On June 20, the train was traveling in the Dongjin New District of Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway Xiangyang City, Hubei Province. Photo/Xinhua News Agency
With convenient transportation, economic development will enter the fast lane. Recently, high-speed rail has become a hot word again.
html On June 20, the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and the Zhengpu Section of the Jizheng-Zhengzhou High-speed Railway were opened at the same time.This is another highlight moment for China’s high-speed rail construction, and the areas along the high-speed rail will also usher in new development opportunities.
According to reports, the opening of these two railway lines (sections) marks that Henan Province is the first in the country to build a "meter"-shaped high-speed rail network with Zhengzhou as the core, realizing "city-to-city high-speed rail" in 17 provincial municipalities. At the same time, Zhengzhou has also become the first rice-shaped high-speed rail hub in the country.
In addition to these, the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway and the Jizheng-Zhengzhou high-speed railway will also connect my country's three urban agglomerations, namely Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration , Central Plains urban agglomeration and Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration .
The opening of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and the Jizheng-Zhengzhou High-speed Railway has a far-reaching impact.
The economic artery covering 20% of the population
High-speed rail is an important symbol of transportation modernization. As a means of transportation, high-speed rail can not only shorten the time and space distance between regions, but also break down invisible barriers in regional economic development. Research by
related scholars shows that the opening of high-speed rail can drive the redistribution of production factors in the high-speed rail network. Areas with higher levels of economic development and more prominent economic agglomeration are highly overlapped with high-speed rail lines that have been completed and opened to traffic.
The connection between the two high-speed railways, the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and the Jizheng-Zhengzhou High-speed Railway, will not only provide transportation convenience for Shandong, Henan, Hubei, and Chongqing, but will also open up the "Rendu Second Line" for regional development among the four provinces and cities, becoming an important drivers of economic growth.
Public information shows that the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway is about 1,063 kilometers long, connecting three provinces and cities including Henan, Hubei and Chongqing. It starts from Chongqing North Station and mainly passes through Wanzhou, Xiangyang , Nanyang, Pingdingshan and other places. To Zhengzhou East Railway Station , the design speed is 350 kilometers per hour.
Jizheng High-Speed Railway runs from Zhengzhou East Station to Jinan West Station, connecting Shandong and Henan, two populous provinces. The total length of the line is 380 kilometers, with 7 stations along the way, and the design speed is also 350 kilometers per hour.
In addition to the "meter"-shaped high-speed rail network built in Henan, it is understood that with the opening of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed rail, the operating mileage of Chongqing's high-speed rail has exceeded 1,000 kilometers, fully starting a new journey of "2-hour Chongqing" construction.
Hubei’s high-speed rail mileage has also exceeded 1,000 kilometers. According to data from the Railway Department of the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the opening of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway has enabled the 350 kilometers per hour high-speed railway in Hubei Province to exceed 1,000 kilometers and reach 1,161 kilometers. The ranking of in 31 provincial administrative regions has risen from 11th to 11th. 7th place, entering the first phalanx of high-speed rail in the country.
The operation of the Zhengpu section of the Jizheng High-speed Railway also officially means that the full opening of the Jizheng High-speed Railway is imminent. Information from the Henan Provincial Development and Reform Commission shows that the Zhengzhou-Jiji High-speed Railway is expected to be fully completed in 2023. By then, you can go directly to Chongqing from Jinan via the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway.
Not only that, the importance of these two high-speed railways lies in their wide coverage.
In terms of regional economic radiation, the gross regional product (GDP) of the four provinces and cities of Shandong, Henan, Hubei and Chongqing in 2021 is about 30 trillion yuan, accounting for 26.3% of the country's 114 trillion yuan, nearly 30%.
From the perspective of the population size radiated, data from the seventh census show that the permanent populations of the four provinces and cities in 2020 are 101 million, 99 million, 57 million and 32 million respectively. A total of 289 million people account for more than 20% of the country's total population.
It is worth noting that there are many cities with a population of 10 million or nearly 10 million along the Ji-Zheng and Zheng-Chongqing high-speed railways, including Jinan, Zhengzhou, Nanyang, Chongqing, etc.
It is not difficult to see that the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and the Jizheng-Zhengzhou High-speed Railway are a veritable economic artery, whether in terms of economic aggregate or permanent population size.
Xinjing Think Tank learned that the full operation of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and the opening of the Zhengzhou-Puyang section of the Jizheng High-speed Railway will also have a great impact on Shandong.
According to calculations by poster news , a subsidiary of Dazhong Newspaper, after the completion of the Jizheng-Zhengzhou high-speed railway, the fastest time from Shandong to Chongqing via the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway will be reduced by half from the current level.
It is understood that the current running time of the high-speed train from Jinan West to Chongqing West is 12 hours and 11 minutes. If you take an ordinary K train from Jinan Station to Chongqing West, it will take 27 hours and 26 minutes.
The opening of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway has shortened the time from Zhengzhou to Chongqing to 4 hours. After the completion of the entire Jizheng High-speed Railway, the railway passenger train time from Jinan to Zhengzhou is expected to be shortened to less than 2 hours.
calculates based on this operating time, Jinan to Chongqing will be able to be controlled in about 6 hours in the future.
html On June 20, the conductor of train G9206 was waiting for passengers to board the train. On the same day, as the G9206 train slowly pulled out of Zhengzhou East Railway Station, the Jin (nan) Zheng (zhou) high-speed railway Puyang to Zhengzhou section was officially opened for operation. Photo / Xinhua News Agency Node cities have benefited significantly
There is no doubt that the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway and the Jizheng high-speed railway have a huge impact on the development of the node cities of Jinan, Zhengzhou and Chongqing.
Take Zhengzhou as an example. After becoming the core of Henan's "meter"-shaped high-speed rail network, the scope of economic radiation will also be expanded, which is undoubtedly a major benefit for Zhengzhou in terms of increasing its attractiveness for enterprises and population.
According to Henan media reports, currently, the high-speed rail departing from Zhengzhou, going to Xi'an in the west, Wuhan in the south, Shijiazhuang in the north, and Xuzhou in the east, are all within the "2-hour high-speed rail economic circle".
The seventh national census data shows that from 2010 to 2020, Zhengzhou added 3.974 million permanent residents. Among the 10 cities with the largest population growth in the country, Zhengzhou ranks fifth, with a higher population growth than the "Internet celebrity" city Hangzhou.
What needs attention is that Zhengzhou and Changsha are competing fiercely for the "Second City in Central China". In 2021, the total economic output of Zhengzhou and Changsha is 1,269.102 billion yuan and 1,327.07 billion yuan respectively. Changsha is only more than 50 billion yuan higher than Zhengzhou.
With the advantage of being a transportation hub brought by high-speed rail, whether Zhengzhou can overtake Changsha in the future will be a point worth watching.
For Chongqing, this is the second high-speed rail line with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour after the Chengdu-Chongqing High-speed Railway . Its importance is also self-evident.
In addition to the above-mentioned operating mileage of Chongqing’s high-speed railway exceeding 1,000 kilometers, the opening of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway will also significantly shorten the time it takes to travel north from Chongqing. After the opening of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway, the high-speed railway journey from Chongqing to Beijing was shortened to 6 hours, a full reduction of nearly 4 and a half hours from the previous time.
This plays a vital role in improving the connection efficiency between Chongqing and Beijing and promoting economic ties between the two municipalities.
On the other hand, the operation of the Zhengpu section of the Ji-Zheng high-speed railway not only ends the history of Puyang being blocked by high-speed rail and fills the gap of high-speed rail in eastern Henan northern region, but is also crucial to Jinan.
According to previous disclosures by local media in Shandong, the Puyang-Zhengzhou section is the main line of the Henan section of the Jizheng High-speed Railway. After entering Henan via Liaocheng from Jinan West Railway Station, Puyang is the first city reached.
The Jizheng High-speed Railway is more conducive to the development of Jinan and extending its tentacles to the southwest hinterland. Based on relevant analysis, from the perspective of the high-speed rail network, Jinan can rely on the Jizheng High-speed Railway to build a "one"-shaped transportation corridor along the Yellow River in the east-west direction. In the southwest direction, Jinan can directly reach the southwest region along the Yangtze River through lines such as the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway.
It should be pointed out that while Zhengzhou is building a "meter"-shaped high-speed rail network, Jinan also clearly stated in the report of the 12th Party Congress that it aims to create an international comprehensive transportation hub city and strive to build a "one axis, two "Corridor and Three Channels" will be integrated into the main transportation framework, and a "rice-shaped" high-speed rail network and a "second ring, one link and sixteen jets" high-speed network will be constructed.
Under the ecological protection and high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River Basin, this is of great significance for strengthening the connection between Jinan and Zhengzhou and breaking the previous zoning barriers.
"People's Daily" previously published a speech by the Secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee entitled "High-quality development path out of ecological priority green development", which mentioned that "joint hands with Zhengzhou and Xi'an to promote the development level of the entire Yellow River Basin" ” to promote the formation of a “three-pole leadership” pattern.
In fact, Xinjing Think Tank found that as early as 2017, the Jinan party and government inspection team went to Hangzhou, Hefei, and Zhengzhou, and benchmarked Zhengzhou as one of the measures to make up for Jinan’s development shortcomings.
html On June 20, passengers on the first G6791 train of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway Xiangyang East showed their tickets. The Three Gorges Reservoir Area welcomed the first high-speed railway, and the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway was opened to traffic. Photo / Xinhua News Agency Linking up the three urban agglomerations
The urban agglomerations have become an important starting point for the coordinated development of regional economies in my country. Research by
related scholars shows that as the agglomeration effect increases, the connections between cities become more and more important. Through the development of metropolitan areas and urban agglomerations, a new growth driver will be formed and the economic structure will be optimized.
From a larger perspective, the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and the Jizheng-Zhengzhou High-speed Railway will connect the three urban agglomerations of Shandong Peninsula City Group, Central Plains City Group and Chengdu-Chongqing City Group.
Among them, the Central Plains urban agglomeration and the Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration have received approval from the national level, and the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration is one of the major regional development strategies promoted by Shandong Province in recent years.
The Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway is an important part of the riverside channel and Hunan channel in China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network. It directly connects the Central Plains urban agglomeration with Zhengzhou as the core and the Chengdu-Chongqing city with Chongqing as the core. Group association.
This has also enabled the Central Plains urban agglomeration to achieve an unprecedented close connection with the Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration. From an industrial point of view, the advantage of the Central Plains urban agglomeration lies in the manufacturing industry. For example, the "Central Plains Urban Agglomeration Plan" has clearly stated the requirements for industrial development. "Create advantageous industrial clusters."
The Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration has outstanding advantages in consumption. In 2021, the total retail sales of consumer goods in Chongqing (the main urban area) and Chengdu will both exceed 1 trillion yuan, ranking third and sixth among Chinese cities respectively. Chongqing is one of the first batch of cities to cultivate and build international consumption center cities. one.
If we look at all aspects of economic development, the two urban agglomerations, one focused on production and the other on consumption, can complement each other's strengths.
On the other hand, the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration and the Central Plains urban agglomeration connected by the Jizheng High-speed Railway will enable the two urban agglomerations in the east and central China to achieve coordinated development.
Chen Yao, vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Association of Regional Economics, once told the media that the Shandong Peninsula needs to be connected to the Central Plains for transportation, and coastal ports also need a larger inland hinterland. This is also very important for the Jinan metropolitan area that is under construction.
At the 2020 national " Two Sessions ", National People's Congress representative Zhang Xuezheng submitted "Recommendations on Supporting the Construction of Jinan Metropolitan Area and the Jizheng Shuangcheng Economic Circle in the Lower reaches of the Yellow River" during the "Two Sessions".
Zhang Xuezheng believes that the problem of unbalanced development in the eastern, central and western parts of Shandong Province is more prominent, and it is urgent to support coordinated regional development with regional strategies. Focus on supporting the comprehensive docking and coordinated development of the Jinan Metropolitan Area and the Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area to create the Jizheng twin-city economic circle in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is of great significance for fully integrating into the Yellow River national strategy and leading the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
For this reason, the "Three-Year Action Plan for Jinan to Build a National Central City (2020-2022)" also clearly states that it will promote the construction of urban agglomerations in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Promote the docking cooperation between Jinan metropolitan area and Zhengzhou metropolitan area to lead the coordinated development of the central and western regions of Shandong and the Central Plains region; accelerate the interconnection of transportation facilities, strengthen regional connections and collaboration, and jointly build the "Belt and Road" two-way open land and sea channel.
Obviously, the coordinated development of the three urban agglomerations will have a profound impact on the high-quality development of China's economy and high-level opening up to the outside world. The Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and the Jizheng-Zhengzhou High-speed Railway will play an important role in this. Written by
/Researcher at Xinjing Think Tank, Editor by Zha Zhiyuan
/Proofread by Li Xiaoxiao
/Zhao Lin
