Reporter Tong Tong.
Connected to the Shandong Peninsula at one end and deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains at the other, a high-speed rail line that can not only add a new passage to the sea for the inland province of Henan, but also allow the coastal province of Shandong to connect the inland provinces, is expected to be infinitely expected.
On December 8, the Jinan-Puyang section of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway was completed and opened to traffic, marking the completion of the entire Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway. In the future, Jinan West to Zhengzhou East can achieve 1 hour and 43 minutes of direct access at the earliest. Through the efficient connection of the two provincial capitals of Jinan and Zhengzhou, the time and space distance between the urban agglomeration of the Shandong Peninsula and the urban agglomeration of the Central Plains has been further reduced. However, the positive impact is not limited to Shandong and Henan provinces. With the "entry of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway", the high-speed railway between Jinan, Taiyuan, Zhengzhou and Shijiazhuang, the capitals of the "four provinces of mountains and rivers" (Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and Hebei), has formed a closed loop, and the convenient access of "one day around the four provinces of mountains and rivers" will also make all elements unimpeded here.
The "rice-shaped" high-speed rail layout has given priority to Shandong and Henan.
The "rice shape" represents extending in all directions, and it is also one of the leading ideas for provinces to promote the layout of major infrastructure for many years. With the completion of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway, Jinan and Zhengzhou will benefit from the "rice-shaped" high-speed rail layout, which is conducive to the development of regional transportation and docking with the national convenient transportation network is becoming a reality.
A well-connected transportation network is an important prerequisite for accelerating the flow of factors, promoting coordinated regional development, and achieving high-quality development. Jia Ruoxiang, director of the Comprehensive Research Office of the Institute of Land Development and Regional Economy of the China Macroeconomic Research Institute, said in an interview with a reporter from the China Economic Times that with the characteristics of high-speed, convenient and large-scale one-way transportation, the construction of high-speed railway is becoming one of the important measures to lay out transportation infrastructure in various places, actively connect and weave the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, and help the coordinated development of the region.
It is in this context that Jinan and Zhengzhou have spared no effort to accelerate the formation of a "rice-shaped" high-speed rail pattern.
Jinan is one of the central cities in the Yellow River Basin, and Qingdao forms a "twin star" to undertake the important task of driving the balanced development of Shandong Province, and urgently needs to drive the development of the province through the construction of "rice-shaped" high-speed rail, and promote regional coordinated development and actively connect with the development opportunities of the "Belt and Road" by increasing the passage out of the province.
Zhang Ruhua, director of the Transportation Planning and Design Research Center of Shandong University, believes that Jinan's "rice-shaped" high-speed railway is an important support for expanding and strengthening the central city of the Yellow River Basin and radiating the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River. In the high-speed rail channel that radiates outward in Shandong, the opening of the Jizheng high-speed railway can play a role in four or two thousand catties.
In fact, this will make up for and connect with the demand for high-speed rail travel in more cities in Shandong Province to a certain extent. After all, by docking with Zhengzhou, which has the title of "national railway heart", it can make more choices for travel needs in the east, west, north and south. For example, Liaocheng, Dongying, Binzhou, Qingdao and other cities in Shandong Province can get more travel route options with the help of the Jizheng high-speed railway.
Different from Jinan, the full line of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway will have a good impact on Zhengzhou and even the whole of Henan. The opening of the whole line of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway not only marks that Henan is the first in the country to fully build a "rice-shaped" high-speed rail network, but also allows Zhengzhou to continue to improve the advantages of high-speed rail hub, consolidating its "laurel" advantage of ranking first in the country in the number of key cities reached by high-speed rail bullet trains.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Henan's "rice-shaped" high-speed rail layout has spread all over the province, which has formed a "12345" high-speed rail travel circle with Zhengzhou as the center, covering all provincial municipalities in the province in 1 hour, connecting surrounding provincial capitals and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in 2 hours, reaching the Yangtze River Delta region in 3 hours, reaching the Chongqing region in 4 hours, and reaching the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other major economic zones in the country in 5 hours.
The operation of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway will have a substantial enhancement effect on the economic interaction and integrated development of Shandong and Henan. Liu Jianhua, a professor at the Institute of Yellow River Ecological Protection and Regional Coordinated Development of Zhengzhou University, said that Shandong, as the only province in the Yellow River Basin, has good seaport resources, and Henan can better participate in the international economic cycle with the help of ShandongWith the help of Zhengzhou's railway hub and international air cargo hub, Shandong can also join the domestic economic cycle more efficiently, thereby strengthening economic cooperation ties with more regions.
High-speed rail accelerates the circulation of high-quality factors, which is conducive to the coordinated development of the region.
In Jia Ruoxiang's view, in recent years, regional economic development has been seeking breakthroughs in breaking through administrative barriers and strengthening cross-regional connectivity. On the one hand, promote the smooth flow of factors in a wider range, so that the passenger transport needs such as long-distance travel, business travel, and study can be satisfied;On the other hand, through the increasing improvement of modern transportation infrastructure construction such as high-speed, high-speed rail, shipping, and air transportation, the efficient and convenient flow of factors will be strengthened, which will benefit the cross-regional layout of the industry. The completion of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed rail will further activate the development potential of the two places in the logistics, manufacturing and port industries.
The demand for talents in Henan and Shandong is increasing year by year. Up to now, the total number of human resources in Henan Province has reached 1410310,000 people, the total number of human resources in Shandong Province exceeds 15 million. Jia Ruoxiang believes that the opening of high-speed rail will help to significantly improve and enhance the internal resource allocation structure, efficiency and benefits of different cities in the region, including industrial division of labor and enterprise layout, and is also conducive to mutual communication between different cities in the region.
The advantages of transportation promote the accelerated circulation of talents, capital and other factors, thereby promoting the coordinated development of the region. Jia Ruoxiang said that this process not only needs to achieve more balanced public service support, but also needs to further stimulate consumption potential, inject continuous impetus into economic development, and provide assistance for the improvement of residents' lives.
It is worth mentioning that the "four provinces of mountains and rivers" will continue to benefit. From the perspective of railway network distribution, Jinan to Shijiazhuang Shiji passenger dedicated, Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan Shitai high-speed railway, Taiyuan to Zhengzhou Zhengtai high-speed railway have been opened to traffic, and the whole line of Jinan, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Zhengzhou four provincial capitals to share the convenience of high-speed rail.
The convenient high-speed rail travel has increased the employment scope and choices of many students. Zhao Lin, a senior student from Zibo, Shandong Province, majoring in logistics management at Zhengzhou University, told the China Economic Times reporter that the Internet of Things and the circulation industry are her future employment direction, "Nowadays, the cooperation between Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces is getting closer and closer, and employment in these four places is becoming the first choice of many peers." In her view, the convenience of transportation has made many people's desire to balance proximity to home and cross-provincial employment a reality.
From this point of view, the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway has not only opened up a number of railway passages connecting the south to the north and crossing the east and west in space, but also opened a new chapter in the coordinated development of the provinces along the high-speed railway.