What are the considerations behind adding 60,000 kilometers of national highways?
Our reporter Du Xin
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The "National Highway Network Planning (2013-2030)" released in 2013 proposed that the total planning scale of the national highway network is about 401,000 kilometers.
The "National Highway Network Planning" released recently proposed a layout plan for the national highway network to 2035, with a total scale of about 461,000 kilometers.
More than half of the new national highways are located in the western region, and the connection coverage of national highways to small and medium-sized cities and county towns has been further strengthened, and the convenient connection between prefectures and cities has been enhanced.
Recently, with the approval of the State Council, the "National Highway Network Planning" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning") has been officially announced.
Since the reform and opening up, my country has successively promulgated four national-level national highway networks, including the National Trunk Highway Network (Trial Plan), National Highway Trunk System Planning, National Expressway Network Planning, and National Highway Network Planning (2013-2030). Trunk road planning.
Among them, the "National Highway Network Planning (2013-2030)" released in 2013 proposed that the total planning scale of the national highway network is about 401,000 kilometers.
The "Planning" has revised and adjusted this, and proposed a layout plan for the national road network to 2035, with a total scale of about 461,000 kilometers.
From 401,000 kilometers to 461,000 kilometers, where will the new roads lead?
What is the consideration?
What will it bring to the people?
Which roads are added?
According to the division of administrative levels, my country's highways are divided into national highways, provincial highways and rural highways.
Through the efforts of all parties, by the end of 2021, 124,000 kilometers of national highways will be built, basically covering prefecture-level administrative centers; the mileage of ordinary national highways will reach 258,000 kilometers, basically covering county-level and above administrative regions and border ports open all year round.
Compared with the 2013 version of the plan, the total size of the "Plan" has increased by about 60,000 kilometers.
Among them, the net added mileage of national expressways is about 26,000 kilometers. The main skeleton of 7 capital radial lines, 11 north-south vertical lines, and 18 east-west horizontal lines has not changed, mainly due to the addition of 12 metropolitan ring lines and 11 parallel lines. With 58 connecting lines, 6 existing planned routes have been adjusted; the net mileage of ordinary national highways is about 34,000 kilometers, 101 connecting lines have been added, and 41 existing planned routes have been adjusted.
"More than half of the newly added national highways are located in the western region, mainly to improve the transportation conditions in and out of Xinjiang and Tibet, enhance the capacity of the new land-sea corridor in the west, strengthen the hub function of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, and strengthen the border-to-border and other key areas. Road network resilience, improving the efficiency of high-quality industrial resources connectivity, etc." Wang Songbo, deputy director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Ministry of Transport, said for example that the additional ordinary national highway from Baiyu in Sichuan to Bomi in Tibet has opened up a new road between national highways G317 and G318. access to Tibet.
National highways such as Sichuan Pingshan to Guizhou Xingyi and Guizhou Guiyang to Guangxi Beihai have been added to the new western land-sea passage.
Why add it?
"At present, my country is still in a period of rapid urbanization development, and will rely on urban agglomerations and metropolitan circles to promote coordinated, coordinated, and characteristic development of large, medium and small cities and small towns. The population economy and resource factors generally show a trend of agglomeration in urban agglomerations and metropolitan circles. trend." Wang Songbo said.
In this regard, the "Planning" strengthens the national highway network from the aspects of strengthening the transportation connection between the core cities of the urban agglomeration, supporting the integrated development of the transportation of the urban agglomeration, and enhancing the radiation and driving ability of the central city.
For example, 12 Metropolitan Circle Lines serving mega and mega cities have been added, including Harbin Metropolitan Circle Line, Zhengzhou Metropolitan Circle Line, and Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Line.
At the same time, the "Planning" further strengthens the connection coverage of national highways to small and medium-sized cities and county towns, and enhances the convenient connection between prefectures and cities.
For example, routes such as Quanzhou in Fujian to Meizhou in Guangdong, and Fuzhou in Jiangxi to Ji'an in Jiangxi have been added, expanding the coverage of national expressways to all cities and counties with a population of more than 100,000 in urban areas.
With the in-depth implementation of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, my country's open pattern of linkage between land and sea, and two-way mutual assistance between the east and the west is accelerating.
In order to strengthen the interconnection with neighboring countries, the "Planning" further optimizes the connection between the national highway network and the Asian Highway network and the International Economic Cooperation Corridor, and strengthens the connection with border ports and counties and cities.
For example, the connection of national highways has been added to important ports such as Ganqimaodu in Inner Mongolia and Ceke in Inner Mongolia.
Wang Songbo introduced that in order to support the construction of a national security strategic barrier and a strong and stable modern border and coastal defense system, the "Planning" also focuses on the construction of national highways as the main body, connecting important nodes such as prefecture-level administrative centers in border and coastal areas. Channels, and further improve the layout of national highways along the border and road routes to the border.
There are also new routes to enhance the connection with other modes of transportation and the development of industrial integration.
The "Planning" focuses on adding a number of ordinary national road routes, strengthening the connection to important scenic spots and transportation hubs.
For example, by adding new routes such as Hulunbuir in Inner Mongolia to Handa in Inner Mongolia, Qinzhou in Guangxi to Chongzuo in Guangxi, etc., the full coverage of 25 national tourist scenic roads by ordinary national highways has been realized.
Wang Songbo said that the general idea of the layout of the "Planning" is to "use enough stock to make optimal increments", and pay more attention to accurate and effective supply for new routes.
What can you bring to the people?
According to the "Planning", all counties and cities across the country will be able to access ordinary national highways within 15 minutes, and prefecture-level administrative centers and cities and counties with a population of more than 100,000 will be able to access national expressways within 30 minutes.
Shi Liangqing, deputy director of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, said that although these urban counties with a population of more than 100,000 to be connected by national highways only account for 44% of the total number of cities and counties in the country, they carry 74% of the population, which can be better. Taking into account both efficiency and fairness, it is also in line with my country's basic national conditions and the needs of urbanization development.
After the completion of the road network in the "Planning", a multi-center networked road grid will be formed with "multi-center radiation" of urban agglomerations, "multi-channel connectivity" between districts, provinces and inter-groups, and "multi-line complementarity" of important channels.
Wang Songbo said that the same-day round-trip from the provincial capital in the eastern and central regions to the prefectural city, half-day round-trip from the prefecture to the county, and the same-day arrival from the provincial capital in the western region to the city will be realized; the national mega-city and the national central city metropolitan area will be able to meet the one-hour commute needs.
Wang Dongjie, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Transportation, said that the "Planning" has added a number of key projects such as Hangzhou-Shangrao Expressway, Yangzhou-Yueqing Expressway, and Hangzhou Metropolitan Ring Road to accelerate the realization of Hangzhou to prefecture-level cities and prefecture-level cities to the institute. It has jurisdiction over three "1-hour traffic circles" in counties (cities) and the main urban area of the city, which strongly supports the construction of "123 National Travel Traffic Circles".
The "Plan" also makes the connection and integration smoother.
The national highway network comprehensively covers 5A-level scenic spots, national-level scenic spots, world cultural and natural heritage (protected areas), and strengthens the supporting and driving role of road traffic in the development of the tourism industry; at the same time, it connects all important transportation hubs in the country, including 74 important ports, 106 railway hubs, 453 civil aviation transport airports.