Text | Reporter of "Liaowang" News Weekly
◇At present, China has built the world's largest expressway network, covering 99% of urban areas and prefecture-level administrative centers with more than 200,000 people
◇"In the past, the road from Yanling to Jinggangshan in Jiangxi was a provincial road with many bends and narrow roads. It took two hours. After the high-speed, it can be reached in less than one hour."
◇"The construction of the national expressway network and the linkage of roads, railways and aviation are of great significance to the development of enterprises."
◇A number of expressways meet here, which has greatly promoted the flow of people, logistics, and capital, and will surely help Shanghai play a strong tone of domestic and international double-circulation
In 1988, the Shanghai-Jiamen Expressway, the first expressway in mainland China, was opened to traffic in Shanghai.
From dots to lines, lines and networks, the total mileage of expressways in China is about 160,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world.
The dotted high-speed service area has become a city card and an important window for turning passenger flow into economic benefits.
At present, China has built the world's largest expressway network, covering 99% of cities and prefecture-level administrative centers with more than 200,000 people in urban areas.
The highway network ran out of the acceleration of China's development, and also ran out of the future appearance of China's high-speed network.
Flying over the azaleas, the days are differently red
"If you want to expect the Red Army to come, the ridges will be full of Azalea..." Following a familiar melody, the reporter went to the Soviet area of the former Hunan old district in Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan.
It's another year of fragrant grass and green, azaleas blooming in different colors!
Viewed from the air, the criss-crossing highways are like streamers, connecting the old Soviet districts of the three provinces together.
From Changting, Fujian along the Xia-Rong highway all the way west, less than an hour, came to the "Cradle of the Republic"-Ruijin City, Jiangxi Province.
At the former site of the Traffic Management Bureau of the People’s Committee of the Interior of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, a map of the central Soviet area traffic arteries attracted the attention of reporters. On the drawing, 22 arterial roads centered on Ruijin extend all around.
"In the Soviet period, road accessibility was very low and people were inconvenient to travel." Zhong Yanlin, a cadre of the Party History Office of the Ruijin Municipal Party Committee, introduced. On November 12, 1933, the People’s Committee of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic issued Order No. 18. The "Central Government Road Construction Plan" was announced to mobilize the masses to build 22 arterial roads and branch roads in counties, districts and townships to develop economic circulation and commerce, facilitate mass exchanges, and repay the Soviet people's great contribution to defending the Soviet power.
Today, the Central Soviet Area's traffic arterial map has already become a reality.
“In the past, the road from Yanling to Jinggangshan in Jiangxi was a provincial highway with many bends and narrow roads. It took two hours. With the expressway, it can be reached in less than an hour." Participated in the expressway in Yanling County, Hunan Province Zeng Jianxin, the project construction worker, recalled the scene of land acquisition and road construction in the past, “I heard that the highway was going to be built, and the people along the line were all excited. They all understood one thing: to get rich, build roads first.”
"Ninghua, clear stream, naturalization, roads and forests, deep moss and slippery"... The scenes that Mao Zedong described in his poems have become history.
"From 1949 to 2021, the total length of roads in Ninghua County has grown from 37 kilometers to 2,206 kilometers, an increase of nearly 60 times." said Lin Guichang, director of the Transportation Bureau of Ninghua County, Fujian Province. The convenient and accessible road network enables local people to realize The long-cherished wish from "Walk" to "Walk well".
The increasingly dense highway network has effectively driven the local people to increase their income and become rich.
Driving about 3 kilometers from the exit of Ruijin North Expressway, you will come to the Huangbaiaobeigang Navel Orange Professional Cooperative in Ruijin City. The 20,000 mu of navel orange trees are like a green ocean, with white navel orange flowers dotted with refreshing fragrance.
Deng Daqing, chairman of the cooperative, told reporters that from 1998 to 2006, he had grown green plums and sweet oranges twice. Due to poor traffic, the fruit in the garden could not be sold, and he owed more than 200,000 yuan in debt at a loss.
In 2009 and 2010, Xia-Rong Expressway and Ruijin Section of Ji-Guang Expressway were opened to traffic one after another. Deng Daqing decided to continue his entrepreneurial dream.
"The navel orange base is close to the high-speed entrances and exits, and large trucks can drive to the fields. The 80,000 tons of navel oranges planted by the cooperative last year were sold out in less than two months." Deng Daqing told reporters that the cooperative has currently driven 5 surrounding villages. Of farmers have increased their income and become rich.
The unimpeded road network has turned the old Soviet area into a "new hot spot" for businessmen to invest and start businesses.
Loading and unloading trucks shuttle back and forth, workers are processing integrated boards on the assembly line... The production workshop of Mingwei Furniture Company, Furniture Industrial Park, Shibi Town, Ninghua County, the machine roars, and the crowd is busy.
The person in charge of the company, Zhang Xianming, was previously engaged in furniture production abroad. At the end of 2019, he chose to return to his hometown to start his own business because of the location advantage of the Furniture Industrial Park near the highway exit.
"Our materials need to be imported and our products are to be exported. It is close to the expressway, which can greatly reduce the logistics cost of the company."
Villager Zhang Binglong used to work in Xiamen, Quanzhou and other places. After the opening of the Shek Pik Furniture Industrial Park in May last year, he found a job in the park.
He said: "Now I can earn about 4,000 yuan a month, and I can take care of my home by doing things at the door, and I can do more with one stone."
The reporter learned that since the opening of the Shek Pik Furniture Industrial Park, 7 enterprises have been put into operation one after another, driving more than 300 local people to find employment.
"Inconvenience in transportation used to be a major bottleneck restricting the development of Yanling's industry." Fu Xueyong, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Yanling Industrial Concentration Zone, told reporters that the traffic in Yanling is now accessible, attracting many people to invest and build factories.
Wearing “red army uniforms”, walking “red army roads”, eating “red army meals”... The reporter saw along the way that the highway connected a large number of red scenic spots in Fujian, Jiangxi and Hunan, allowing more and more people to walk into the red scenic spots and experience Red culture.
Yang Shuangyan, curator of the Red Army Slogan Museum in Yanling County, said that Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan are connected by mountains and rivers and are closely related to each other. They are all major provinces with red tourism resources. As the traffic between the three places becomes more convenient, the development of the red tourism industry in the old Soviet area is promising.
Acceleration of a pair of sports shoes
Cutting, pressing, shaping, inspection...A few days ago, in the evening, workers in the Peak (China) Co., Ltd. workshop in Fengze District, Quanzhou, were busy producing. Pairs of processed sports shoes were packed in boxes and waited for storage. Ship.
"Products leave the factory and warehouse, and express orders can be issued at night. Online customers across the country can receive express parcels within 2 to 5 days depending on the distance." said Wang Qiong, director of the logistics management center of Peak (China) Co., Ltd., Peak Our overseas export business covers the five continents of Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Under the premise of good customs declaration materials, the exported goods can be delivered to the terminal within one working day.
Quanzhou, Fujian is a well-known manufacturing production base in my country, and sports shoes are one of the most representative industries here.
The Quanxia Expressway passes through the city here, and the economic activity here can be clearly felt from the dense traffic flow.
Development spurs traffic demand, and traffic drives economic development.
The mutual promotion and common development of industry and transportation are clearly reflected in the development of the footwear industry in Quanzhou.
"Quan-Xia Expressway is the earliest expressway constructed in the Fujian section of Shenhai Expressway, and it is also the first expressway in Fujian Province." Shen Jinhong, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Xiamen Expressway Management Co., Ltd. of Fujian Province, said that since its completion and opening to traffic at the end of 1997, The traffic volume of Quanxia Expressway has increased by 8 times. In 2010, it was expanded to a two-way eight-lane road. By 2017, the traffic volume once again exceeded the design volume.
Quanzhou shoe industry has thus grown rapidly, from an industrial scale of 5 billion yuan in 1998 to a huge industrial cluster with an output value of over 100 billion yuan today.
According to Wu Yinghong, deputy director of the Quanzhou Expressway Construction Headquarters Office, Quanzhou has built 14 expressways (sections), with a total mileage of 680 kilometers open to traffic, and an expressway density of about 6 kilometers/100 square kilometers, making it the seat of county (city) government. Within 15 minutes, most towns and villages can get on the highway within half an hour.
Driven by the transportation infrastructure and industry, the business format continues to evolve, and the production and circulation of sports shoes in Quanzhou has entered "acceleration".
"When Peak was founded in the 1990s, customers across the country first ordered and picked up the goods themselves. In recent years, some suppliers have begun to provide express delivery services directly from the headquarters warehouse to the store, which can reach the terminal store faster. Online, it turns out 5-7 days of e-commerce items can now be compressed to 2 to 5 days to reach customers." Wang Qiong said.
"Now many Quanzhou sports brands have begun to reach strategic cooperation with logistics companies, adopting'extremely effective front' logistics solutions." Ke Jianxing, head of the public affairs department of Quanzhou Shunfeng Transportation Co., Ltd., said that the products produced by the factory are directly stored in the logistics storage center. , Consumers within 800 kilometers can realize "order on the same day, and delivery the next day."
With the expressway as the "main artery", the communication between Quanzhou and the outside world is faster, closer, wider, and more accessible.
Cizao Town, which is close to the Jinjiang exit of Quanxia Expressway, further shows the role of transportation location advantages in industrial development.
In recent years, many logistics companies such as SF Express, JD.com, Best and so on have deployed, and the logistics and commerce industry has risen rapidly, becoming a new local economic growth point.
The road network connects Quanzhou, Xiamen, and Zhangzhou, and the integration and development of the "Golden Triangle" in southern Fujian has been accelerating.
In 2020, Xiamen Port will complete a container throughput of 11.4053 million TEUs, exceeding 10 million TEUs for 4 consecutive years.
Among them, clothing, shoes, hats, electronic products, mechanical equipment, home building materials and other products from Quanzhou are one of the important export sources.
"Regardless of whether it is offline or online business, consumers have put forward higher requirements for the timeliness and convenience of transportation. The construction of the national expressway network and the linkage of roads, railways and aviation are of great significance to the development of enterprises." Say.
"High Speed" Boosts Double Cycle
Many expressways meet in Shanghai, quickly connecting Shanghai with all parts of the country.
"Recently, the supply of automotive chips is relatively tight. In the past, we used to transport automotive chips from Shenzhen to the SAIC production plant in 31 hours, but now people on high-speed parking and parking can be delivered within 16 hours." Vice President of Tiandi Huayu South China Division Manager Chen Yinfeng said.
"We provide logistics guarantees for the production of enterprises through expressways extending in all directions." Chen Yinfeng, who has been engaged in logistics for many years, said that the development of expressways in recent years has significantly improved customers' time-sensitive experience of logistics products, and also allowed logistics enterprises to focus on expressways more safely. Highway investment in network layout.
The highway allowed the production factors to flow fully and at the same time changed the life of the city.
Before 8 o'clock in the morning, a line was lined up in front of the long-established Taikang Food Store on Nanjing East Road, Shanghai.
"I want to buy a box of freshly baked mooncakes with fresh meat in the morning, and drive to my relatives in Suzhou to taste it." said Mr. Wu, a citizen.
Zhu Hong, the relevant person in charge of the Huangpu District Commerce Committee of Shanghai, said that after the expansion project of Nanjing East Road Pedestrian Street was completed, the time-honored brand was revitalized, attracting flagship stores of national brands such as Huawei and Anta. Many international brands’ first stores in China chose to settle in Shanghai. It has attracted more and more self-driving people from all over to experience the new feeling of "Shanghai Shopping".
This also drives and extends more business opportunities.
"Relying on the advantages of large transportation and exhibitions, we will form a new model of international trade for all categories of the entire industry chain." said Zhu Jing, marketing director of Shanghai Hongqiao International Import Commodities Exhibition and Sales Co., Ltd.
At present, Hongqiao Pinhui has gathered more than 2,000 brands and more than 20,000 products from more than 70 countries and regions, 70% of which come from global exhibitors at the CIIE.
In February of this year, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hongqiao International Opening Hub" approved by the State Council and issued by the National Development and Reform Commission was released, clarifying that by 2035, the Hongqiao International Opening Hub will be fully completed, which will promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and enhance my country's opening-up level. , An important carrier to enhance the new advantages of international competition and cooperation.
Turn your eyes from the transportation hub on the west side of Shanghai to the deep-water port on the east side——
Since Yangshan Phase IV, the world's largest single-unit container terminal with the highest degree of comprehensive automation, has been put into use for three years, its throughput has increased year by year.
In 2020, under the influence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, it will still increase by 28%, exceeding 4.2 million TEUs.
It is expected to achieve full-load operation in 2023, reaching about 7 million TEUs.
Shanghai, where "high-speed" converges, is exploring the future of smart highways.
Sun Jinyu, deputy general manager of Shangdong Branch of SIPG, introduced to reporters that nearly half of the logistics turnover of Yangshan Phase IV is waterway turnover, and expressways have played an important role.
In recent years, self-driving logistics vehicles have been tested here. With the development of smart highways, it will be more convenient for self-driving to enter and exit the port area.
This year’s Shanghai Municipal Government Work Report stated that Shanghai will focus on building the central node of the domestic big cycle and the strategic link between the domestic and international double cycles, and actively serve and integrate into the new development pattern. Shanghai has a unique geographical advantage and an open city character. Many expressways meet here, which greatly promotes the flow of people, logistics, and capital, and will surely help Shanghai play a strong tone of domestic and international double circulation.