What is the focus of Guangdong's future transportation construction? According to Yang Junbo, deputy director and spokesperson of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation, in 2021, the southern section of the Guangzhou-Foshan Ring Road and the Fo-Dongguan Intercity will be built in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Construction of the Shenzhen-Huizhou Intercity (Shenzhen Section) and Zhuhai 11 inter-city projects including Zhao; By 2035, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will realize a one-hour traffic circle in major cities, two hours by land to cities in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong, and northern Guangdong, three hours to major domestic cities, and major global cities. The city is accessible in about 12 hours.

The framework of the inter-city rail network in the Greater Bay Area will take shape in 2025

Yang Junbo revealed that Guangdong will further promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area’s transportation infrastructure, unblock the external communication channels of the Greater Bay Area, improve the level of internal connectivity, and promote the formation of a transportation infrastructure network with reasonable layout, complete functions, smooth connections, and efficient operations. The economic and social development of the district provides strong support.

It is reported that Guangdong will accelerate the construction of intercity and regional trunk railways in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the future, do a good job of top-level design topics such as intercity railway network planning, line connection, and operation scheduling, promote the integrated development of multi-level rail transit, and achieve resource intensive Integration of utilization and operation organization and inter-city interconnection of rail transit. In 2021, the southern section of the Guangzhou-Foshan Ring Road and the Fo-Dongguan Intercity will be completed, and 11 inter-city projects including Shenzhen-Hui Intercity (Shenzhen Section) and Zhuzhao Intercity will be newly started. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's external high-speed rail main corridor and intercity rail network skeleton will be initially formed in 2025.

In the future, Guangdong will also promote the construction of the Deep-Medium Corridor and the Huangmao Sea Corridor with quality and quantity. While advancing the interconnection in the Bay Area, it will further increase the scope of the Greater Bay Area to radiate the Southwestern region. At the same time, accelerate the advancement of the pre-stage work of the Lion Ocean Passage, the Lianhuashan Passage and other cross-river passage projects, steadily promote the reconstruction and expansion projects of the Shenhai, Shencen, Changshen, Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao highways, and accelerate the improvement of the "12 vertical, eight horizontal and two ring roads" "Sixteen Shots" highway main skeleton network.

At the same time, Guangdong will make every effort to promote the construction of world-class ports in Guangzhou Port, Shenzhen Port and Zhuhai Port, promote the expansion of the third runway of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, accelerate the preliminary work of the Pearl River Delta Hub (Guangzhou New) Airport, and upgrade Zhuhai , Huizhou Airport service capacity.

Guangdong focuses on building "Ten Major Projects" as a powerful country in transportation

Yang Junbo revealed that in the future, Guangdong will focus on building the "Ten Major Projects" as a powerful transportation country, including:

The first is to accelerate the construction of convenient and efficient comprehensive transportation channels, focusing on the implementation of cross-river and cross-sea channels, national expressway expansion, high-speed railways such as Guangzhan, Ganshen, Guangshanshan, Meilong, and the Pearl River Delta intercity rail network.

The second is to create a coordinated and open world-class port cluster, focusing on building the Guangzhou-Shenzhen international shipping center, and comprehensively enhancing the international competitiveness of the Greater Bay Area port cluster.

The third is to build a world-class airport cluster with global access, focusing on promoting the Pearl River Delta Hub (Guangzhou New) Airport and the expansion of Guangzhou Baiyun Airport and Shenzhen Baoan Airport.

The fourth is to build an integrated and efficient integrated transportation hub, focusing on promoting the construction of integrated passenger transportation hubs in Guangzhou, Baiyun, Nansha, Xili, Jiangmen, and large freight hubs in Guangzhou Datian, Shenzhen Pinghunan, Dongguan Shilong, and Foshan Sanshui.

The fifth is to build a high-quality tourist road system that integrates transportation and tourism, focusing on the construction of coastal tourist roads and Nanling ecological tourist roads.

The sixth is to build an environmentally friendly green transportation system, focusing on promoting the demonstration project of highway, railway, and river multimodal transportation and the demonstration project of hydrogen energy transportation.

The seventh is to create a ubiquitous and integrated smart transportation system, promote the digitization of all elements of transportation infrastructure, and vigorously develop autonomous driving and vehicle-road coordination systems.

Eighth, improve the comprehensive transportation management system and mechanism, promote the coordinated development of multiple transportation modes, and integrate the planning, construction and management of highways and urban roads.

Ninth is to build an advanced and applicable technical standard system, focusing on the development of complete sets of technologies for intelligent construction of cross-sea traffic cluster projects and technical standards for highway reconstruction and expansion.

Tenth is to build a high-quality transportation talent team, focusing on building an innovation platform, high-end think tank and labor training platform in the transportation field, and cultivating highly skilled transportation talents.

Counting the "13th Five-Year Plan" Transportation Construction in the Greater Bay Area

Land

The Greater Bay Area has newly built about 40 highways with 1,394 kilometers in Guangfo Zhao, Huawan, Wushen, Hehuiwan, etc. The density of highways in the core area reaches 8.9 kilometers per 100 square kilometers. People in all cities in the Pearl River Delta can get on the expressway within 30 minutes of traveling. Guangdong has newly added 8 expressways out of the province, including Guangfo Zhao and Wushen Expressways.

railway

Intercity railways such as Guangqing and Guangzhou East Ring are newly added in the Greater Bay Area, with a total operating mileage of 2,251 kilometers.

water transport

The number of water high-speed passenger routes in the Greater Bay Area has increased to 29. The four ports of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Dongguan on both sides of the Pearl River have entered the ranks of 100 million tons of large ports, and the container throughput of Guangzhou Port and Shenzhen Port ranks among the top in the world. In 2020, there will be 349 international container shipping lines berthing every week, with routes covering major ports in all countries in the world, and 86 pairs of friendly ports have been established with countries along the Belt and Road.

aviation

The two major airports in Guangzhou and Shenzhen are among the busiest large airports in the world, and the construction of a world-class airport cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is accelerated. Editor/Peng Xue