Text/Chen Zhuodong Peng Jining Jiang Xuan Tan Yaoguang
On November 15, 2020, Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, was officially put into operation.
At this moment, it is like another moment. 100 years ago, in 1920, the Xinning Railway was completed and opened to traffic. Xinning Railway is the pride of Jiangmen, scattered around the world Wuyi overseas Chinese compatriots with accumulated wealth, new technologies, new ideas, along the Xinning Railway back to their hometown, opened the curtain of the construction of Jiangmen Wuyi, Wuyi century-old railway dream was also born.
Today, 100 years later, Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, makes the dream a more perfect reality. It is the hub of Jiangmen connecting the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong Province, the whole country and even the world, the transportation core of Jiangmen connecting the four directions, a landmark that condenses the culture of overseas Chinese and modern design concepts, advanced engineering technology and cutting-edge management thinking, and is also the "engine" that drives Jiangmen to take off.
Zhuxi hub Jiangmen Station majestic Xingle photo
Lin Yingwu, secretary of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee, pointed out that the construction of Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, is a great "milestone" in the history of Jiangmen's transportation industry, opening a new chapter in Jiangmen's transportation industry. This is a strong "new engine" for Jiangmen's high-quality development, strengthening industrial synergy between Jiangmen City and the core cities in the Greater Bay Area, and promoting the accelerated integration of production factors in Jiangmen. This is a high-speed "accelerator" for Jiangmen's full integration into the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, further improving the level of interconnection between Jiangmen City and the core cities of the Greater Bay Area, and joining the regional development pattern of "one nuclear, one belt and one region" in the province.
According to the population development plan of Jiangmen City, Jiangmen City will build a large coastal city along the river with an urban population of 3 million and a total population of 6-7 million, and deeply participate in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the West Bank Metropolitan Area of the Pearl River Estuary. After realizing the century-old railway dream, Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, has opened a chapter in Jiangmen's big city, setting a goal for a new generation of Jiangmen people to forge ahead in the new era.
Zhuxi hub Jiangmen Station relies on the Jiangzhan Railway and other lines to the western Guangdong region Guangzhou Railway Group for the map
A century-old railway dream the road to fulfill the dream
At the beginning of the 20th century, Chen Yixi, a retired overseas Chinese leader whose ancestral home was Taishan, who had participated in the construction of american railways and became a railway engineer, returned to Wuyi, Jiangmen with the dream of building a railway to prosper the economy of his hometown, and built the Xinning Railway, which extended from Jiangmen North Street to Taishan Doushan. With his efforts and the support of many Wuyi overseas Chinese, the first private commercial railway in the history of China's railways funded by Chinese, designed Chinese, Chinese built, Chinese and managed was born. Professor Zhang Guoxiong of Wuyi University commented that the Xinning Railway embodies the sincere feelings of the Wuyi overseas Chinese compatriots to love the country and the hometown and benefit Sangzi, and the self-confidence in national rejuvenation and national prosperity has increased the ambition of Chinese. "This railway undertakes the heavy responsibility of the transportation corridor from Guangzhou to Guangzhou Bay, and expresses the strong desire of overseas Chinese to drive the industrial development, commercial development and social development of their hometown through modern industrial civilization and steam civilization." Zhang Guoxiong said that since the completion of this railway, Wuyi overseas villagers can directly take a boat from Hong Kong to Jiangmen Changdi, and then take a train back to their hometown, and a large number of overseas materials have returned, promoting the construction of overseas Chinese families, overseas Chinese new villages, and overseas Chinese shops.
Unfortunately, this precious railway was affected by the War of Resistance Against Japan and was demolished after only 19 years of operation. Since then, compatriots at home and abroad have repeatedly called for the reconstruction of the Xinning Railway, but they have not been able to do so. The railway dream of Jiangmen Wuyi has moved from a short period of happiness to a long silence.
From 1920 to 2020, the perfect realization of the century-old railway dream has gone through twists and turns. With a history of 72 years in between, there has never been a roar of rails or the roar of trains on the land of Wuyi in Jiangmen. It wasn't until 2011 that dreams rekindled the light of hope. In 2011, the Jiangmen branch line of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai City Railway was opened to traffic; in 2012, the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Railway was completed and opened to traffic; in 2018, the Jiangzhan-Zhanjiang Railway was opened to traffic... Rail transit shuttles through Jiangmen Wuyi, making it more convenient for Jiangmen people to travel.
Members of the four leading groups of Jiangmen City "praised" Chen Zhuodong for the Jiangmen Station in the Zhuxi hub
However, the fly in the ointment is that compared with the North Street Station of the Xinning Railway, which was called the hub of Jianghai, Jiangmen still lacks a hub station in all directions, and it is still one step away from the perfect realization of the century-old railway dream.
Hu Qibo, director of the Jiangmen Municipal Development and Reform Bureau, introduced that Jiangmen is located at the key node of the west bank of the Pearl River, which carries the east and the west, and with the completion and opening of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Jiangmen Branch Line, the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Railway, and the Jiangzhan-Zhanjiang Railway, Jiangmen is increasingly equipped to build a hub. In recent years, the provincial party committee and the provincial government have attached great importance to the development of the west bank of the Pearl River, and the provincial "13th Five-Year Plan" has positioned Jiangmen City as "a transportation gateway connecting the western wing of the Pearl River Delta and the western Region of Guangdong, and a comprehensive transportation hub on the west bank of the Pearl River". Building a transportation hub in Jiangmen has been put on the high agenda of the province.
At this moment, the eyes of the provincial party committee, the provincial government, and the Jiangmen municipal party committee and municipal government aimed at a station on the Maoming-Shenzhen railway line located in the Xinhui District of Jiangmen City. In the original design, the site was just an intermediate station with an area of 6,000 square meters. The location of the station is precisely the center of the geographical location of the west bank of the Pearl River, and the superior geographical location makes the route planning of the west bank of the Pearl River, the Greater Bay Area and even important national rail transit projects gradually converge here. Due to the favorable situation, under the key decisions of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, and the active efforts of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee and the Jiangmen Municipal Government, the railway side finally supported the development of Jiangmen Station from an intermediate station of 6,000 square meters to a hub station of 40,000 square meters, and the century-old railway dream of Wuyi in Jiangmen was fully realized.
Hub core station Tenglong leaps in all directions
The reason why Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, is called a hub is due to its strong transportation integration, operation and accessibility capabilities.
According to Hu Qibo, the railway passenger stations currently put into operation in Jiangmen include Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Jiangmen East Station and Xinhui Station, Jiangzhan Railway Shuangshui Town Station, Taishan Station, Kaiping South Station, Enping Station, plus Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, with a total of 7 stations. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Jiangmen City will also add 6 stations, including Jiangmen North Station and Binjiang New District Station of Nanshagang Railway, Heshan West Station of Zhuzhao High-speed Railway, Guangzhou-Fojiang Intercity Heshan East Station, Binjiang Station and Sanjiang Station, bringing the total number of railway passenger stations to 13. However, no matter how the number of stations increases, Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, always stands in the "C position". According to the "Jiangmen Rail Transit Integration Plan", Jiangmen Railway Passenger Station is a development pattern of "1 main, 5 auxiliary and multiple nodes", of which Jiangmen Station is the only main hub, which undertakes the heavy responsibility of interconnection with the national high-speed rail network and the intercity network of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The greater the responsibility, the corresponding increase in capacity. Xu Xiaoxiong, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, introduced that the total investment of Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, is about 4 billion yuan, with a total construction area of 254,500 square meters, of which 54,500 square meters are station buildings, 200,000 square meters are supporting projects, and the maximum daily passenger dispatch volume is 71,500. The lines bring together the existing Jiangzhan Railway, Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity railway, Guangzhou-Zhuhai Railway, as well as the Shenzhen-Jiangjiang Railway under construction, the Zhuhai-Zhaozhou High-Speed Railway to be started, the planned Shennan High-Speed Railway, and the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhuhai Intercity Railway. The design yard scale is 8 sets of 20 lines, after the introduction of the Guangzhou-Foshan River Pearl Intercity, two new sets of 6 lines will be built, and the total size of the depot will be increased to 10 sets of 26 lines. This is by far the fourth largest railway hub in the province.
The "Little Bird Paradise" at Jiangmen Station in Zhuxi Hub is decorated with a very overseas Chinese cultural atmosphere Zhou Huadong Wang Tianshui photo
The rail lines are intertwined, bringing strong access capabilities to Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi. The Jiangzhan Railway opens convenient rail transit lines to Yangjiang, Maoming, Zhanjiang and other western Guangdong regions for Jiangmen and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the commuting time from Jiangmen to Zhanjiang is shortened to about 2 hours and 30 minutes. In addition, relying on the Jiangzhan Railway to connect other lines, Jiangmen can reach Shantou to the east and Beijing West Railway Station as far north as the north.
The Shenzhen River Railway is designed to have a speed of 250 kilometers per hour, of which the Xili-Nansha section is 200 kilometers per hour. There are 7 stations on the whole line, including Xili, Shenzhen Airport, Dongguan Marina Bay, Nansha, Zhongshan North, Henglan and Jiangmen. The railway will open up the "meridian" of China's eastern coastal rail transit for Jiangmen, starting from Jiangmen Station and directly connecting to Shenzhen, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Jinan, Tianjin and other important cities on the eastern coast.
The project line of the Jiangmen to Pearl River Delta Hub Airport section of the Zhuhai-Zhaozhou high-speed railway will lead out from Jiangmen Station, and in the future it will pass through Jiangmen Heshan and Foshan Gaoming to the Pearl River Delta Airport Station. The first high-speed railway with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour on the west bank of the Pearl River will open up a north-south rail line for Jiangmen, starting from Jiangmen Station, south to Zhuhai and Macao, and north to Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaozhou area, and the high-speed rail is helpless.
It is worth mentioning that the above two lines connect the important Shenzhen Airport and the Pearl River Delta Hub Airport and other terminals in the Greater Bay Area, which also makes up for the regret that there is no passenger airport in Jiangmen area, so that the railway hub of Jiangmen and the aviation hub of the Greater Bay Area are seamlessly connected, and it will be more convenient for Jiangmen citizens to take the plane in the future.
More importantly, the Shennan high-speed rail project, which borrows the Shenjiang Railway Line, Jingjiangmen Station and Heshan West Station of the Zhuzhao High-Speed Railway, is also underway, which will eventually lead to Nanning in Guangxi and Kunming in Yunnan, opening up a passage to the hinterland of Southwest China for Jiangmen and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Unimpeded aortic sites form the core
As an integrated transport hub, it is necessary to achieve internal and external connectivity. It is reported that in order to optimize the transportation system and adapt to the needs of modern comprehensive transportation, Jiangmen City actively opens up the "main artery" of transportation, smooths the "microcirculation" of the city, and shapes a three-dimensional transportation hub with Jiangmen Station as the core of The Zhuxi Comprehensive Transportation Hub to meet the service needs of passengers for fast, convenient, comfortable and safe.
Xu Chunmian, director of the Jiangmen Municipal Transportation Bureau, introduced that in terms of external road access, Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, is quickly connected to the road network of three districts and one city in the east through the north-south aortic Jiangmen Avenue to achieve comprehensive coverage of passenger flow distribution. At present, the north of Jiangmen Avenue and Jiangmen Avenue have been completed and opened to traffic, the left side of the South East Line has been put into trial operation, and the South and West Lines are also speeding up construction. At the same time, some major transportation projects under construction around the station, such as the Yinzhou Lake Expressway, are being accelerated, and the Zhongkai Expressway connecting the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor and the Guangzhongjiang Expressway connecting the Shiziyang Passage will be completed and opened to traffic in recent years. Through the series of Jiangmen Avenue, Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, will efficiently dock 8 expressways in the region, and its traffic radiation capacity in all directions will become more and more obvious.
In the future, Jiangmen will actively plan and lay out the "six horizontal, six vertical and two links" expressway network and the "seven vertical and eight horizontal" urban expressway system, build a rapid trunk line in the core area of the ring city, accelerate the expansion of Wuyi Road, Huigang Avenue, and the reconstruction and expansion of the G240 xinhui section of national highways, create a 20-minute commuting circle in the main urban area, further optimize the connection plan between the station and the surrounding road network, and actively integrate into the 1-hour life circle of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
On November 13, before the official ticketing of the station, the long-distance passenger terminal and bus station that were supporting facilities of the station were officially put into use. Xu Chunmian said that the long-distance passenger station on the north side of the station, fully put into operation after the station as many as 56 lines, covering Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and other cities and provinces where Jiangmen citizens travel and exchange more. On the south side of the station, 26 bus lines will be opened in two stages, covering the main urban areas of Pengjiang, Jianghai and Xinhui Districts, the towns of Xinhui District, and some townships of Taishan City and Heshan City.
Overseas Chinese cultural landmarks rise to the main urban area
Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi Province, is one of the few comprehensive transportation hubs in Guangdong Province located in the main urban area. Located in the main urban area of China's first overseas Chinese township, the design of the station is fully integrated into the concept of overseas Chinese culture. Mo Zengmin, the station manager, introduced that the station was designed to fully excavate the historical and cultural elements of Wuyi Overseas Chinese Township, and adopted the design of "Tree of Life and Bird Paradise" to highlight the regional cultural characteristics of Wuyi Overseas Chinese Township.
The station building adopts the line - line side type T-type comprehensive station type, the core area of the station building in the middle of the design draws on the "bird paradise" shape of Jiangmen Xinhui District, and has built a century-old banyan tree shape with a single tree and thousands of birds living together in Ba Jin's pen, from the front façade of the station to look inward, a smooth and exquisite structure breaks out of the soil from the bottom, in a cross-weave upward, forming a canopy of branches and leaves at the top, depicting the majestic scene of the banyan tree rising from the ground and flourishing. Entering the waiting room, you will be greeted by a series of slender leaf-shaped ceilings, each about 6 meters long, which complements the "Tree of Life" and reflects the touching feelings of overseas villagers looking forward to the return of fallen leaves. The floor position corresponding to the "Tree of Life" lighting film is posted with a phoenix pattern full of screens, which echoes with each other, not only "nesting", but also "attracting phoenixes"; the glass erosion treatment of the curtain wall is based on the local bird paradise attractions, and the ground mosaic pattern is also closely related to the design concept of "Tree of Life". Liu Yang, secretary of the party branch of the Jiangmen station project of the construction party china railway construction group, said that as a landmark building for long-distance travel and homecoming, the design of the station reflects the spirit of overseas Chinese and the homesickness of the wanderer, "The station house is not only reinforced concrete, we are committed to integrating the urban characteristics into the design of the station building, forming a unique Cultural Charm of Overseas Chinese with Jiangmen characteristics." ”
Kwong Jikang of the Jiangmen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports revealed that the bureau was responsible for the decoration of cultural elements on the 6 light boxes in the outbound passage, 4 pillars at the exit passage, and 8 walls on the west side of the sunken square passage connected to the outbound passage. Considering the characteristics of most of the people using the outbound passage as visitors and returning home, the Jiangmen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports strives to build it into a city charm image window that shows Wuyi's unique overseas Chinese culture, rich cultural landscape, simple natural customs and beautiful ecological environment; at the same time, through the use of Jiangmen's unique cultural element symbols, Jiangmen villagers have a feeling of "going home".
Kwong Jikang said that 6 light boxes and 8 walls are all in the form of photographic pictures to display urban landmarks, historical culture, folk customs and characteristic scenery in various parts of Jiangmen, 8 walls are assigned to 7 cities (districts) in Jiangmen to show the local style, and the other 1 is dedicated to displaying the symbol of Jiangmen Cultural Tourism; 4 pillars are considered from the perspective of shape, artistic expression and construction technology, using aluminum plate printing and then bending into an arc, and selecting Xinhui Bird Paradise, Heshan Gulao Water Town, Kaiping Diaolou from the unique cultural elements of Jiangmen City. Symbols such as Taishan Meijia Compound, Enping Xichun Pagoda and Feng Ru Aircraft are represented, which are organically combined into 4 picture scrolls for long-term display.
After the opening of the station, in order to widely publicize the pivotal role and unique advantages of Jiangmen Station, attract the attention of all sectors of society, and stimulate the enthusiasm of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese at home and abroad to love the country and hometown, the Jiangmen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports plans to combine the tourism publicity and promotion work arrangements, strengthen cooperation with the management agency of Jiangmen Station, and regularly launch the call for papers at home and abroad for lightbox pictures.
The "Tree of Life" in the departure hall of Jiangmen Station in Zhuxi Hub is extremely beautiful Photo by Chen Zhuodong
Seize the big opportunity The "engine" helps take off
For Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee and the Jiangmen Municipal Government have high hopes. Xu Xiaoxiong believes that under the background of the study and implementation of the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the spirit of the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping attending the celebration meeting of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and inspecting guangdong, the ticket sales operation of the station is a concrete embodiment of the implementation of the spirit of Jiangmen City, and it is also an important measure to seize the major opportunities of the "double district" construction and the "twin cities" linkage. The station will inject surging impetus into the high-quality development of Jiangmen City and even the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Hu Qibo said that at the level of economic and social development, the station will promote the city's full integration into the "Greater Bay Area on the track" and become a booster for Jiangmen to seize the construction of "double districts" and the "twin cities" to link major historical opportunities. At the same time, it will improve the level of interconnection between the city and the core cities of the Greater Bay Area, strengthen the industrial interaction between Jiangmen and the cities in the Greater Bay Area, and become a new engine for high-quality development; promote the coordinated development of the whole city and become an accelerator for building a regional development pattern of "three districts advancing together" in Jiangmen.
Zhang Guoxiong believes that as a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, after the opening of Jiangmen Station, it will fill the gap of no large railway hub on the west bank of the Pearl River and strengthen the transportation connection between the two banks of the Pearl River and even the east and west of Guangdong through the national railway network. "More importantly, Jiangmen Station will also play an important role in connecting the East and the West, connecting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Western Guangdong Region." Jiangmen's status as a node city in the construction of the Greater Bay Area will become more prominent, which can not only change the shortcomings of the unbalanced development on both sides of the Pearl River, but also give full play to the radiation effect of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on the western Guangdong region. ”
Li Yan, dean of Jiangmen Planning Survey and Design Research Institute and professor-level senior planner, said that the biggest significance of the opening of Jiangmen Station is to lay the foundation for Jiangmen's status as a hub city in Zhuxi and a gateway hub city in the Greater Bay Area. "This has laid a solid foundation for Jiangmen to deepen the construction of the Zhuxi transportation hub and lay a solid foundation for the implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan." In the next step, Jiangmen must plan more national railways, intercity railways and even urban rail stations to play a role in strengthening the socio-economic ties between the east and west sides of Guangdong. ”
Yang Yongcong, vice president of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, believes that the gathering of passenger flow and popularity will inevitably bring more investment opportunities to the area around Jiangmen Station and even the whole city of Jiangmen, thereby attracting more funds to participate in the development and construction of Jiangmen; and as a comprehensive transportation hub in Zhuxi, Jiangmen Station is adjacent to the Guangdong Rail Transit Industrial Park, and it is expected to attract more rail transit industry projects to settle in Jiangmen in the future.
Xia Junying, executive vice president of the Macau Jiangmen Hometown Association, said that in the future, Macao residents can quickly reach Jiangmen Station through the planned Pearl River-Zhaozhou High-Speed Railway and the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhuhai Intercity Railway. After the further optimization of the advantages of transportation location, the cooperation and development between Jiangsu and Macao will become closer and more frequent. "The operation of Jiangmen Station has further enhanced the location advantage of Jiangmen. Jiangmen has great potential for development, and I will actively recommend Jiangmen to my friends around me! Xia Junying said that Macao can use the operation of the station to let more Macao youth enter Jiangmen and promote economic and cultural exchanges between the two places. In addition, with the help of the advantages of transportation hubs, corresponding industrial chains can be formed, such as the "Macao sales, Jiangmen production" model, using the advantages of the two places to produce better benefits.
Source: Golden Sheep Network