Highlights Frequently, the first privately-owned high-speed rail project starts static acceptance
◎Reporter Jiao Yang
On August 15th, my country’s first privately-owned high-speed railway—Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan Railway started static acceptance, marking that the project has officially entered the completion acceptance stage, and the construction of the project has ushered in a key node and made important progress.
The Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan Railway is an important part of the national coastal railway's fast passenger transport corridor, connecting Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Taizhou, with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour and a total length of about 266.9 kilometers.
The Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan Railway is one of the first 8 social capital investment railway demonstration projects in China. It is also the first private-owned high-speed railway in China. Private capital accounts for 51%.
On August 16, 2013, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Opinions on Reforming the Railway Investment and Financing System and Accelerating Railway Construction", proposing to fully open the railway construction market and open intercity railways, urban (suburban) railways, and railways to local governments and social capital. The ownership and management rights of resource development railways and branch railways shall encourage social capital to invest in the construction of railways.
In December 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission promulgated the country's first batch of 8 demonstration projects for private capital investment railways, among which the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan Railway was listed.
On September 11, 2017, the Zhejiang Provincial Government and the private consortium led by Fosun Group formally signed the "Hangshao-Taiwan Railway PPP Project Investment Contract".
"The investment and financing method of the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan railway project is the first in China. It has tried and innovated in terms of transaction structure, equity setting, return mechanism, and risk sharing mechanism, and has a positive effect on stimulating social capital to participate in infrastructure construction and deepening the reform of the railway investment and financing system. Significance." Wu Peirong, Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan Railway Company, introduced that through in-depth cooperation with multiple parties, it has effectively solved the financing problems of privately held high-speed rail projects, guaranteed project construction funds, and created the "Hang-Shao-Tai model" of my country's railway investment and financing reforms. .
Relevant experience has been promoted and practiced in a number of high-speed rail PPP projects, and has played a demonstrative role in "first try, first".
The Jiaojiang Bridge on the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan Railway and the Taizhou Central Station are the highlights of the design and construction of the entire line.
"The Jiaojiang Bridge is the first two-way four-line high-speed railway cable-stayed bridge in China, and it is also the world's largest span four-line high-speed railway continuous steel truss cable-stayed bridge." said Li Liang, head of the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan railway design technology of the China Railway Construction Railway Fifth Institute, Jiaojiang The extra-large bridge is 5.3 kilometers long and is a four-lane high-speed double-truss cable-stayed bridge. The main bridge span is 480 meters long, setting the highest level of high-speed rail construction in terms of bridge design and construction difficulty.
"The construction site of the Jiaojiang Bridge is close to the mouth of the Jiaojiang River, and the main channel of the daytime shipping is frequent. At the same time, the hydrological conditions of the Jiaojiang River are complex, with frequent tides and extremely high tidal flow rates. The design needs to take into account the characteristics of four lines, wide trusses, large spans, and high speeds. In the end, the main span of 480 meters was chosen to "one span" across the trajectory line, while meeting the needs of navigation, flood control, force and landscape." Li Liang said, the steel truss girder adopts a curve to form a bridge line, and the beam line is in line with The track line type is extremely matched. While optimizing the line spacing, it not only saves the approach bridge investment, but also reduces the construction scale.
The Taizhou Central Station, the largest station building project of the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taiwan Railway, is my country’s first groundbreaking "station-city integration" model station building.
"A modern high-speed railway station building that integrates landscapes, stations and cities, three-dimensional integration of transportation, complex functional spaces, efficient transfers, and a green and ecological collection of'five in one'." Li Liang said that this new design creates a "time and space" for the city. Door".
Taizhou Central Station is designed with "Mountain and Sea Taizhou·Silk Road Surge" as the design concept, combining regional culture with the characteristics of the times. The station building is based on the unique mountain and sea landscape of Taizhou as the prototype, and the soft curved surface interweaves and changes to symbolize the continuous artistic conception of mountains and waters. It is like the intersection of mountains and rivers, harmonious and inclusive.
"As the first groundbreaking'station-city integration' model station building in my country's high-speed rail station building construction, Taizhou Central Station will become a gateway connecting Taizhou and developed economic zones, and will closely link Taizhou and the Yangtze River Delta economic circle." Li Liang said.
It is reported that the Hangzhou-Shaotai project adopts the mode of "build-own-operate-transfer". The government authorizes the project company to be responsible for investment, construction, operation, maintenance, and transfer. After the expiration of the operation period, the project company transfers all project assets to the government free of charge. square.
The project cooperation period is 34 years, of which the construction period is 4 years and the operation period is 30 years.