From the end of 2020, the total mileage of highways in our province has reached 5744.6 kilometers. In 2019, the province's highway passenger bus flow exceeded 170 million and the truck traffic exceeded 110 million.
The expressways in Shanxi have been developing rapidly, bringing qualitative improvements to all aspects of Shanxi, but do you know? In fact, Shanxi's expressways were built only in 1993, from nothing to something, from something to many, from "herring skeleton, nine horizontal and nine rings" to "three vertical and eleven horizontal and eleven rings", and then to "4 vertical and 15 horizontal and 33 links", Shanxi's expressway construction has made rapid progress, and highways are like colored dancing, and vertical and horizontal links. These huge changes have reflected the great leap of Shanxi's transportation in the past 30 years.
Shanxi First Road
" Even if you sell the provincial party committee building, you must make too old high-speed Road was repaired! "
That's right, Taiyu Expressway is our first road in Shanxi (the first expressway in Shanxi) . At that time, Shanxi was worthy of this name. There were many mountains and few lands. Therefore, walking out of the mountains was the dream of generations of our Shanxi people!
In the late 1980s, we Shanxi people wanted to go to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places. The only way to go was 07 National Highway . Because there was only one road, the congestion was conceivable. It was often dozens of kilometers, and it was normal for three or four days to be blocked. Therefore, many villagers around would come out to do retail, sell food and drink, and make money and have a lot of fun~
At that time, Shanxi was a large base for energy and heavy chemical engineering in the country, but it was stuck in the "neck" by traffic. In 1993, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government made an unprecedented decision, which was to open the east gate of Shanxi and build the expressway from Taiyuan to Jiuguan. However, the cost of building a highway was more than 20 million yuan per kilometer, and the total length of Taijiu Expressway cost nearly 3 billion yuan. At that time, Shanxi Province's fiscal revenue was only about 6 billion yuan~
1994, Hu Fuguo, then Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, expressed the determination of the provincial party committee to build Taijiu Expressway, and said the famous saying of selling buildings and building roads at the beginning, and the Internet term was simply miserable!
Later, through everyone's efforts, after all, the funds were finally enough. In June 11993, the Taijiu Expressway broke ground and opened to traffic on June 25, 1996. Its construction is a concentrated reflection of the crystallization of Shanxi highway traffic technology.
Taiyu Expressway has created the first place in the country's spiritual civilization, the first quality of road construction, and the first speed of construction. has been praised by news media in the United States, Japan, Singapore and other countries. The Wusu Interchange Hub, the largest interchange hub in the country, has completed a four-year construction period of 10 months and 18 days. Its quality has won the Luban Award, making it a miracle in the history of world highway construction.
The impact of highway construction on Shanxi's tourism economy
As the saying goes, looking at Shanxi for five thousand years of civilization, Shanxi is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. The long history and culture have left behind many cultural heritages. Coupled with the complex terrain and landforms, natural landscapes formed by rivers and mountains, the tourism resources are very rich.
However, due to the inconvenience of transportation, tourists from all over the country were directly dissuaded!
It is difficult to travel and difficult to walk, which has stumped everyone's enthusiasm for Shanxi culture and stumped the Sanjin scenic spots with a long cultural history...
Therefore, building a highway is an inevitable choice for Shanxi to develop the tourism industry.
005, Shanxi Province's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" will focus on incorporating the construction and development of tourist highways into it. At the same time, it will build multiple tourist highways, and the application for many world heritage sites has been successful. The Shanxi Tourism Highway Network, based on expressways, instantly brings all tourist attractions in the province to live and bring fire! Shanxi's tourism industry has changed the miserable situation of being deserted in front of the door and has gradually become popular.
Tourism industry is an emerging industry in Shanxi. With the increasing number of expressways, Shanxi's tourism industry is also blooming everywhere, the scale of the industry continues to expand, and the contribution of the industry continues to increase, which plays a very important role in Shanxi's economy, culture, society, etc.
To put it bluntly, take the Qingming Festival holiday that just passed for example. Is there a lot of people going out to play around Taiyuan? Is it crowded? How could this happen in Taiyuan in the past?
Tourism economic development and expressways in Shanxi Relationships are inseparable. First of all, it plays a basic role in self-driving tours in the tourism industry. Only when you have roads can you drive out to play; secondly, the fast driving speed of highways, few safety traffic accidents, and the rapid development of greening along the highway and the rapid development of the service industry can meet the needs of tourism in all aspects; finally, the completion of the expressway allows Shanxi to go to the world, let the world understand Shanxi, and let more people go to Shanxi and understand Shanxi, which can further promote the rapid economic development of our Shanxi.
"Trainage is the boat of civilization."
At present, the modern comprehensive transportation network in our province is accelerating the formation, and a comprehensive transportation channel connecting east and west and smooth north and south is basically connected, and the "three vertical and twelve horizontal" highway network is basically formed. 95.7% of counties have achieved highway coverage, and the road network structure is constantly improved. The planned 33 exits and 27 have been built.
Roads are booming, and the transportation is very different. In the past 30 years, the expressways in our province have achieved a leap from 0 to 5744.6 kilometers, achieving the construction achievements from the opening of a highway to the basic formation of the "three vertical and twelve horizontal" expressway network. On the land of Sanjin, the golden road network has supported the economic takeoff, and the traffic has greatly changed to bring happiness to the people.
