Optimize the corridor layout, upgrade the logistics network, and strengthen the capacity of high-speed rail freight and international air freight.

Optimize the corridor layout, upgrade the logistics network, and strengthen the capacity of high-speed rail freight and international air freight.
Modern comprehensive transportation is moving towards higher efficiency

At the eighth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee, the Supreme Leader General Secretary emphasized that the circulation system plays a fundamental role in the national economy, and to build a new development pattern, it is necessary to take the construction of a modern circulation system as an important strategic task.

Transportation is the basic link and important support for building a modern circulation system and smoothing the national economic cycle. It is necessary to build a modern comprehensive transportation system, form a unified and open transportation market, optimize and improve the layout of comprehensive transportation corridor, strengthen the capacity building of high-speed rail freight and international air freight, and accelerate the formation of a safe and efficient logistics network with internal and external connectivity.

Transportation connects the two ends of production and consumption, which is the basic link and important support for building a modern circulation system and smoothing the national economic cycle. At the eighth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee, the Supreme Leader General Secretary proposed to build a modern comprehensive transportation system, form a unified and open transportation market, optimize and improve the layout of comprehensive transportation corridor, strengthen the capacity building of high-speed rail freight and international air freight, and accelerate the formation of a safe and efficient logistics network with internal and external connectivity.

What is the modern comprehensive transportation system like? How to speed up the construction? The reporter conducted an interview.

Lay a solid foundation-

Optimize and improve the layout of comprehensive transportation corridor.

Logistics is an important aspect of circulation, and transportation is an important support of logistics. Since the beginning of this year, a series of major transportation projects have been accelerated, which is expected to make the transportation skeleton stronger: looking at the highway, the construction of projects such as Baoshan-Lushui Expressway in Yunnan, Pingliang-Tianshui Expressway in Gansu and Yanjiang Expressway in Sichuan has been stepped up; Looking at the railway, the daily average number of trains on Haoji Railway, a new channel of "North Coal to South Transportation" newly opened to traffic last year, has increased to 20, and sichuan-tibet railway is also advancing in stages; Looking at aviation, the construction of new airports in Chengdu, Qingdao and other places is busy …

"After years of development, China’s transportation infrastructure construction has made remarkable progress, and the mileage of expressways and high-speed railways both ranks first in the world. However, compared with the requirements of building a new development pattern and smoothing the national economic cycle, there is still much room for improvement." Zhang Xiaodong, a professor at the School of Transportation of Beijing Jiaotong University, said.

Next, how to optimize and improve the layout of comprehensive transportation corridor?

We should pursue comprehensive efficiency. Zhang Xiaodong analyzed that at present, the roads and railways in the eastern and central regions of China are relatively developed. In the future, we should focus on improving the connection level of existing transportation facilities and give full play to the comprehensive efficiency of modern transportation. "Comparatively speaking, the transportation network in some central and western regions is not perfect enough. It is necessary to work out the layout at the height of connecting the east, west, sea, land and air, and connecting home and abroad, helping to form a unified domestic market and connecting more people and logistics into domestic circulation and international circulation. This idea is reflected in the Silk Road Economic Belt in the north, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in the south, the new land and sea channel in the west that connects the Yangtze River Economic Belt in coordination, and the China-Europe train connecting Asia and Europe. "

We should strengthen the weak links. "Compared with some developed countries, the number of airports in China is still small, especially in urban agglomerations such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, where passenger and cargo transportation demand is strong." Li Xiaojin, director of civil aviation university of china Institute of Air Transport Economics, believes that relevant parties should appropriately expand the supply of airspace and ground resources and strengthen airport construction.

Wu Chungeng, spokesman of the Ministry of Transport, told the reporter that the Ministry of Transport will deploy and speed up the construction of comprehensive transportation corridor, hubs and network systems, focusing on promoting major projects such as the river-crossing and sea-crossing highway system along the border and coast, the new land-sea passage (Pinglu) canal in the west, the Xianggui canal and the Jiangxi-Guangdong canal, and promoting the construction of "four good rural roads", enhancing the capacity and toughness of the main passages, and enhancing the traffic density and vitality.

Make up the short board-

Strengthen the capacity building of high-speed rail freight and international air freight.

On July 19th, with the entry of a new all-cargo plane, SF Airlines’ cargo fleet expanded to 60 after 11 years of "sailing".

Since the outbreak, many passenger flights have been greatly reduced, but SF air cargo is still busy and efficient, transporting a large number of epidemic prevention and living materials for various places, which shows the advantages of fast transportation speed and high stability of all cargo planes.

Due to the late start, China’s air freight still has shortcomings. "According to the statistics of 2019, in China’s air cargo, passenger aircraft belly cabin transportation is still the main mode, accounting for about 70% of the cargo volume, and the proportion of domestic routes is higher, reaching 82%." Li Xiaojin said that improving the capacity of air freight, especially international air freight, is conducive to maintaining the stability of China’s industrial chain supply chain and enhancing the ability of China’s economy to resist risks.

How to make up the short board? "With the acceleration of consumption upgrading and the release of domestic demand potential, the transportation demand of high-value products such as electronics, fashion and medicine will gradually increase, driving the development of air freight." Li Xiaojin suggested that relevant regions and departments should take advantage of the situation and strengthen their support, such as developing freight airports by planning new construction, revitalizing resources and "bringing goods by passengers", and encouraging air freight enterprises to expand their fleet size and become integrated logistics enterprises, etc. "Gradually build an air freight facility layout with perfect functions, reasonable layout and smooth connection and an air freight network system that reaches the whole world."

Like the aviation field, railway transportation used to have a tendency of "emphasizing passengers over goods". "In recent years, after the continuous advancement of transportation structure adjustment, railway freight has stabilized and rebounded." Zhang Xiaodong told reporters that in 2018, the proportion of railway freight volume in the total social freight volume has increased. "Although there is progress, there is still a big gap between the ideal level and it needs to be strengthened."

In railway freight, high-speed rail freight is the most "young". "In recent years, China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd. has done a lot of exploration, such as using high-speed trains that don’t pull passengers to transport goods, taking goods with the car in some vacant large luggage storage places, or choosing some time slots and routes with low attendance rate to make room for freight. In addition, dedicated high-speed rail freight EMUs are also being piloted. " Zhang Xiaodong believes that high-speed rail freight has great potential and space. "In the long run, China’s use of the world’s most developed high-speed rail network to develop high-end freight is conducive to providing efficient, energy-saving and stable transportation support for the smooth circulation of the national economy."

The key to making high-speed rail freight "fire up" is to promote market-oriented reform. In 2018, China Railway Express and SF established China Railway SF through mixed reform, which organically combined their railway transportation resources and terminal distribution capacity, and the "high-speed rail" product launched also achieved "door-to-door" full service. Zhang Xiaodong said, "In the past, railway freight transportation focused on’ station to station’. The development of high-speed rail freight requires railway enterprises to deepen reforms and effectively improve transportation timeliness, train stability and integrated logistics integration. "

Optimize the structure—

Accelerate the formation of a safe and efficient logistics network with internal and external connectivity.

At 12: 25 on October 8th, the No.34114 train loaded with more than 2,900 tons of soybeans and corn left the container center station of Qinzhou Railway in Guangxi for Yiliang North Station in Kunming. So far, the container handling capacity of the new western land and sea passage (Qinzhou Port) has exceeded 200,000 TEUs.

The new land and sea passage in the west is the most convenient sea passage for goods in many western provinces. In recent years, thanks to the rapid development of rail-sea combined transport, all kinds of goods and containers will soon be able to sail out to sea after arriving at the port by train from the hinterland of the west. The rapid development of multimodal transport has further improved the overall transportation efficiency in China.

The progress is obvious, and the gap still exists. Wu Chungeng analyzed that at present, the structural contradictions of China’s transportation modes are still outstanding, especially in the freight field. Roads have undertaken too many medium-and long-distance goods and bulk goods transportation. "The connection of various transportation modes also needs to be strengthened, the conversion efficiency is low, the development of multimodal transport is lagging behind, and the terminal circulation is not smooth."

Generally speaking, China’s comprehensive transportation structure still needs to be optimized, and the key is to accelerate the formation of a safe and efficient logistics network with internal and external connectivity. "Only by integrating the smooth transportation network with the internal and external logistics network can we effectively support the modern circulation system." Zhang Xiaodong said.

On the one hand, it is necessary to connect internally and externally to ensure safety.

"What shippers need is door-to-door service, but most Chinese airlines can only provide airport-to-airport service for international freight transportation, especially overseas, and there is still a lack of necessary logistics network layout." Li Xiaojin said. Wu Chungeng said, "We will speed up the construction of the international logistics supply chain system, improve the transshipment system and ground service network, improve the support capacity of key channels and nodes, and do a good job in ensuring the key strategic materials."

On the other hand, it is necessary to connect smoothly and pursue high efficiency.

"In Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, the airport freight area and Foxconn factory are connected by railway, and electronic products can get on the train and board the plane just after leaving the workshop, which is very convenient." Li Xiaojin told reporters that at present, less than 20% of the more than 200 domestic airports are connected to railways, and most of the tracks are still used to transport passengers. "There is great potential for air-rail combined transport."

Wu Chungeng said that in the next step, China will strengthen the construction of special railway lines, water transport infrastructure, multimodal transport hub stations and collection and distribution systems, and make overall plans to study the proportional relationship between high-speed rail, ordinary rail, urban rail transit, aviation and water transport, and comprehensively improve the service level of multimodal transport. (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang)