Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 13 Title: "Driving" to a New Era of High-quality Development - Written on the opening occasion of the Second United Nations Global Conference on Sustainable Transport
Xinhua News Agency reporters Fan Xi, Ye Haoming and Zhou Yuan
Golden autumn in October, the fragrance of dangui wafting. Beijing National Convention Center, with the theme of "Sustainable Transport, Sustainable Development", the second United Nations Global Conference on Sustainable Transport will be held here.
This year is the beginning of China's "14th Five-Year Plan" and the beginning of accelerating the construction of a transportation power. Adhering to the concept of coordinated development with the economy and society and harmonious coexistence with the natural ecology, with the goal of building people's satisfactory transportation, we will promote innovative development, promote green transformation, and strengthen open cooperation... As a pioneer of economic and social society, "sustainable" is increasingly becoming a development label in China's transportation sector.
Green first, make every effort to create a "low-carbon road"
On October 2, Tianjin Port, a "public transfer iron" and "scattered reform collection" open-top box special train full of 3200 tons of iron ore slowly drove out and accelerated to Ningxia Huinong, which marked the official opening of the "Northwest Ore Corridor" railway channel of Tianjin Port.
"The 'transit rail' not only saves the comprehensive transportation costs for the enterprise, but also injects 'green' vitality into sustainable transportation, which can not only improve transportation efficiency, but also reduce carbon emissions." Yuan Man, manager of the marketing department of Tianjin Port Yuanhang Ore Terminal Company, said that under normal circumstances, the energy consumption and pollution emissions of railway unit cargo turnover are about 1/7 and 1/13 of road transport.
Optimizing the transportation structure is the "key play" of energy conservation and emission reduction in China's transportation.
Data show that transportation emissions account for about 10% of China's total carbon emissions, and road transportation accounts for nearly 90% of them. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China comprehensively carried out a three-year action of transport restructuring. Compared with 2017, in 2020, the increase in railway freight was 863 million tons, the increase in waterway freight was 938 million tons, and the road traffic of bulk cargo in coastal ports decreased by 370 million tons.
This is a microcosm of China's green transformation of transportation into the "fast lane".
"Carbon dioxide emissions are striving to peak by 2030 and striving to be carbon neutral by 2060." As the world's largest developing country, it is an uphill battle to achieve carbon peaking to carbon neutrality in the shortest time in global history.
At present, China's transportation industry is a participant, contributor and leader in the green development of global transportation.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport said that China regards the promotion of green and low-carbon transformation as a strategic task of sustainable transportation development, and pursues to meet the needs of social and economic development and people's travel to the greatest extent with the minimum resource investment and the minimum environmental cost.
Energy consumption and carbon emission intensity continue to decline, and the carbon dioxide emission intensity of transportation will decrease by 7.5% in 2020 compared with 2015.
-- Accelerate the promotion and application of new energy equipment and facilities, and by the end of 2020, the number of new energy vehicles for urban buses and cruise taxis in China will reach 466,000 and 132,000 respectively.
——The intensive level of transportation resource conservation has reached a new level, and the recycling of waste pavement, asphalt, steel, cement and other materials has been actively carried out, and the recycling rate of waste materials on highway pavements has reached 95%......
Connecting urban and rural areas and unimpeded the "main artery" of economic and social development
A bridge spans the west and east, fulfilling the dream of the people along the coast for many years to "cross the bridge". After more than three years of construction, the Xin'anjiang Jiekou Bridge in Shexian County, Anhui Province, located at the junction of Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, has recently opened to traffic.
"From Xinmen Village on the west bank of the Xin'an River to the east bank, the winding road that used to take a 4-hour drive now takes less than 2 minutes." Daniel Zhang En, project leader of the construction unit China Railway 15th Bureau No. 3 Company, said.
For the villagers, with the bridge, the "three citrus" produced in the unique microclimate of Xin'anJiang can be sold at a better price. The beautiful and rich villages will also welcome more tourists.
Economic and social development, transportation first. Resource roads, tourism roads, industrial roads, one road after another, just like a "golden key" to open the mountain gate, open up the "microcirculation" of rural revitalization, drive an industry, and bring the rich side of the people.
-- The railway road network is extended vertically and horizontally. By the end of 2020, the total mileage of China's railway operation will reach 146,000 kilometers, covering 99% of cities with a population of more than 200,000, of which the high-speed rail operating mileage is about 38,000 kilometers, covering nearly 95% of cities with a population of more than one million.
-- The road network is accessible in all directions. The total length of highways opened to traffic reached 5.198 million kilometers, of which the highway mileage reached 160,000 kilometers, and cities with a population of more than 200,000 people achieved full coverage; all qualified townships and towns and established villages in the country were connected to hardened roads and buses.
-- Improving the quality and efficiency of civil aviation transportation. The total length of the country's routes has reached 237,000 kilometers, and the number of licensed transport airports has reached 241; civil transport airports cover more than 92% of prefecture-level administrative regions.
During the National Day holiday, the project builders of Gansu S36 Linkangguang Expressway still stuck to the construction line. The Linkang-Guangzhou Expressway is about 36 kilometers long, and after it is completed and opened to traffic, it will end the history of Kangle County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, without a highway.
"For ethnic minority areas, this highway is a bridging project between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, which is of great significance." Yang Wanlie, head of the Linkangguang Expressway project of China Railway 16th Bureau Group, said.
"We want to focus on sustainable transportation and poverty alleviation, sustainable transportation and people's livelihood, sustainable transportation and green development, sustainable transportation and connectivity, sustainable transportation and regional development, innovative development, safe development, etc., and make new and greater contributions to promoting global sustainable development." Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng said.
Open up and interconnect, and jointly build a "fast lane" to the future
At about 10 o'clock on September 28, accompanied by a loud whistle, the "Shanghai" China-Europe express train hung the slogan of "new era, sharing the future" and "serving the construction of the 'Belt and Road'", and left the Minhang Freight Station of shanghai railway and ran to Hamburg, Germany.
This is the first time that a China-Europe express train has been opened in Shanghai. The person in charge of China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Company said that the "Shanghai" train runs regularly every week, and will gradually increase the frequency and routes, provide new logistics options for Chinese and foreign enterprises, and become a new land transport channel for China-Europe trade.
Guided by openness, driven by cooperation and aimed at sharing, in recent years, China has continuously built a "fast lane" for the integration of transportation integration that is interconnected and mutually beneficial and win-win.
On October 10, the Vientiane Dispatching Command Center of China-Laos Railway, which was built by China Railway Construction and Electrification Bureau, was officially opened, marking that the Mowan section of China-Laos Railway officially entered the dynamic detection stage. The train is about to speed on this "friendship road" connecting China and Laos, facilitating people-to-people exchanges and trade exchanges between the two countries.
Actively promote and jointly build the transportation interconnection of the "Belt and Road" countries, and strengthen the "soft connectivity" of policies, rules and standards. Most of the more than 200 belt and road cooperation documents signed by China with 140 countries and 32 international organizations involve transport connectivity cooperation.
The Yaji Railway, the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, and the China-Russia Tongjiang Railway Bridge were completed and opened to traffic, and the China-Laos Railway, the China-Thailand Railway, the Hungarian-Cypriot Railway, and the Yawan High-Speed Railway were solidly promoted. The China-Europe Express has run more than 40,000 trains and reached more than 170 cities in 23 European countries.
Accelerate the promotion of highway connectivity with neighboring countries, and the "two major" highways of Kunman Highway, Kunming-Hanoi-Haiphong Expressway and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor are all opened to traffic. With the Belt and Road Initiative as a cooperation platform, 22 bilateral and multilateral intergovernmental international road transport facilitation agreements, including the Intergovernmental Agreement on International Road Transport Facilitation of SCO Member States, have been signed with 19 countries.
Behind the continuous improvement of the level of connectivity is China's determination and confidence to unswervingly expand high-level opening up and share development opportunities with the world. Although there are still many uncertainties in the global economic recovery and the development of the epidemic, the general trend of China's integration with the world is unstoppable.