Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 17th, title: Get through the longest one "horizontal" my country's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail networks are encrypted and formed
Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Xi
At 7:50 a.m. on the 17th, the "Bullet" G8312 high-speed rail train slowly departed from Lianyungang Station and flew towards Xuzhou.
The Spring Festival travel in 2021 is the first Spring Festival travel for the Xulian High-speed Railway.
On February 8th, before the Spring Festival, the Xu-Lian high-speed railway has just opened, and it can be reached within 60 minutes from Xuzhou to Lianyungang.
The length of this section of high-speed rail is 185 kilometers, which seems inconspicuous, but it has very important strategic significance.
Its opening means that the longest horizontal passage of my country's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network-the high-speed railway from Lianyungang to Urumqi is fully connected, providing strong support for the development of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge Economic Corridor.
Xu Guang, head of Xulian high-speed rail design of the Fourth Academy of China Railway Construction Railway, said that the Xulian high-speed rail is the easternmost section of the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" Lianyungang-Urumqi passage and the last section. It is the same as the Xuzhou-Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou to Xi'an, Xi'an to Baoji, Baoji to Lanzhou, and Lanzhou to Urumqi are connected by high-speed railways, forming a 3422-kilometer land bridge that spans three time zones.
Opening up the longest one "horizontal" also means that my country's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail channels are getting denser and denser.
Lu Dongfu, chairman of the China National Railway Group Co., Ltd., said that with the opening of many high-speed rails in recent years, the "four vertical and four horizontal" high-speed rail networks have been completed ahead of schedule, and the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail networks have been encrypted and formed.
Each data confirms the continuous advancement of China's high-speed rail: By the end of 2020, the national railway operating mileage will reach 146,300 kilometers, an increase of 20.9% from the 121,000 kilometers at the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period.
Among them, the operating mileage of high-speed rail reached 37,900 kilometers, nearly double the 19,800 kilometers at the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period.
In 2020 alone, the national railways completed a fixed asset investment of 781.9 billion yuan, an increase of 71.9 billion yuan from the plan at the beginning of the year. Among them, the capital construction investment was more than 555 billion yuan, exceeding the level of 2019; the new line was put into operation with 4,933 kilometers and 20 new projects were started. .
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period that just passed, China's railway construction investment continued to increase, the scale and quality of the railway network, especially the high-speed railway network, achieved a major leap, and a number of major landmark projects such as the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway were completed and put into operation.
On the vast land of China, the most modern railway network and the most developed high-speed railway network in the world are rapidly expanding.
The high-speed rail promotes the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and exchanges with the Northeast region, becoming a catalyst for the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast.
At the end of last year, the Beijing-Xiong Intercity Railway was put into operation, and the Beijing-Xiong'an New Area reached 30 minutes.
On January 22 this year, the Beijing-Chengde section of the Beijing-Harbin high-speed rail was opened for operation, and the Beijing-Harbin high-speed rail was fully connected. It can reach Beijing to Shenyang and Harbin in 2 hours 45 minutes and 4 hours 52 minutes at the fastest.
In the Yangtze River Delta, where the high-speed rail is most dense, all prefecture-level cities in the region, except Zhoushan, have realized city-to-city traffic, forming a 0.5 hour to 3 hour intercity traffic circle, promoting the continuous expansion of the effect of urbanization, and promoting the Yangtze River Delta High-quality integrated development and the construction of world-class urban agglomerations have made contributions.
In central China, the high-speed rail network welcomed new members at the end of last year.
With the opening of the He’an high-speed rail, 7 lines including Hefei, Hewu, Beijing-Hong Kong, Shanghehang, Hefu, Hebang, and He’an high-speed rail will meet in Hefei. This will further improve the pattern of Hefei’s “meter”-shaped high-speed rail and make Hefei The railway hub has become an important high-speed rail throat connecting Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the east, Jiangxi and Fujian in the south, Sichuan and Hubei in the west, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in the north.
In the northwest, the Yinxi high-speed rail, which was opened not long ago, is an important part of the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network (Silver) sea channel in the national medium and long-term railway network plan. It is also the country's first high-speed rail crossing the Loess Plateau. The first high-speed railway connecting the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Revolutionary Zone.
After the opening of the Yinxi high-speed rail, a fast communication channel between the Guanzhong urban agglomeration centered on Xi'an and the Yellow Urban Belt centered on Yinchuan has been formed.
Taking the train from Xi’an to Yinchuan has been shortened from the original 15 hours to about 3.5 hours, which greatly facilitates the travel of people along the route and promotes regional economic and social development.
In the southwest region, the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail has completed the speed-up transformation and became the first high-speed rail operating at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour in the southwest region of my country.
Statistics from the National Railway Group show that in recent years, the rapid development of high-speed rail has attracted a large number of passengers, and the proportion of EMU trains for passenger transportation has continued to increase.
In 2019, the national railways sent 3.57 billion passengers, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%, of which 2.29 billion EMUs, a year-on-year increase of 14.1%, high-speed rail has become the first choice for people to travel.
Professor Yang Hao of Beijing Jiaotong University said that the expansion of high-speed railway coverage and network operation have further improved my country's high-speed rail network structure and improved the public travel environment, especially for areas with underdeveloped transportation to accelerate economic and social development, and accelerate personnel exchanges and economic trade. Communication is of great significance.