, railway and air three-dimensional transportation network. Big transportation and big logistics pattern.
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