Water, land and air reach the world, and Changsha has built a new highland of openness

Changsha Evening News, August 22 (All-media reporter Wu Xinlu) Recently, Skytrax, an international airport quality standard evaluation agency, released the "2021 Top 100 Best Airports in the World", and Changsha Airport ranked 81st. The airport is the gateway to the outside world, and Skytrax's list of the world's top 100 best airports is known as the "Oscar" of the civil aviation industry, since entering the top 100 list for the first time in 2019, Changsha Airport has risen from 99th to 86th to 81st, rising year by year. The change in the ranking of Changsha Airport is the epitome of Changsha's increased pace of opening up to the outside world and the construction of a new highland for opening up.

By double to triple

Portal upgrades provide open support

On June 28 this year, the main project of Changsha Airport Reconstruction and Expansion Project Integrated Transportation Hub (GTC) began, which will integrate 4 kinds of ground transportation and 4 kinds of rail transit after completion, becoming one of the airports with the largest number of transportation modes in China.

Since the project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in April last year, the reconstruction and expansion project of Changsha Airport has been advancing at the fastest speed.

From the perspective of economic development, limited by the fact that it is not near the border and not the sea, the central cities attach great importance to the airport economy, and to a certain extent, the dispute over the central airport is essentially a contest of urban economic strength.

From single runway, single terminal to double runway, double terminal, and the rapid development of airport cargo from scratch, in recent years, Changsha Airport's disadvantage in competition has gradually narrowed, and the advantages have gradually become obvious.

The Changsha Airport Reconstruction and Expansion Project is a key project for Hunan to implement the "three highs and four new" strategy, which is of great significance to accelerating the construction of the "Changsha Four-hour Aviation Economic Circle", creating a new situation in the rise of the central region, and enhancing Changsha's primacy. In the future, with the completion and operation of the Changsha Airport Reconstruction and Expansion Project, Changsha Airport will form a regional comprehensive transportation hub with 3 runways, 3 terminals, and the overall linkage operation of the East-West Terminal Area, further accelerating the pace of Changsha and Hunan opening up to the outside world.

In terms of services, Changsha Airport has been constantly innovating in recent years. A number of intelligent personalized services such as paperless boarding, priority boarding in separate cabins, live baggage broadcasting, and visual pick-up have improved the taste and quality of passenger travel experience.

According to the data, in the comprehensive ranking of passenger satisfaction of tens of millions of airports in the second quarter of this year released by the domestic CPASE evaluation agency, Changsha Airport ranked 11th, which is the best result in the calendar year.

Logistics worldwide

Opening up Changsha accelerates the embrace of the world

As a "barometer" of regional economic development, it took 20 years for Changsha Airport to reach 10 million passengers per year, while it took less than 7 years to jump from 10 million passengers to 20 million passengers.

The rapid development of Changsha Airport is inseparable from the development of the export-oriented economy of Hunan and Changsha. In the first half of this year, the total value of Changsha's foreign trade imports and exports reached 130.34 billion yuan, accounting for 50.1% of the province, an increase of 25.3% year-on-year.

In particular, since the approval of the China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone last year, the construction of the Changsha area has been in full swing, the first to try, and a new way of opening up has been broken.

Since its listing in September last year, Changsha has set up a total of 3295 new enterprises, completed import and export volume of about 44.05 billion yuan from January to June this year, an increase of about 42.7% year-on-year, signed 35 new major projects, with a total investment of 41.6 billion yuan, undertaken 113 reform tasks, the implementation rate reached 67.2%, and has initially refined and formed more than 60 institutional innovation achievements.

Opening up to the outside world, Changsha strives to build a three-dimensional channel for logistics worldwide.

In the railway yard of Changsha North Railway Station, the container trucks lined up in a long line entered the gate in an orderly manner, and the gantry crane operator loaded the trains for china and Europe. In 2020, the China-Europe Express (Changsha) took the lead in maintaining the "day shift" in the country, running 530 trains throughout the year, an increase of 28.95% year-on-year. In the first half of this year, the China-Europe Express (Changsha) continued its growth momentum, and the cumulative number of shipments increased by 66.7% year-on-year, providing a strong impetus for helping foreign trade and smoothing the double cycle.

In Changsha NewPort, loading trucks shuttle back and forth to transport containers, and large ships are loading and unloading goods by lifting machinery and are about to sail away. With the strong development momentum of Changsha, the freight volume of Changsha New Port has reached a new high in recent years, and it has successfully entered the ranks of "10 million tons" ports.

With the improvement of three-dimensional transportation opened to the outside world, Changsha's logistics industry has accelerated its development. Following the award of "China Express Delivery Demonstration City" last year, Changsha has recently been awarded the "Green Freight Distribution Demonstration City". In 2020, Changsha's postal express business reached 21.2 billion yuan, ranking the forefront of the central region.

Covering the water, land and air, connecting the world, changsha in the future will further accelerate the embrace of the world.

Source: Changsha Evening News