Gathering momentum to achieve new breakthroughs Play a new movement of hub development

Recently, the Ministry of Transport, the State Railway Administration, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the State Post Bureau, and the China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. jointly issued the "14th Five-Year Development Plan for the Modern Comprehensive Transportation Hub System" (hereinafter referred to as the "Hub Plan"), which is the first 5-year special plan to implement the "Outline for the Construction of a Transportation Power" and the "Outline of the National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning" on the task of "building a multi-level and integrated comprehensive transportation hub system".

Based on the new development stage, the "Hub Planning" is based on the new development stage, completely, accurately and comprehensively implements the new development concept, serves to build a new development pattern, takes accelerating the construction of a transportation power as the overall goal, and strives to promote the development of comprehensive transportation hubs to achieve new breakthroughs, so as to provide strong support for the construction of a modern and high-quality national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, accelerating the formation of a modern comprehensive transportation system, and helping transportation to be a pioneer in China's modernization. We must deeply understand the new positioning of the development of comprehensive transportation hubs in the new era, accurately grasp the new ideas of hub development, fully implement new measures for hub development, and jointly play a new movement of hub development.

Deeply understand the new positioning of hub development in the new era

The comprehensive transportation hub is the key node for building a modern comprehensive transportation system, an important window for reflecting the level of high-quality comprehensive transportation services, and an important carrier for gathering the potential energy of comprehensive transportation development and accelerating the construction of a transportation power. Since the reform of the majority of the ministry of transport system in 2008, the Ministry of Transport has continued to promote the construction of a comprehensive passenger transport hub, a comprehensive freight hub and a hub collection and transportation system through a series of measures such as planning guidance, financial support and technical guidance, and the construction of various modes of hub stations has gradually realized the development from decentralized layout to centralized layout and integrated integration, and the development of comprehensive transportation hubs in the mainland has achieved positive results.

At present, the total mileage of the mainland's comprehensive transportation network has exceeded 6 million kilometers, the travel time of passengers and goods in transit has been greatly shortened, and the connection and conversion time between different modes of transportation and different transportation lines accounts for a relatively high proportion of the whole traffic service, which has become a difficult problem in improving the efficiency of the comprehensive transportation network. With the acceleration of the construction of a strong transportation country and the continuous improvement of the layout of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, the status and role of the comprehensive transportation hub in improving the efficiency of the comprehensive transportation combination, optimizing the transportation structure, improving the urban function, promoting the integration and development of transportation and other industries, and supporting the construction of the modern logistics system have become more prominent, and the strategic demand for strengthening the construction of the comprehensive transportation hub system has been further enhanced.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Transport for the first time took the "Hub Plan" as a key special plan juxtaposed with railways, highways, water transport, civil aviation and postal services, and jointly issued and implemented by multiple departments, providing guidance for promoting the development of hubs to achieve overall planning, systematic promotion and multi-party coordination. Accurately understanding the new positioning of the development of comprehensive transportation hubs in the new era, and deeply understanding the key position of hubs in anchoring and supporting the construction of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, are conducive to enhancing the strategic traction and element agglomeration capacity of hubs in the development of the national economy, strengthening the integration and linkage of hubs and land space, towns and industrial development, and creating a new situation of high-quality development of hubs.

Accurately grasp the new ideas for the development of the hub

Compared with the strategic task requirements of the construction of the comprehensive transportation hub system, the current development of the mainland hub still has problems such as the systematic layout of the function layout, the level of integration of facility construction is not high, the network service capacity is not enough, and the innovation-driven and integrated development is insufficient. The "Hub Planning" embodies the "three changes" in the new era to accelerate the construction and development of the modern comprehensive transportation hub system, and promote the quality change, efficiency change and power change of hub development.

The first is to strengthen the connection of "single port stations" to optimize the transformation of "hub system". At present, the development of the mainland's comprehensive transportation hub has entered a period of historical opportunity for system optimization, interconnection into a network, and upgrading, and it is necessary to improve the integration, intensification, human culture and compound level of the hub on the basis of focusing on promoting the integration of different modes of transportation, and promote the dynamic balance of the supply and demand of hub services to a higher level. The "Hub Planning" emphasizes more emphasis on starting from the overall perspective and strategic positioning of the region and city, taking into account the layout of facilities, the connection of the line network, the supporting functions, the transportation organization, the service supply, etc., to accelerate the optimization of the entire hub system, improve the overall efficiency of the hub system, and provide higher quality services.

The second is to accelerate the "construction of facilities" to the comprehensive development of "construction and transportation management services". After more than 10 years of rapid construction, the number of port stations and service efficiency of the mainland comprehensive transportation hub has been significantly improved, such as the number of comprehensive passenger and cargo hub projects supported by the Ministry of Transport has exceeded 450, 80% of the newly built comprehensive passenger hubs have basically achieved convenient transfer within 200 meters, and the completion rate of multimodal transport in key comprehensive freight hubs has exceeded 87%. With the continuous enhancement of constraints on capital, land, environment and other elements, the development of comprehensive transportation hubs needs to continue to make up for the shortcomings of facilities, pay more attention to the overall planning of stock and incremental, domestic and international resource conditions, strengthen the focus on the whole life cycle of hub planning, construction, operation, management, service and so on, and improve the efficiency of resource utilization.

The third is the transformation from "department boosting" to "joint efforts". The construction and development of comprehensive transportation hub port stations and their collection and transportation systems involve urban planning, land use, environmental protection, municipal supporting facilities, traffic management and other fields and departments, and the planning and development of hub clusters and hub cities need to coordinate various elements such as hub port stations, line networks, and information in the region from a systematic perspective. To promote the construction and development of the comprehensive transportation hub system, we should strengthen the mutual cooperation between departments, regions, fields, and the central and local governments and different modes of transportation management departments, on the basis of giving full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, pay more attention to the initiative of local governments in the planning and layout of hubs, comprehensive coordination, standardized development, etc., strengthen the coordination and linkage of various departments, form a work synergy, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the hub.

Fully implement new initiatives for hub development

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, to promote the development of comprehensive transportation hubs to achieve new breakthroughs, we must adhere to the working principles of serving the people, system concepts, reform and innovation, and multi-party coordination, strive to improve the overall efficiency of the hub system, build a high-quality diversified service network, accelerate the high-quality development of hubs and innovation-driven development, and create a new situation in the development of hub economy.

Coordinate the "Trinity" to achieve overall optimization. First, in view of the problem of "less than 30% of the integrated comprehensive passenger transport hub, less than 30% of the freight hub with multimodal transport function, and less than 60% of the railway entry rate in the important port area of the coastal port", based on the principle of "unified planning, unified design, unified construction, and collaborative management", innovatively proposed to play the main role of the leading mode of transportation in the functional layout of the hub port station, the configuration of the interchange and reloading facilities and equipment, the construction management, etc., and promoted various modes of transportation in the hub port station, the hub port station and the collection and transportation system. The integrated development of the connecting system. Second, in view of the problem that "the radiation energy level of hub cities needs to be improved", with "internal and external connections" as the construction orientation, it is proposed to accurately grasp the functional positioning of hub cities, strengthen external transportation links and connections between inside and outside the city, and coordinate and promote the rational layout and construction of hub port stations, collection and transportation systems, and connection systems. The third is to focus on the four international comprehensive transportation hub clusters of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Chengdu-Chongqing Region Twin Cities Economic Circle, with "open coordination" as the construction orientation, accelerate the improvement of the global interconnection level and radiation energy level of the hub cluster, and promote the division of labor and cooperation and resource sharing of the cities in the cluster.

Strengthen the "three types of services" to achieve quality and efficiency. The first is to support the convenience and smoothness of travel services, promote the interconnection and opening up of international passenger transport networks, promote the improvement of domestic passenger transport network services and accelerate the development of intermodal transport, and improve the convenience of passenger travel throughout the chain of services. The second is to promote the economic efficiency of logistics services, promote the international logistics supply chain network to connect the world, promote the efficient development of domestic logistics networks and accelerate the development of the whole logistics chain, and improve the safety, openness and reliability of the logistics supply chain system. The third is to improve the supporting facilities of the hub according to local conditions, enhance the professional service functions, and improve the quality of professional service supply in response to the demand for professional services such as cold chain logistics, emergency logistics, hazardous chemical transportation, e-commerce express delivery, customized passenger transport, and tourist passenger transport.

Implement the "three major directions" to achieve high-quality development. The first is to accelerate the intelligent upgrading of comprehensive transportation hubs, build a comprehensive transportation hub information service platform, promote the intelligent upgrading of comprehensive passenger transportation hubs, and accelerate the development of smart comprehensive freight hubs. The second is to enhance the safety and security capabilities of comprehensive transportation hubs and improve the level of safety and emergency management of comprehensive passenger hubs and comprehensive freight hubs. The third is to promote the green and low-carbon development of comprehensive transportation hubs, build a green comprehensive passenger transport hub, and promote the green development of comprehensive freight hubs.

Strengthen the "two major innovations" to enhance the momentum of development. First, in terms of management innovation, the management mechanism and model for the construction of the national comprehensive transportation hub system are proposed, that is, to accelerate the establishment of a mechanism for the construction and development of hub clusters by ministerial and provincial cooperation, to guide and improve the development mechanism of hub cities led by local governments, and to encourage the management mode of integrated development and construction of hub ports and stations. Second, in terms of technological innovation, it is proposed to increase the intensity of research and development of new technologies, actively promote the in-depth integration and development of new technologies and hub planning, construction, operation and management, and strengthen the capacity building of scientific and technological innovation. The comprehensive transportation hub technology research and development innovation team of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport was selected as the innovation team in the key areas of the 2021 Transportation Industry Science and Technology Innovation Talent Promotion Plan, which strongly supported the accelerated implementation of the technological innovation task.

Promote the integration of "station industry city" to achieve coordinated development. The first is to accelerate the transformation and development of comprehensive transportation hubs, promote the transformation of comprehensive passenger transportation hubs into urban complexes, and the transformation and development of comprehensive freight hubs into logistics agglomeration areas. The second is to promote the deep integration of the "hub +" industry, open up a new space for the development of the airport economy, develop the cruise economy and the port economy, and cultivate new forms of the station economy.

The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for transportation to improve the facility network and accurately make up for shortcomings, an opportunity period to promote integration and improve service quality and efficiency, a period of deepening reform and innovation, transforming the development mode, and promoting the high-quality development of comprehensive transportation hubs, which will provide strong strategic support for transportation to be a pioneer in China's modernization.

Author: Yang Wenyin, President of the Planning Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport

【Source: Ganzhou Transportation Information Network_National Traffic Information】