"Nine cities is one city.". At present, the sons and daughters of Jingchu have deeply studied and implemented the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, fully implemented the spirit of the important speech made by General Secretary Xi Jinping when he inspected Hubei and participated in the deliberations of the Hubei delegation, anchored the wuhan city circle to build an "important growth pole in the country", and focused on the six blueprints of "convenience, innovation, openness, sharing, green and vitality", and made every effort to build the most dynamic, competitive and influential provincial city circle, and strive to create "leading Hubei, supporting the central region, radiating the whole country, and integrating into the world" The national important growth pole.
Reporter Jiang Xueqing: Taking the subway to commute to work is not only the standard of urban life, but now, it is also the standard of Wuhan's urban circle. Taking Metro Line 11, it only takes 3 minutes and 31 seconds to reach Gedian in Ezhou from Zuoling in Wuhan. Compared with the scale of the 360-kilometer line network and 240 stations of the Wuhan Metro, the Gedian section is 3.7 kilometers long, which is only a "small step" to step out of the city, but it is also a "big step" for the integration and development of convenient urban circles.
Guo Mengya, who lives in Gedian in Ezhou, works in Wuhan's East Lake High-tech Zone. The convenient subway transportation makes her "commuter road" have no fatigue of running around in different places, only the comfort of the same city.
Passenger Guo Mengya: Every day I take the subway, the time on the road is only a quarter of an hour, and then I feel that we are living in a city. When this line was first opened, there were not many people, and now in the morning and evening rush hour, there is also a queue.
Data from Gedian South Station confirms Xiao Guo's feelings: the average daily passenger flow of the station has increased from less than 3,000 at the beginning of this year to 6,500 now, more than 70% of the expected average daily passenger flow.
Li Cheng, duty station manager of Gedian South Station of Wuhan Metro Line 11: The average daily passenger flow of Gedian South Station has exceeded 10,000 passengers, which is comparable to the passenger flow of stations in the central urban area of Wuhan. It is expected that the passenger flow will become higher and higher in the future, and the connection between Wuhan and Ezhou will become closer and closer.
Reporter Jiang Xueqing: The convenient life of Wuhan's urban circle will continue to extend with the construction of a three-dimensional transportation network. In the future, we can take the subway to Huangshi, Xiaogan, Xiantao, Hanchuan, take the city rail across the city to commute, and will become the daily life of more people in the future.
Reporter Zhang Chao: Speeding forward is the development speed of the three-dimensional transportation network in Wuhan's urban circle. Here is the Wuhan-Dawu Expressway under construction, and my current location is the Xidahe Bridge in Dawu County, and the project is currently in the peak period of construction. The Wuhan-Dawu Expressway is expected to be completed and opened to traffic next year, when it will take only 1 hour to reach Wuhan, which is nearly half the time it takes. After the expressway is opened to traffic, it will form a "well" shaped highway network with the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway, the Hurong Expressway and the Mazhu Expressway, reshaping the new advantages of the old area.
With a total length of 77 kilometers, the Wuhan-Dawu Expressway is one of the 14 high-speed radial lines in Wuhan in the layout plan of the "Nine Vertical, Five Horizontal and Three Rings" Expressway Layout Plan of Hubei Provincial Highway Planning Outline (2011-2030), and is also a fast track connecting Wuhan to the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration in the north.
Wang Siwang, project manager of Wuhan University Expressway Sibiao of CCCC Second Aviation Bureau: Wuhan to Dawu Expressway is an important part of Wuhan's "one-hour city circle", after the completion of the project, the industrial chain of Wuhan City can be extended to the north, effectively reducing the time cost, capital cost and logistics cost of enterprises, while the mountain treasures of the old revolutionary area of Dabie Mountain can come out, and can further develop the red resources of the old area of Dabie Mountain.
At present, a number of expressway "rays" in the Wuhan urban circle will be launched in unison: within 3 years, wuhan to Yangxin, Ezhou airport expressway phase I, Wuhan Qiaokou to Xiaogan expressway phase II will be completed, Ehuang second river crossing channel, Wuhan via Tianmen to Yichang, Wuhan to Songzi, Tongshan to Wuning and other expressways will start construction. The urban circle has initially realized the mutual integration and interconnection of trunk railways, intercity railways and urban suburban railways, and the cities in the circle have basically achieved one-hour access to Wuhan.
Zou Wei, professor of the Department of Economics of Wuhan University Business School: We have always been a transportation hub with iron and water, known as the "motherland overpass". I think that compared with other urban circles, the Wuhan City Circle started earlier and developed earlier in forming an interconnected convenient circle and convenient road network. Now not only the road network is connected to each other, but also to further open the public transport of the city circle, but also through the extension to the field, the advantages of the Wuhan Free Trade Zone, the various advantages of the port and the airport are all connected, so that the 9 cities in the Wuhan city circle are really like a city and seek common development. I think the Wuhan city circle is promising in this pattern.
According to the "Three-year Action Plan for the Development of The Wuhan Urban Circle with the City", by 2023, a number of major projects in the fields of transportation, water conservancy, energy, information and municipal administration will be built in the urban circle, the interconnection of regional infrastructure will be basically realized, and the density of the high-speed road network will reach 2 km/km2. Open the "broken head road" and smooth the "bottleneck road" within the time limit to create a "city circle on the track". With the implementation of the three-year action plan, a large number of transportation infrastructure is stepping up construction, and more than 40 counties and municipalities in the "1+8" urban circle are stringing beads into chains and connecting into networks.
Li Chunyang, president of the Wuhan City Circle Research Association: In the next step, we will give full play to the advantages of our Yangtze River and Hanjiang waterways from the transportation level, accelerate the construction of an international comprehensive transportation hub, build a comprehensive transportation network with 1-hour commuting in the Wuhan City Circle, 2 hours access to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, and 3-hour coverage of major cities across the country, and build a "nine-province thoroughfare" in the new era; the second is to build a super "meter-shaped" high-speed rail hub network in twelve directions to build an important high-speed rail hub in the country; the third is the high-speed and expressway network. We must build a road network system with Wuhan as the core of the "seven rings and twenty-four shots and multiple links"; fourth, we must make every effort to build a dual hub of the central international aviation portal, implement the expansion project of Tianhe Airport, and accelerate the construction of the third runway; fifth, accelerate the construction of our shipping center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, consolidate and open up the ports of Wuhan and Huangshi to the domestic coast, as well as the near-ocean routes in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and build Wuhan and Huangshi into important hub ports in the central region.
Rong media reporters: Liu Ying, Chen Shuang, Ye Yulin, Zhang Chao, Xu Tangjie, Tu Jie, Jiang Xueqing
Editor: He Zhao, Lu Yanli