Today, the reporter learned from the press briefing on the third anniversary of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta as a national strategy that in the past three years, the total economic volume of the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta has increased from 24.1% in 2018 to 24.5% in the first half of this year, and the contribution to the national economy has been further improved. In addition, it is worth noting that combined with the territorial spatial planning of the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone, the intercity railway will plan a new Shanghai-Sujia line, which will connect the two districts and counties of Shanghai Qingpu, Jiangsu Wujiang and Zhejiang Jiashan and Hongqiao in the demonstration area.
Shanghai Sujia Line from Hongqiao Business District in the east, Jiashan Station in the south to connect to Hujia Intercity, west to Wujiang Station to connect to Rutongsu Lake Intercity, a total length of about 100 kilometers, a total of Hongqiao Station, Water Town Living Room Station, Qingpu New Town Station, Suzhou South Railway Station, Wujiang Station, Jiashan Station and other 15 stations, is the series of demonstration areas hongqiao business district power core, Qingpu New Town, Dianshan Lake innovation green core, Xicen Science and Technology Innovation Center, Water Town Living Room, Xiangfudang Innovation Green Valley, Wujiang High-speed Rail Science and Technology Innovation New City and other core functional areas of the key transportation links, Achieve 30 minutes between nodes of important functions. The whole line has been included in the "Multi-level Rail Transit Planning in the Yangtze River Delta Region".
According to Li Junhao, chief engineer of the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission, Shanghai has always taken the joint construction of the "Yangtze River Delta on the track" as the top priority and actively promoted. He revealed that in addition to the Shanghai-Sujia Line, the Jinshan-Pinghu Railway will serve as an extension of the Jinshan Railway, serving the connection between Shanghai and the surrounding areas along the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, and the northern extension of the Jiamin Line, as the first cross-provincial railway between Shanghai and Suzhou, will reshape the time and space distance between Shanghai and Suzhou. All three intercity (urban) rail projects are accelerating their upfront programme studies.
Hua Yuan, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai Municipal Government, director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, and director of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Cooperation Office, introduced the "report card" of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in the past three years. He mentioned that in the past three years, the "Yangtze River Delta" has been changing with each passing day, in the field of transportation, railway projects such as the first phase of the Shanghai-Suzhou Railway have been completed and opened, railway projects such as the Shanghai-Suzhou Lake Railway have been accelerated, and the total mileage of the Yangtze River Delta high-speed railway has exceeded 6,000 kilometers. The first batch of 9 interprovincial broken roads involving Shanghai have been completed and opened to traffic, 2 are accelerating construction, and Shanghai has opened 29 bus passenger transport links in adjacent areas of Shanghai and Suzhou and Shanghai and Zhejiang. Wuhu, Nanjing, Jiangyin, Suzhou and other major ports to achieve container river-sea direct transportation to Yangshan deep-water port, the construction of a world-class port cluster integrated governance system and other key work in an orderly manner.
In addition, the reporter also learned that at the beginning of 2018, the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta jointly prepared and implemented the "Three-year Action Plan for the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta Region (2018-2020)". After assessment, of the 320 tasks identified in the Three-Year Action Plan, 263 have been completed, 55 continued to advance, and 2 have been transferred due to changes in construction conditions. Overall, the goals and tasks set forth in the first round of the Three-Year Action Plan have been successfully completed, and remarkable progress has been made in cooperation in various fields. In May this year, a new round of the Three-Year Action Plan was implemented. The text framework of the new three-year action plan is divided into two parts: the main text and the annex, and the work task list of the annex sorts out 217 specific tasks according to the three categories of major projects, major policies and major matters, including 21 key cooperation matters such as building the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center and promoting the linkage development of the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Kong Lingjun Text Editor: Kong Lingjun Caption Source: Xinhua News Agency Infographic Photo Editor: Xiang Jianying
Source: Author: Chen Shuyi
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