Source: People's Daily - Jilin Channel Original draft
"The new expectations of the broad masses of the people for a better trip are our goals." As a modern road transport channel, expressways play an increasingly important role in promoting economic and social development. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", with the full implementation of the national reform and opening up strategy and the vigorous development of expressways, Jigao Group has vigorously promoted the project management and construction of expressways, paving a modern highway transportation network that runs through the east and west, runs through the north and south, and intersects in three dimensions. The intelligent and smooth traffic arteries have greatly improved the quality and rhythm of life of the people in Jilin in the new era, promoted the logistics and distribution, resource development, investment attraction, industrial structure adjustment and horizontal economic integration between interprovincial regions, and strongly promoted the comprehensive revitalization of the old industrial base in Jilin Province.
Construction improves quality and development accelerates. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Geegao Group gave full play to the key role of major projects in stabilizing investment and benefiting the long term, and the construction of expressway projects achieved a major leap forward. In the past five years, Geegao Group has completed a total investment task of 73 billion yuan, coordinated the completion of 8 new highway projects and 2 reconstruction and expansion projects of 1304 kilometers, and added 1089 kilometers of new traffic mileage. Especially in 2020, in the face of the severe challenge of the sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic, the group worked together to overcome the difficulties, tried every means to seize the time and grasp the progress, and completed a total investment of 9.37 billion yuan, providing strong financial support for promoting the construction of the expressway project, ensuring that the 869 kilometers of the 5 projects of Shuangtao, Songtong, Changyu (reconstruction and expansion), Dongshuang (Jilin section) and Longpu were all completed and opened to traffic ahead of schedule, creating the "two bests" in the construction scale and traffic mileage in the history of transportation in Jilin Province. By the end of 2020, the total mileage of traffic in the province will reach 4306 kilometers, which is basically the same as that of Liaoning Province and Heilongjiang Province. Innovate investment and financing models, and actively carry out investment and financing practices such as PPP bundling, special bonds, and debt-loan combination. Since 2021, as a representative of the provincial government investors, on the basis of accelerating the parallel promotion of the completion of all the processes in the preliminary work of the three PPP projects of Jihuan, Puyan and Yanchang with an investment of 30.341 kilometers last year, this year, the construction of the three National High Network projects has been planned from a high starting point, started construction with high standards and promoted with high quality. According to relevant experts, the completion and opening of these three expressways in the future will basically make up for the "short board" of the province's expressway construction, and play a more solid role as a "stabilizer" and "ballast stone" to promote the high-quality sustainable development of Jigao Group.
Light up the station and dress up the journey. The highway service area, as the "spiritual station" of drivers and passengers, plays an irreplaceable role in ensuring the safety and comfort of driving and alleviating travel fatigue. In 2020, Geegao Group took the newly put into operation siping service area as the standard, and decorated all 79 pairs of service areas in the province with "white fences", "big red lanterns" and "Chinese knots". Accelerated the construction of brand columns in the service area, implemented lighting projects for 55 pairs of service areas, and decorated 23 pairs of service areas such as Songyuan and Changbai Mountain with cornices and light boxes. Vigorously implemented the greening improvement project, in accordance with the principle of "one district, one scenery and one characteristic", the construction of garden-style service areas was promoted. The sewage treatment renovation project was implemented, and the sewage treatment facilities were comprehensively transformed for 48 service areas that did not meet the environmental protection requirements to ensure that all pollutant discharges met the standards. Vigorously carry out the construction of the theme of "service area", with the service brand of "Jigao Station" as the carrier, and build the service area into a comprehensive service area integrating shopping, leisure, food and tourism, which greatly facilitates the traveling masses. Especially in the past two years, the group company has focused on improving and upgrading the software and hardware facilities standards in the service area, and completed a number of projects such as house repair and update, interior decoration, and installation of video surveillance systems. At present, the province's highway service area has truly achieved the goal of "warming up, lighting up, greening up, and being beautiful".
Precise maintenance, service efficiency. In order to make the vehicle unimpeded, it is necessary to do a good job of road maintenance. In the past two years, Jigao Group has increased its investment in the province's highway maintenance historical arrears, especially in 2020, the Group took the opportunity of welcoming the "national assessment" to concentrate manpower and material resources to accurately exert efforts, and comprehensively carried out the special action of highway and bridge safety protection inspection and rectification and tunnel quality improvement and upgrading. It has successively implemented mechanical, electrical, civil and safety facility maintenance projects for 52 tunnels, and carried out special rectification and maintenance of 31 bridge guardrails, accumulatively completing road surface maintenance of 7.88 million square meters, marking 1.15 million square meters, and adding more than 10,000 linear meters of guardrails, fundamentally eliminating the safety hazards formed over the years. Vigorously implement the green beautification project, and replant 104,000 trees on both sides of the 1,332-kilometer highway. By the end of 2020, the excellent road rate of expressways reached 94.72%, and the three indicators of highway flatness, damage rate and ruts in the province were greatly improved compared with the national inspection in 2015.
Damei Expressway, auspicious and auspicious. In the past two years, while continuously improving the road appearance, GECO Group has continuously improved the level of travel information services, and has installed 721 LED display panels in prominent locations such as service areas, toll stations and toll gantries. Now, as long as the drivers and passengers are driving on the Jilin Expressway, these LED display panels can provide relevant road information and safety tips in real time, bringing a good travel experience and a pleasant psychological feeling. At the same time, since August last year, the Group has successively opened the 96122 customer service hotline, the 96122 live broadcast room, the Weibo and WeChat public accounts of the Jigao Group, the Jixing high-speed mini program, the client, etc., and initially established an all-round and three-dimensional information release mechanism with the Group customer service center as the center. In 2020, in the face of the raids of 3 strong typhoons such as "Bawei", "Meisak" and "Poseidon" and the historical rare rain, snow and ice disasters, the group company launched the information release mechanism for the first time, and all cadres and employees acted quickly and decisively to respond to the battle, timely and accurately guided vehicle travel, and successfully completed the task of ensuring the smoothness of the highway.
Nowadays, Jigao people, who have the courage to take responsibility and dare to be the first, are bathed in the strong spring breeze of the comprehensive revitalization and all-round revitalization of Jilin in the new era, and are fully promoting the implementation of the group's "1 N" diversified development strategy in accordance with the "three five" development strategy of the provincial party committee and the provincial government and the major decision-making and deployment of the "one main and six double" industrial space layout. The transportation materials industrial park located in the China-Korea International Cooperation Demonstration Zone is under intensive construction; the three expressways built in the PPP mode as a government investor have entered the construction stage in an all-round way; and the work of the three major companies of the group' roads and bridges, supervision and testing is steadily advancing. Standing at the historical node of the intersection of the two hundred years in the new era, coinciding with the great changes that have not occurred in a hundred years, a carefully drawn new blueprint for highway construction has been presented in front of the Jilin people, and the Jigao people will keep an eye on the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan", strive to forge ahead, race against the waves, and greet the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China with excellent results!