The Guangzhou-Shantou High-speed Railway has been put into operation, accelerating the integration of eastern Guangdong into the "one-hour traffic circle" of the Greater Bay Area; Guangzhou Baiyun Station has been completed and opened, adding another world-class comprehensive transportation hub; the Pazhou Ferry Terminal directly connects to Hong Kong and Macao, setting up a "one-hour life on the water" circle" bridge...
In 2023, with the strong leadership of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government and the strong support of the Ministry of Transport, the province's transportation system will actively fulfill its mission of "pioneer", accelerate the construction of a strong transportation province, and accelerate the construction of a modern comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network , fully promote the construction of transportation projects, and continue to improve the quality of comprehensive transportation services and the level of transportation safety and production.
2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and is a critical year for achieving the goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan.
Guangdong's transportation system will follow the specific deployment of the Provincial Party Committee's "1310" and lead the province's transportation work with the overall goal of "being at the forefront" to coordinate investment and construction, passenger and freight transportation, safety and stability, technological innovation, industry governance, etc. Various tasks will comprehensively improve the quality and level of transportation services, better support the "Hundreds and Thousands Project" and the ecological construction of Green Beauty Guangdong, serve as a good pioneer for Guangdong's high-quality development and modernization, and provide more powerful transportation service guarantees.
The construction of a strong transportation province is advancing steadily
On January 29, the "Cooperation Agreement between the Ministry of Transport and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government on accelerating the construction of a transportation powerhouse and supporting Guangdong at the forefront of promoting Chinese-style modernization" was officially signed, marking the high-quality development of transportation in the province in the next five years. There is an action plan.
In the past year, Guangdong has aligned itself with the national strategy and promoted the construction of a leading demonstration province for transportation power.
Last year, the Guangdong Province Transportation Power Pilot Project Management Measures and Division of Work Plan were issued, focusing on the implementation of 45 pilot tasks to build a Transportation Power.
Among the pilot tasks that have been accepted nationwide, Guangdong’s “Integrated Development of Transportation, Tourism and Other Industries” pilot task ranks first.
At the same time, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, and Huizhou were identified as the first batch of pilot cities for the construction of a strong transportation province. The construction of a strong transportation province has moved from surface to point to depth.
In 2023, the province's total investment in the construction of highways, waterways and provincial-controlled railways will be approximately 346.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.2%.
Fifteen projects including the reconstruction and expansion of Huilong Expressway and Shenzhen-Shantou Expressway have been completed. The total mileage of the province open to traffic has reached 11,481 kilometers, ranking first in the country for 10 consecutive years.
49 national and provincial highways were completed and opened to traffic, with approximately 1,051 kilometers of new and expanded mileage throughout the year.
19 projects including the BASF integrated project bulk terminal and the second phase of the Yamen sea channel project have been completed.
Three projects with a total length of 353 kilometers, including the Guangzhou-Shantou-Shantou High-speed Railway, were completed and opened to traffic.
Facilitate the in-depth implementation of the “Hundreds and Thousands Project”
Guangdong vigorously promotes the coverage of expressways in cities and towns, promotes the construction of expressway tie lines, branch lines and extension lines, smoothes national roads to connect counties, and strengthens provincial roads to connect villages and towns.
The province has realized that counties and counties are connected to expressways and towns are connected to national and provincial roads.
Last year, Guangdong exceeded the target for rural road construction in the province's ten livelihood-related tasks in 2023. 6,958 kilometers of rural roads were newly rebuilt throughout the year, 288 dangerous bridges on rural roads were renovated, 3,539 kilometers of village road safety protection projects, and 3,300 kilometers of beautiful rural roads.
More than 2,200 new administrative villages have been connected to two-lane roads, with a coverage ratio of 83.5%.
The proportion of ordinary national highways in the second class, ordinary provincial roads in the third class and the two-lane coverage of rural roads leading to administrative villages have continued to increase in the province, which has effectively promoted the eastern, western and northern Guangdong regions to better undertake the orderly transfer of industries in the Pearl River Delta region.
The comprehensive transportation service system of counties, towns and villages has been continuously improved.
Guangdong has initially formed a new system of rural logistics network nodes at the county, town and village levels with coordinated development of transportation, postal services, and supply and marketing.
The province has further promoted the integrated development of rural passenger transport, freight transport, logistics and express delivery, and 17 prefectures and cities have opened integrated services.
Meixian, Nanxiong and Sihui passed the Ministry of Transport's "Urban and Rural Transportation Integration Demonstration Counties" acceptance, and Shaoguan City's successful experience in integrating transportation resources was promoted nationwide by the Ministry as a typical case.
Dabu County’s “e-commerce logistics + rural passenger and cargo transportation” and Wengyuan County’s “building a three-level logistics system to help agricultural products enter the city” have become the fourth batch of rural logistics service brands in the country, with a total of 5 brands in the province.
Promoting the integrated development of "transportation, agriculture, culture, tourism and business", Guangdong has created a marine theme culture in Yangjiang service area, overseas Chinese watchtower culture in Liangjinshan service area, freight theme in Shengtang service area, and Sanhuali transportation theme in Baishi service area. Rural revitalization and a number of special service areas.
Accelerate the construction of Maoming litchi cultural characteristic service area on Baomao Expressway.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge tourism trial operation has been launched. Residents from Hong Kong, Macao and the Mainland can visit the bridge through the Zhuhai Highway Port of the bridge.
Three routes, including "Shenzhen Coastal Sightseeing Tour", "Guangzhou Pearl River Tour" and "Zhuhai Island Tour", have been identified as pilot projects for the creation of premium routes by the Ministry of Transport.
The Green Beauty Highway in Guangdong is “beautiful”
In 2023, Guangdong's transportation system will take the lead of Green Beauty Guangdong Ecological Construction, fully promote the construction of green highways and improve the quality of trunk highway greening, and create a green and harmonious travel environment.
Currently, Guangdong is vigorously organizing various regions to carry out technical management work such as greening design, construction and maintenance of trunk highways, comprehensively accelerating the improvement of greening quality of green and beautiful highways, and actively creating green and beautiful highway models.
Open the highway map of Guangdong, and you will see many examples of green and beautiful highway construction.
Huiqing Expressway fully applies topsoil stripping technology and reuses 100% of the recovered topsoil, effectively protecting topsoil resources from loss and waste, and creating a green ecological road.
Huida Expressway has built a "light storage and charging" integrated low-carbon electricity project in the Yuansan service area, which not only effectively solves the problem of charging and replenishing energy for new energy vehicles, but also reduces carbon emissions in the service area.
Focus on stabilizing investment and grasping construction
Helping economically prosperous provinces to play leading roles
The Central Economic Work Conference proposed that economically major provinces should truly take the lead and make greater contributions to stabilizing the national economy.
Transportation is an important force in promoting investment and stabilizing the economy.
According to the Provincial Department of Transportation, in 2024, Guangdong’s transportation system will closely focus on the deployment of the central government, the provincial party committee, and the provincial government, anchoring goals and tasks, maintaining construction, promoting new openings, and strengthening reserves. The province’s highway and waterway plan for the year The investment arrangement exceeds 230 billion yuan, and the investment arrangement for provincial railway construction is 120 billion yuan, helping the economically prosperous provinces to truly play the leading role.
Closely focus on the implementation of the goals and tasks during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
In accordance with the mid-term adjustment of the ministry's "14th Five-Year Plan", a number of highway and water transport projects in our province have been added to the "14th Five-Year Plan" mid-term adjustment project library. These projects ensure that all construction will start in 2024 and 2025.
Strive to achieve the "14th Five-Year Plan" general national and provincial highway planning target of 95% of the second-class general national highways and 90% of the third-class general provincial highways.
In 2024, the province's expressway plans to start 12 new projects, including the reconstruction and expansion project of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway from Shaoguan, Guangdong, Wujiang to Qingyuan Fogang. It plans to start new national and provincial highways, such as the new Shantou Bay Bridge on National Highway G228, and other provincial key construction projects. 17 projects, including 22 new port and shipping projects planned to be started, including the third phase of Shantou Guangao Port Area, Zhuhai Port Gaolan Port Area National Energy Bulk Terminal, and the Beijiang Channel expansion and upgrading project.
In terms of railway construction, we strive to start 6 new projects including the 5th and 6th lines from Guangzhou East to Xintang (including Guangzhou East Station).
Accelerate the construction of projects under construction and strive to promote the completion and operation of more projects.
This year, Guangdong will continue to build 48 expressway projects of approximately 1,927 kilometers, and strive to complete 16 projects including the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Expressway.
There are 158 general national and provincial highway renewal projects, and 54 projects including the Yangjiang section of the provincial highway S539 are being completed.
There are 41 provincial railway renewal projects under provincial management, and we strive to complete 9 projects including the Meilong High-speed Railway.
There are 64 renewal projects of port and shipping projects, and we strive to complete 18 projects including the upgrading project of the inbound channel in the Tsuen Wan Port area of Huizhou Port.
We will regard 2024 as a critical year for rural road construction and ensure the completion of the province’s “Ten Livelihood Matters” rural road construction tasks (more than 5,000 kilometers of newly renovated rural roads, 240 dilapidated bridges on rural roads, and the completion of 1,000 rural road safety and life protection projects). km), we will put pressure on ourselves to fight the tough battle of upgrading.
Written by: Yuan Peiru Guangdong Communications Comprehensive (Nanfang Daily)