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Users - accelerate development across the river.
Reporter Yao Xueqing.
People** 2024-02-11 Edition 06).
Since the first cross-river bridge in 1968, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province has successively built five cross-river passages. The Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge opened to traffic in 2000, the Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge opened to traffic in 2005, the Qixiashan Yangtze River Bridge opened to traffic in 2012, and the Jiangxinzhou Yangtze River Bridge opened to traffic in 2020. Ding Quan, director of the Yangtze River Bridge and Tunnel Management Center of Nanjing Highway Development Center, said that the five bridges crossing the river pass 300,000 vehicles every day, and there is not much difference between Jiangnan and Jiangbei from a geographical point of view.
At 7:45 in the morning, Wang Han, a maintenance staff member of the Nanjing Highway Development Center, drove 5 minutes through the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge from his home near the Laopukou Wharf in Jiangbei, Nanjing, and came to the unit south of the Yangtze River at about 8:15. Wang Han said that now visiting parents or friends for gatherings, whether going to Jiangnan or Jiangbei, is "a matter of stepping on the accelerator".
Wang Han's grandfather had a different kind of affection for the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. In 1953, the old man reported to his work unit from Shandong to Nanjing, went to the Pukou Railway Station in Jiangbei at 8 o'clock in the morning, and then queued up from the Pukou Wharf to take a ferry across the river, and arrived at the unit in the evening. In 1968, the bridge was completed and opened to traffic, and the railway stations and railway lines on both sides of the Yangtze River were opened, and the Beijing-Shanghai railway was connected in series. At that time, the old man went back to Shandong to take the train through the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, and the 4-minute song on the radio was over, and the train drove across the Yangtze River, saving several hours.
The bridge across the river also makes the industry more mobile. The Jiangxinzhou Yangtze River Bridge, which opened to traffic in 2020, connects Nanjing Hexi New Town, Jiangxinzhou Science and Technology Ecological Island, and Jiangbei New Area Research and Innovation Park.
Xiao Zhengyu, 44, is an entrepreneur engaged in the production and operation of software and hardware products related to autonomous driving. His family lives in the east of Nanjing, where the company that produces sensors is in the west of Nanjing, and the company that makes software is in the south of Nanjing. "Jiangxinzhou Yangtze River Bridge is the only way for me to go to the two companies, commuting is very convenient, and the branch and important customers are in Hefei, Anhui Province, from Jiangxinzhou Yangtze River Bridge to Hefei can be shortened by half an hour's drive. Xiao Zhengyu said frankly that the completion and opening of the Yangtze River Bridge in Jiangxinzhou is very helpful to the company's expansion of business in the Yangtze River Delta.
Wu Fuxiang, chief expert of regional economy of the Yangtze River Industry and Economics Think Tank of Nanjing University, said that after the transportation artery along the Yangtze River was opened, the economic ties and cooperation within the region were strengthened, and the two-way industrial transfer between regions was promoted. At the same time, many cities in the Yangtze River Delta have abundant tourism resources, and the cross-river bridge can drive the development of tourism and related industries.
Looking at the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River, 18 channels have been built on the river surface of more than 400 kilometers, which is equivalent to an average of 24 kilometers of a river crossing channel. In the future, after all the planned passages are completed, this value will be further shortened to 10 kilometers, which will further alleviate the problem of crossing the river and better promote the coordinated development of the region.