At present, the planning of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area proposed by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has become a national strategy. Zhejiang and Shanghai are also discussing the planning of Greater Bay Area in Hangzhou Bay. Both the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta are planning to develop the Bay Area economy. Although there is no news about the planning of Greater Bay Area in the Bohai Rim region, the high-speed rail in the Bohai Rim region has made new progress, which may accelerate the economic integration and interaction in this region.
At present, the second high-speed railway from Beijing to Tianjin Binhai New Area (Jingbin high-speed railway) is about to start, and the feasibility study report of Tianjin Binhai New Area to Weifang, Shandong Province has been approved by the state and construction has started. Recently, the pre-feasibility study review meeting of Weifang-Yantai express railway was held, which created conditions for the construction of the last section of the high-speed railway around the Bohai Sea as soon as possible. Previously, high-speed trains from Dalian to Yingkou, Qinhuangdao and Tianjin Binhai New Area had been opened to traffic.
At present, there are urban agglomerations in central and southern Liaoning, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Shandong Peninsula. After the completion of the high-speed railway around Bohai Sea in the future, the space-time distance between cities along the route will be shortened, and the urban agglomeration may be further integrated. After the completion of the high-speed railway around the Bohai Sea, Tianjin can go directly to Qingdao in less than 2 hours, which is more than half of the current time. After the completion of the submarine high-speed railway from Dalian to Yantai, it only takes about half an hour to get there directly, and the economic interaction between urban agglomerations will be more frequent.
2 1 Century Business Herald The reporter learned that the high-speed rail around the Bohai Sea is expected to be approved across the board. Among them, there are already high-speed trains and bullet trains from Dalian to Yingkou, Qinhuangdao, Tangshan and Tianjin Binhai New Area. The feasibility study report of Tianjin Binhai New Area to Weifang, Shandong Province has been approved by the state and construction has started.
20 17 From July 27th to 29th, the review meeting on the pre-feasibility study of Weifang-Yantai high-speed railway around Bohai Sea was held. The expert group believes that the project is one of the main channels for Yantai and Weihai to communicate with the outside world, an extension of the coastal channel and the Beijing-Shanghai auxiliary channel to Shandong Peninsula, and an important part of planning the horizontal channel in the northern part of Shandong Peninsula.
The speed of Weifang-Yantai railway is 350 kilometers per hour, which is consistent with that of Jingbin high-speed railway and Tianjin Binhai New Area-Weifang high-speed railway. So far, only the pre-feasibility study report of Yantai-Dalian submarine high-speed rail has been approved in the Bohai Rim region.
The completion of the above-mentioned high-speed railway around Bohai Sea is of great significance. At present, it takes more than four hours for Tianjin to take the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train to Qingdao, and less than two hours to take the Bohai Rim line later. It takes more than 5 hours from Tianjin to Yantai, and only about 2 hours from now on. If the submarine high-speed railway from Dalian to Yantai is completed, the time between the two places will be reduced to about half an hour.
Niu Fengrui, a researcher at the Urban Research Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences, believes that there are few economic interactions among provinces and cities in the Bohai Rim region at present, and the completion of the high-speed rail in the Bohai Rim region and the opening of the submarine high-speed rail from Dalian to Yantai in the future are of great significance. Dalian and Yantai may be in the same city. Dalian in Liaoning belongs to the northeast, Yantai and Qingdao in Shandong belong to the east. The distance between the two places is very close, which can realize cross-regional economic interaction.
2065438+February 2006, when the Dalian Municipal Government issued the Implementation Plan for Dalian to Implement the Outline of Cooperation and Development in the Bohai Rim Region, it pointed out that the construction of the cross-sea passage between Dalian and Yantai would be promoted, and the land transportation distance between the two places would be shortened from 1600 km to 107 km, and the time would be shortened to less than 2 hours, thus promoting the integration of Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong Peninsula and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei to form the Bohai Rim.
Yi Cong, deputy dean of the School of Economics of Tianjin University of Finance and Economics and director of the Bohai Economic Research Association, believes that the construction of high-speed rail in the Bohai Rim region is of great significance. Because if we want to realize regional integration, the first thing to do is traffic integration.
"First of all, we must get through traffic, especially through high-speed rail and rapid rail transit, which greatly shortens the time and space distance between cities and promotes the integrated development of industry, investment and social services." Yi Cong said.