Author: Li Xiuzhong
With the smooth progress of major projects during the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the policy tools to speed up infrastructure construction to stabilize the economy, the railway construction will usher in a wave of major projects in the upcoming fourth quarter.
Dozens of railway projects expected to start in the fourth quarter
On September 8, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment approved the environmental impact report for the Ankang-Chongqing section of the Xi'an-Chongqing high-speed railway.
After the approval of the environmental impact assessment and other requirements, the pre-requisites required for the preliminary design approval of the West-Chongqing high-speed railway are nearly completed, which lays the foundation for the project to start construction within this year.
Another high-speed rail project in Chongqing, the Chongqing-Wanzhou high-speed railway, is also about to start.
According to the official website of Chongqing Railway Investment Group, the construction and supervision units of the project plan to fully enter the site by the end of September this year, and strive to complete the investment task of 3.5 billion yuan this year.
The preliminary design of the project was approved in March this year, and it passed the construction drawing review organized by the National Railway Group in August this year.
Generally speaking, the second half of the year, especially the fourth quarter, is the most important part of railway construction investment in the whole year.
Under the pressure of stabilizing the economic market this year, railway investment has become an important policy tool.
Together with the West-Chongqing and Yu-Wan railways, it is expected that dozens of railway projects across the country will start construction in the fourth quarter of this year.
On September 5, the "Bidding Announcement for the Construction of the Total Construction Price Contract for the Construction of the North Section of the Yingshanxi to Wanzhou North Section of the New Chengdu-Dazhou-Wanzhou Railway" released on the Beijing Public Resource Trading Platform showed that the entire Chengda-Wanzhou high-speed railway is planned to be launched on October 1. Construction begins and will be completed by the end of September 2027.
On September 6, the "Bidding Announcement for the Construction of the Total Price Contract for the Construction of the New Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei High-speed Railway (Anhui Section), Sidian Integration and Related Projects" issued by the Nanjing Public Resources Trading Center showed that the North Yanjiang (Shanghai) The Anhui section of the Yu-Rong high-speed railway will officially start construction in October, with a planned construction period of 5 years.
This is an important line at the east and west ends of the high-speed railway along the river, and it has been listed as a key construction project in the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline.
In addition, the Xiongan-Shangqiu section of the Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed railway (Xiong-Shanghai high-speed railway), the Shanxi section and Hebei section of the Xiongan-Xinzhou high-speed railway, and the Jiangsu and Shanghai sections of the high-speed railway along the Yangtze River from Shanghai to Nanjing to Hefei will all start in October.
At the end of August, when the China Railway Group disclosed the final accounts for the first half of 2022, it said that in the first half of this year, the State Railway Group gave full play to the role of railway construction investment in stabilizing the economic market, and made every effort to fight the battle for the construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. , and solidly promote the iron-related projects among the 102 key projects identified in the national "14th Five-Year Plan" outline.
The preliminary work of these railway projects is progressing smoothly, and the progress of some major projects has been accelerated in accordance with the approval procedures for capital construction.
Not only that, but on May 31, the "Notice of the State Council on Printing and Distributing a Package of Policies and Measures to Steady and Stabilize the Economy" was released. Article 14 of it is to accelerate the promotion of investment in transportation infrastructure, and it is clearly proposed to support the National Railway Group to issue 300 billion yuan of railway construction bonds.
Give full play to the stimulating effect of railway construction investment
On September 14, the National Railway Administration released the completion of major national railway indicators in August. In the first eight months of this year, the national railway fixed asset investment completed 402.8 billion yuan, down 4.4%.
The turning point of national railway construction investment will be in 2020.
From 2014 to 2019, the total investment in railway fixed assets in my country remained above 800 billion yuan, but in 2020 it dropped to 781.9 billion yuan.
In 2021, the national railway will complete a fixed asset investment of 748.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 4.22%, the lowest in eight years.
The railway department did not announce the goals and tasks of railway construction investment this year, but stated that "completely complete the national railway investment task, and promote high-quality national key projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. )."
At the beginning of this year, CITIC Construction Investment Securities predicted that 2022 will be an important year for implementing the "14th Five-Year Plan" and accelerating the construction of a strong transportation country, and railway fixed asset investment is likely to return to the level of 800 billion yuan.
But judging from the data for the first eight months of this year, railway investment is still at a relatively low level.
However, under the current economic situation, infrastructure construction such as railways, as an important policy tool, plays an important role in stabilizing the overall economic market. Although there may be some difficulties in restoring railway investment to 800 billion yuan, it is still possible to stabilize Railway investment is declining.
On September 5, the National Railway Group held a party group meeting, proposing to give full play to the role of railway construction investment in driving investment, actively connect with national and regional development strategies, adhere to the safe and high-quality opening of projects to be opened, and complete as much physical work as possible for projects under construction. The amount and investment of new projects to be started will be accelerated and the feasibility study will be accelerated.
Recently, various departments have also accelerated the approval process.
The executive meeting of the State Council held on August 31 listened to the report on the supervision and service work of stabilizing the economic market, and deployed to fully release the effectiveness of policies and accelerate the expansion of effective demand.
The meeting proposed to continue to adopt centralized office and parallel processing methods for key projects to improve approval efficiency and strengthen element guarantees.
Local governments can make commitments on land use, environmental impact assessment, etc. according to their responsibilities and authorities, and go through the procedures according to regulations after the project is implemented.