China News Service, Guangzhou, July 31 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) In the integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, how to achieve high-quality development of rail transit construction?
The seminar on "Infrastructure Pilot Construction and High-quality Development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Rail Transit Pilot and Guangzhou's High-quality Development" was held in Guangzhou recently. Experts, scholars and representatives of central enterprises from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou participated in the seminar to promote Suggestions and suggestions for the interconnection of the Greater Bay Area and accelerating the construction of the "Greater Bay Area on Track".
Yang Lifeng, an expert from the Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute, said that the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is based on the development of rail transit. Only with fast and convenient transportation access between cities in the Bay Area can various elements be efficiently allocated.
Xue Bingjie, general manager of the South China Region of the Traffic Engineering Inspection Center of the Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, suggested that the Greater Bay Area should take the integration of comprehensive transportation as the first breakthrough node, and gradually form "arterial railways, intercity railways, urban express lines, and urban subways". A four-level rail transit network can meet the needs of integrated development among urban agglomerations in the Bay Area.
The second-level inspector of the Guangdong Provincial Party School and the director of the Urbanization Research Center stated that, looking at the characteristics of rail transit in world-class bay areas such as Tokyo Bay Area, you can walk about 800 meters from the production and living areas to the subway entrance.
Compared with the international first-class cities in the Bay Area, Guangzhou's rail transit construction still has a certain distance. How to build a city center hub system and build a great Bay Area city center is an urgent issue.
The statement also believes that the construction of rail transit infrastructure requires a lot of capital, and the innovation of investment and financing models is imminent.
Li Zhenqing, chairman of Beijing Zhongjing Taihang Fund Management Co., Ltd., said that in the past, urban infrastructure construction mainly relied on the investment and financing model that the government contributed capital to start and state-owned enterprises completed construction with bank loans, which put local governments and state-owned enterprises under huge debt repayment pressure.
In recent years, due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the willingness of local governments and state-owned enterprises to increase huge debts for rail transit has weakened.
Li Zhenqing said that it is recommended to take Guangzhou as a pilot area to carry out innovative practices on urban infrastructure investment and financing models.
The Beijing-Taihang Fund plans to spend 100 billion yuan to actively participate in rail transit facilities.
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