Transportation is a basic, service-oriented, strategic industry, and it is the foundation of rejuvenating the country and strengthening the country. The Outline of Building a Traffic Power issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council (referred to as "Construction Outline") has designed a grand blueprint for China’s traffic modernization and endowed our traffic people with a lofty mission. Building a transportation power is an important content to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it is also the only way to seize the opportunity of the new technological revolution and build a world-class transportation system.
China’s Traffic Development Situation and Mission
Since the founding of New China, China’s transportation industry has made great historical development. The transformation of transportation capacity from the bottleneck restriction at the beginning of reform and opening up to the initial relief at the end of the 20th century, and then to the current basic adaptation, has provided strong support for the rapid development of China’s economy and society. A comprehensive transportation network has basically taken shape, and the scale of infrastructure and passenger and freight volume rank among the top in the world. Breakthroughs have been made in scientific and technological innovation. The construction technology of high-speed railways, expressways, deep-water ports and large airports has reached the advanced level in the world. A number of projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge are world-famous. Fuxing high-speed train and C919 large passenger plane have become China’s beautiful business cards. With the continuous improvement of transportation services, traffic accidents are decreasing year by year. The ability of industry governance has been significantly enhanced. International influence and international competitiveness have been significantly improved. China has become a veritable transportation country. However, compared with developed countries, there is still a big gap in infrastructure, service level, energy consumption, road safety and innovation ability. At present, China is not a strong transportation country.
With China’s development entering a new era, traffic development will also enter a new stage. The main contradiction has turned into a contradiction between people’s yearning for a better life and inadequate imbalance in traffic development. The broad masses should not only "walk well" but also "walk well". Looking forward to the future, China’s industrial structure and energy structure will undergo important changes, and urbanization and population aging will become trends. At the same time, a new round of technological revolution in the world is reshaping the global economic structure. Economic globalization and the implementation of the "Belt and Road Initiative" all require the modernization of China’s transportation. It is imperative to build a strong transportation country.
To build China into a powerful socialist modernization country, it is required that transportation should go first and play a supporting role. It is necessary to build a traffic corridor, an economic corridor and a backbone of development; Relying on high-speed, convenient and networked modern transportation, shortening the time and space distance and promoting regional integration; Activate the traffic multiplier effect, promote high-speed rail economy, port economy and airport economy, and become the new engine of development; Integrate the Internet, develop smart travel, support "door-to-door", personalized and diversified services, and make people enjoy traveling happily.
To build a strong transportation country, we should take our own road. The United States, Europe, Japan and other countries have developed for more than a hundred years, and many experiences are worth learning. However, a country’s transportation development must be based on its own national conditions. China has a large land area, a large population, more energy, less coal and less oil, and a fragile environment. It has its own characteristics in terms of resource endowment, transportation demand and development stage. It cannot simply copy the development experience of other countries, especially the "car+plane" model of the United States, but should vigorously develop green transportation and public transportation. We should give full play to China’s institutional advantages of concentrating on major events and its leading position in local transportation fields, and take the road of becoming a transportation power with China characteristics.
Carrying out the Outline of Construction and Building a Powerful Transportation Country
The Outline of Construction defines the general idea of China’s transportation development, that is, "to build a modern comprehensive transportation system that is safe, convenient, efficient, green and economical", "to build first-class facilities, first-class technology, first-class management and first-class service, and to build a transportation power with satisfactory people, strong support and the forefront of the world"; The development goal of basically building a transportation power in 2035 and building a transportation power in an all-round way in the middle of this century was established. At the same time, the "Construction Outline" also clearly expounds the task of building a transportation power, and puts forward requirements on infrastructure, transportation equipment, transportation services, scientific and technological innovation, security, green development, international cooperation, team building, governance capacity, and safeguard measures. More importantly, in order to achieve the above objectives and tasks, the Construction Outline emphasizes that it is necessary to "promote the transformation of transportation development from pursuing speed and scale to paying more attention to quality and efficiency, from relatively independent development of various modes of transportation to paying more attention to integrated development, and from relying on traditional factors to paying more attention to innovation." In short, these three changes are: promoting high-quality development, promoting integrated development and promoting innovative development. From then on, this paper expounds the understanding of the construction of a strong transportation country.
About promoting high-quality development. Compared with the high-quality development level, there are still many shortcomings in China’s transportation field. The layout of infrastructure is not reasonable, and there is a big gap between urban and rural development; The proportion of green transportation is not high, and the problem of energy consumption emission is outstanding; Rural basic public services are weak, and logistics costs remain high; The safety level is not high; International competitiveness is not strong. To promote high-quality development is to make precise efforts, adjust the structure to make up for shortcomings, and build a modern and high-quality comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network; Construct a convenient and smooth urban (group) transportation network, give priority to the development of public transportation, and solve urban traffic congestion; Form a wide coverage of rural transportation infrastructure network and promote the organic combination of transportation construction and agricultural development. Construct a multi-level comprehensive transportation hub system to promote the deep integration of roads, railways, waterways, aviation and urban transportation. To promote high-quality development is to improve the level of transportation services, realize fast and convenient travel services and equalize basic public services; Focus on "full travel chain" and "full supply chain" and provide one-stop "door-to-door" first-class service; Passenger transport will be built into a 1-hour commuting circle in big cities, a 2-hour traffic circle in urban agglomerations and a 3-hour traffic circle between major cities in China; Develop multimodal transport of freight, reduce logistics costs, build an efficient express transportation system, and form a logistics circle of one-day delivery in China, two-day delivery in neighboring countries and three-day delivery in the world; Accelerate the development of new formats and modes such as shared transportation; Improve rural passenger service and innovate rural logistics development model.To promote high-quality development is to vigorously develop green transportation and promote the intensive application of resources such as land and sea areas; Optimize the traffic structure and promote the use of clean energy vehicles; Large cities should build an integrated transportation system with rail transit as the backbone and buses as the main body; Create a pleasant walking and cycling environment. To promote high-quality development is to improve the level of traffic safety, build a sound traffic safety management system, strengthen emergency rescue capabilities, and solve the problem of high road traffic casualty rate. To promote high-quality development is to deepen international cooperation, build an important channel to connect China Unicom and serve the world, build an international gateway hub for comprehensive transportation, and lay out global service fulcrums for shipping, civil aviation and railways; Build internationally renowned transportation enterprises and brands and enhance their competitiveness.
On promoting integrated development. Although China has basically formed a comprehensive transportation management system, the links of planning, construction and management need to be further straightened out; The construction of laws and regulations lags behind the development of industry. Promoting "integrated development" means perfecting the comprehensive transportation management system, coordinating the planning and construction of infrastructure such as railways, highways, water transport, civil aviation, pipelines and postal services, and promoting comprehensive development. Promote the optimization of transportation structure and support the transfer of bulk and long-distance cargo transportation from highway to railway and waterway. Develop public transportation and regulate the use of private cars with price mechanism. Improve the system of transportation laws and regulations, and formulate the Transportation Law to fill the gaps in the basic laws of transportation; Revise and formulate laws and regulations to adapt to the development of the situation and the emergence of new technologies and new economic formats.
About promoting innovation and development. Although China’s transportation science and technology has made many landmark innovations, its independent innovation ability is still insufficient; The core technology of some important equipment is controlled by people, and the overall level of intelligence needs to be improved. Promoting innovation and development is to build the world’s advanced transportation technology system, focus on improving innovation ability, break through core technologies, and solve the problem that core technologies such as automobiles, ships and airplanes are subject to people; Overcome the energy-saving technology of vehicles and reduce energy consumption emissions; Give full play to the advantages of China’s electric vehicles in production capacity, technology research and development, and charging infrastructure construction to achieve "lane change overtaking"; Maintain the leading position of high-speed railway, develop a 400-kilometer-per-hour high-speed train system, and overcome the low-vacuum pipeline high-speed maglev railway technology; Consolidate the leading advantages of transportation and civil engineering and port machinery technology. Promoting "innovation-driven development" is to improve the level of intelligent transportation, give play to the comparative advantages of China’s intelligent transportation development in market, technology and system, build an integrated transportation intelligent management platform and urban intelligent transportation system, optimize traffic planning, dispatching and command, operation and maintenance management, and help solve the traffic congestion problem; Promote the research and development of vehicle-road collaborative technology, concentrate on organizing research and realize automatic driving.
At present, the "Construction Outline" has been released and the objectives and tasks have been clearly defined. As a traffic person, we should work hard to build our country into a traffic power and make contributions to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(The author is Fu Zhihuan, an academician of China Academy of Engineering)
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