The formation of the "one hour living circle" is accelerating, and after the opening of the Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway, the Greater Bay Area has become "smaller"
2024-10-21
These grass carp weighing over ten pounds are geographical indication products of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China, known as crispy grass carp. Through local special breeding methods, the meat of grass carp has become more robust and crispy, becoming a popular specialty dish on the dining tables in Guangdong region. Every morning at 4 o'clock, Liang Zhihong and his colleagues have to salvage the crispy grass carp from the fish pond and load them onto trucks, preparing to send them to restaurants in Shenzhen. From the map, the the Pearl River Estuary is a standard A-shaped inner bay. For a long time, in order to deliver crispy grass carp from Zhongshan to customers in Shenzhen, they need to go north from the top of the Inner Bay and take a big bend through the Humen Bridge to reach Shenzhen. On June 30, 2024, after seven years of construction, the Shenzhen China Channel was officially opened to traffic, breaking the physical and geographical barrier of the the Pearl River Estuary. The travel time from Shenzhen to Zhongshan has been reduced from 2 hours to 30 minutes. The crispy grass carp from Zhongshan can reach Shenzhen more quickly and radiate further to the eastern Guangdong region through the Shenzhen Zhongshan Passage. At the same time, a large number of tourists from the eastern Guangdong region also flock to Zhongshan through the Shenzhen Zhongshan Passage. During the period after the opening of the Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway, many netizens joked that Shenzhen diners had eaten up all the pigeons in Zhongshan, resulting in a shortage of pigeons in Zhongshan. According to statistics from relevant departments, since the opening of the Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway, the daily average traffic volume has reached 100000 trains. During the National Day holiday in 2024, the total traffic volume of the Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway reached 926300 vehicles. As a super project connecting the east and west sides of the the Pearl River, the Shenzhen China Channel is more than just shortening the physical distance. Its completion and opening to traffic has brought great opportunities for high-quality development of the east and west sides of the the Pearl River Estuary. 20 years ago, Yuan Moli joined this young enterprise that had just started in the field of intelligent manufacturing equipment for light-emitting diodes. After years of training, she rose from a newcomer in the industry to join the decision-making team of the company under the renowned "Shenzhen Speed". Every Tuesday is a fixed time for Yuan Moli to go to Zhongshan for work. As the person in charge of the company's production base in Zhongshan, this dual city work model has been ongoing for 7 years. Yuan Moli, Director of the President's Office of Shenzhen Xinyichang Technology Co., Ltd.: Before the opening of the Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway, it was blocked every time, whether in the past or back. The entire Guangfo Expressway was blocked, and in the past, it took more than two hours on one side. Since 2017, this rapidly growing local enterprise in Shenzhen has been in urgent need of broader development space. After several comparisons, they have established a production base in Zhongshan, which faces Shenzhen across the sea. The potential talent loss that may arise with the westward relocation of enterprises is a problem that Yuan Moli, as a manager, must face directly. Settling the lives of employees from Shenzhen in Zhongshan and solving their worries has been the focus of Yuan Moli's management work in the past two years. Zou Yuanlai's child will start junior high school this year, and Yuan Moli once again seeks help from the government. In 2022, this new production base with a completed area of over 70000 square meters will be officially put into operation. Zou Yuanlai, who has been working and living in Shenzhen, also moved with his family to Zhongshan with the company, and his children smoothly entered local schools in Zhongshan to study. With the opening of cross city public transportation between Shenzhen and Zhongshan, Zou Yuanlai's wife can now take the bus to travel between Shenzhen and Zhongshan every day through the Shenzhen Zhongshan passage, ending her life of living apart from her family. Yuan Moli, Director of the President's Office of Shenzhen Xinyichang Technology Co., Ltd.: Because we have settled down here, we all feel like we are from New Zhongshan now. After the completion of the second industrial park, with a combined area of over 200000 square meters of factories on both sides, we will not have to consider the issue of production capacity and space in the coming years. The Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway is truly a golden avenue for our company and is very important. Every day, countless meetings take place amidst the traffic in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. As one of the most open and economically vibrant regions in China, the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area is accelerating the formation of a "one hour living circle". For young Macau businessman Lai Chi Kin and his partners, "one foot oil" shopping in the Bay Area has become their daily work routine. In 2018, Li Zijian and his high school classmates came to mainland China to start their own business and embarked on their dream of drones. From the first generation all-weather automatic cycle inventory system to all-round inspection robots and then to shipborne drones. The Bay Area has given Li Zijian a vast space with infinite depth. In 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of the Development Plan for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, which clearly proposed to "improve the development level of the west bank of the the Pearl River and promote the coordinated development of the east and west sides". For a long time, the development of the east and west sides of the the Pearl River Estuary has been unbalanced, showing the development characteristics of "strong in the east and weak in the west", weak economic ties between the two sides, and low level of industrial synergy. The completion and opening of the Shenzhen China Channel will strengthen the regional ties between the two sides of the the Pearl River Estuary and further promote regional economic integration and development. Both sides of the Pearl River estuary, especially the cities on the west bank, share the development dividend brought by the opening of the Shenzhen China Channel. As the landing point on the west bank of the the Pearl River of the Shenzhen China Channel, Zhongshan will usher in a new historic opportunity to break the situation. Fragmentation and inefficiency of land have always been common problems in the Pearl River Delta region. Zhongshan City is a manufacturing city mainly based on traditional industries. Many industrial parks in Zhongshan generally have problems such as outdated production forms, low production capacity, multiple safety production hazards, and serious environmental pollution. At the end of 2021, Zhongshan began to deeply explore the reform of land conservation and intensive utilization, taking the transformation and upgrading of inefficient industrial parks as a breakthrough point, freeing up space for high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, and seizing the development opportunities brought by the completion of the Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway. Xiaolan Town, located in the northwest of Zhongshan City, is one of the more than 200 central towns in Guangdong Province and a strong industrial town in Zhongshan City. After years of development, Xiaolan Town has formed 9 pillar industries including hardware products, electronic appliances, clothing and footwear, and chemical adhesives. Before the transformation and upgrading of low efficiency industrial parks in villages and towns in Zhongshan City in 2021, the land development intensity of the entire town had reached 61%, seriously restricting the transformation and upgrading of local traditional industries. By revitalizing numerous inefficient industrial land and making good use of newly released land resources, Xiaolan Town hopes to not only undertake emerging industries, but also promote the integration of traditional advantageous industries upstream and downstream, and promote endogenous transformation and upgrading. When the Shenzhen Zhongshan Expressway is about to be completed and opened to traffic, the third phase of the Bay Area Smart Valley project will be capped in May 2024. During the construction process, 40 high-end enterprises have already been introduced, most of which are from Shenzhen. With the opening of the Shenzhen Zhongshan Channel, the new industrial synergy model of Shenzhen R&D and Xiaolan Manufacturing will lead this Zhongshan industrial strong town and commercial hub to accelerate the pace of industrial upgrading. While Zhongshan is speeding up industrial reform to prepare for the resource spillover from the east bank of the the Pearl River Estuary after the opening of the Shenzhen China Channel, many local traditional manufacturing enterprises in Zhongshan have also taken the initiative to speed up their digital transformation and upgrading. Wu Qitao, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences: The eastern coast is more of a gathering area for the electronic information industry, while the western coast is more of a gathering area for traditional manufacturing industries. Therefore, the first thing that comes to mind is the electronic information industry represented by Shenzhen in the eastern coast, which can promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries in the western coast, especially the transformation towards intelligence. This super 'giant' is the world's largest single capacity floating wind turbine, the 'Tiancheng', and the world's first floating dual rotor wind turbine. It is approximately 73 stories tall and has a base the size of two football fields. In 2009, the world's first floating wind turbine was built in Norwegian waters. However, 15 years have passed and floating wind technology has not yet been commercially available on a large scale. With the help of the development of new energy, Wang Chao's company has rapidly risen from a follower to a leader in offshore wind power in just 10 years of development. In September 2023, when Typhoon No. 9 "Sula" made landfall in Guangdong, the offshore wind turbines developed by Wang Chao's company not only resisted wind speeds above level 17, but also converted unusable wind into green electricity. The "Tiancheng" vessel, which will soon be applied in waters deeper than 35 meters, will reduce the unit cost of offshore wind power from 18000 yuan to less than 10000 yuan through a series of innovative technologies, and reduce the installation time of large-scale offshore wind farms from 6 months to 1 month. It will be the benchmark set by Chinese wind power for the development of global anti typhoon floating wind turbines. On August 11, 2024, the "Mingyang Tiancheng" set sail from Nansha, Guangzhou, and sailed into the the Pearl River estuary along the sea channel of Guangzhou Port. The Mingyang Tiancheng, with a maximum height of 219 meters, is the first sea super-high special equipment to pass through the Shenzhen Zhongshan Passage after its official opening, and also the highest scale offshore platform to pass through since its construction. After three channel changes, the "Mingyang Tiancheng" continued southward through the Shenzhong Channel, passed through the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge, and finally arrived at the Sihai Wind Farm in Qingzhou, Yangjiang, Guangdong after 72 hours of towing. As a local enterprise that grew up in Zhongshan, Mingyang can be said to have emerged by the sea. Backed by the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Mingyang has sparked waves of innovation in offshore wind power technology through repeated self transcendence, constantly expanding the boundaries of offshore wind power development. Wu Qitao, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences: From the first Humen Bridge in 1997 to the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge in 2018, in addition to this, we also have the Nansha Bridge, the Lianhuashan Channel that may be built in the future, and the Shenzhen Pearl River Channel that is currently doing preliminary research. In the future, the construction of the the Pearl River Estuary cross sea channel will be further promoted. Transportation is interconnected, and we need to leverage the convenience brought by transportation infrastructure to facilitate the development of this region. This will enable the East and West coasts to become demonstration and leading areas for the construction, high-level, and high-quality development of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, thereby promoting the overall development of the Greater Bay Area. (New Society)
Edit：Lubaikang Responsible editor：Chenze
Source：CCTV.com
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