China News Service, Shenzhen, May 18th, title: "Hard Unicom" first upgrades the "one-hour living circle" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

　　Author Zhu Zuying

　　The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area city cluster formed around Lingdingyang in the Pearl River Delta includes nine neighboring cities in Guangdong, as well as Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions.

The country has given it a lofty goal-"a world-class bay area that is livable, industrial, and travelable".

The "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Intercity Railway Construction Plan" proposes that the Greater Bay Area will be built into a "one-hour urban rail transit circle"; in the "National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning Outline" proposed this year, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is included Cluster of 4 major international comprehensive transportation hubs.

　　How can the transportation infrastructure better serve the construction and development of the Greater Bay Area? How can the "one-hour living circle" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area be upgraded and provide more opportunities?

——The layout of traffic arteries runs through the "one-hour living circle" in the Greater Bay Area

　　The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was completed and opened, the Shenzhen-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was put into construction, the Shenzhen Huanggang Port was rebuilt and the subway urban rail was introduced... In recent years, with the support of national policies, Guangdong’s traffic arteries have been continuously laid out and established, and human resources and material resources have been integrated and distributed. More channels.

　　"Track access, gateway access, and supporting access" are the "hard connectivity" in the Greater Bay Area in the eyes of Guo Wanda, executive vice president of the China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute.

Guo Wanda believes that in the process of the Greater Bay Area becoming a world-class urban agglomeration, transportation infrastructure, especially rail connectivity, is indispensable.

　　Guo Wanda said: "It is still not enough to have the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Humen Bridge, Nansha Bridge and other highways. The Greater Bay Area on the'track' provides convenient commuting for people. For example, I live in Guangzhou, Dongguan and other places. But I can reach Shenzhen or Zhuhai in a short time. In recent years, the scope of transportation hubs in Guangzhou and Shenzhen has continued to expand. Even the subways of Guangzhou and Shenzhen are also interoperable, and the two places will be built in the future. Magnetic levitation."

　　In recent years, he founded a biotechnology company in his mother's hometown of Zhongshan. Hong Kong young scientist Pan Honghui and his team have discovered that the space-time distance between Guangdong and the world is getting closer.

For example, the cross-river project (Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor) connecting Shenzhen and Zhongshan will be completed in 2024, and the journey to Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport will be reduced from 2 hours to 20 minutes.

　　The traffic changes in the past 20 years have made Pan Honghui feel extremely profound.

The dizziness and vomiting when driving to the grandmother's house in Zhongshan City when I was a child, let her remember.

"It used to take 4 hours to accompany my mother from Foshan to Zhongshan, and at least 4 transfers. Now it’s a 40-minute drive to reach the highway. After I went to the United States, I came back to Zhongshan once in a year or two, and I couldn’t recognize the way every time. I feel deeply about the development and changes in it."

——“9+2” city direct connection and tandem development opportunities

　　As one of the regions with the highest GDP per capita and the strongest economic strength in China, all types of freight vehicles run non-stop on the main traffic roads of Guangdong 24 hours a day.

At present, the province has built 28 inter-provincial highways connecting Hong Kong and Macau; driving from Hong Kong to Zhuhai and Macau only takes 30 minutes, and the journey from Hong Kong to Guangzhou is shortened to less than one hour.

In terms of inter-city railway planning, the length of the high-speed railway in the Greater Bay Area exceeds 1,200 kilometers, and the Hengqin line, an extension of the Macau light rail, is under construction.

　　For Zhu Junwen, a young Hong Kong man who lives and works in Shenzhen, his feeling of living in a different place will be further diluted in the future.

Shenzhen Huanggang Port will be rebuilt in 2020. It is planned to introduce two subways and three urban rails. Shenzhen and Hong Kong residents can take the subway to achieve "seamless connection".

　　"Before 2018, I only traveled to and from the mainland occasionally. But now there are at least six or seven ports connecting Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is very convenient to return to Hong Kong no matter where you are in Shenzhen. If there is no traffic jam, you can reach it within an hour. "Zhu Junwen believes that the greatest convenience brought by the transportation infrastructure is to promote the flow of people in the region. The more convenient the transportation, the more people come and go, the more prosperous the economy.

　　In addition, the first subway train in the Greater Bay Area with a speed of 160 kilometers per hour will connect the downtown area of ​​Guangzhou and the Nansha Free Trade Zone in the future; after completion, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Port Maglev can reduce the journey to about 20 minutes, opening up the Guangzhou-Dongguan-Shenzhen Free Trade Zone Economic engines such as districts, development zones and high-tech zones.

—— "Hard Connectivity" Promotes "Soft Communication" The cities in the Greater Bay Area show their respective effects

　　Physical changes have also adjusted the perception of distance in the hearts of residents in the Greater Bay Area, and changed the arrangements of life and work.

　　Today, in the Greater Bay Area, from product development to launch, the cities are linked together in one go.

Xie Zhiheng, a Hong Kong native who started a surgical robotics business in Dongguan, said that he and his team will conduct algorithm exchange research at a university in Hong Kong, and then combine with the software products provided by Shenzhen, then go to Guangzhou for verification, and then go to Dongguan for production. Finally, The resulting series of products will be exhibited in Zhuhai.

　　Hong Kong Youth, Wang Baidong, who started his business in Huizhou, Guangdong, told reporters that for Hong Kong people working in cities in the Greater Bay Area, nowadays, it is Hong Kong to get in the car and get off the car to pass through.

　　Wang Baidong said: "We get to Shenzhen within an hour, and the transportation methods for round trip are more diverse. We can choose high-speed rail, subway, shared car, etc. On the other hand, the convenience of transportation also allows more Hong Kong friends to travel between the two places frequently. Cultural exchanges between the two places." (End)