Chapter 936 Southbound Passage

The leaders came to Kunshi this time not only to inspect Dianchi Lake and Kunshi.

But to inspect the entire southwest.

This month, the superiors sent workers to various provinces to conduct inspections, intending to find out the bottom line.

After all, this year is the final year of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan", which is of extraordinary significance.

The leaders personally led a team to inspect the entire southwest, find out the veins of the southwest, and prepare for the "Ninth Five-Year Plan".

The first stop was to choose the important town of "Kunshi" in the southwest.

There are three major towns in the entire southwest, namely Rongcheng, Shancheng and Kunshi. Although Longyuan is also rising rapidly, it is not as good as Rongcheng, Shancheng and Kunshi.

Rongcheng has always been the core area of ​​the southwest. In terms of national positioning, it is a megacity, the core city of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle, an important central city in the western part of China, an important national high-tech industrial base, a trade and logistics center and a comprehensive transportation hub.

In terms of national positioning, Shancheng is a national central city, a megacity, an economic center, a financial center and an innovation center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is a center of politics, culture, science and technology, education, art, etc. It is to be built into an international metropolis. Shancheng is a comprehensive transportation hub of water, land and air in the central and western regions. At present, the time is ripe for the restoration of the central municipality of Shancheng, and it is a matter of time for Shancheng to break away from Sichuan and Shu and become independent.

Kunming City, the central city of the central Yunnan urban agglomeration and one of the important central cities in the western region, has a unique location of "connecting Guizhou and Guangxi to the coast in the east, entering the Central Plains through Sichuan and Chongqing in the north, going south to Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia, and connecting Myanmar to India and Pakistan in the west". It is located at the intersection of the North-South International Channel and the third East-West Eurasian Continental Bridge starting from Pengcheng. It is a gateway city for China to open up to Southeast Asia and South Asia. It is located at the intersection of the ASEAN "10+1" Free Trade Zone Economic Circle, the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Circle, and the Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Economic Cooperation Circle.

With Panshan Group as the core, the southwest region has developed an entire industrial cluster, and all the outbound channels have been opened. It is only a matter of time before railways and shipping are opened. The development potential of the entire southwest region is no less than that of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta.

The most important thing is that Panshan Group has money, and the southwest region generally has money, so there is no need for the central government to invest too much money.

The annual income from the southwest region to East China and South China alone is no less than 200 billion yuan.

What we need to help the southwest now is further integration and relevant policy support.

In the future, China will further develop the central, western and northeastern regions, and make economic development as balanced and reasonable as possible.

In the meeting room of Panshan Group, Liu Tao personally introduced the current construction of external channels.

"The China-Myanmar Railway has been fully connected, and our goods can be imported and exported directly along the China-Myanmar Railway." Liu Tao pointed to a railway artery in the west, that is, the China-Myanmar Railway, which directly connects the southwest of China to the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean, and connects to the port of Panshan Group here. This port has been leased by Panshan Group for 99 years and is an important overseas support base.

This railway is the earliest and most elaborate railway built by Panshan Group in Southeast Asia. For this railway, Panshan Group invested countless time, energy, material and financial resources, united all forces along the line, and supported a group of Chinese families, and finally the whole line is now connected.

Only Liu Tao knows the energy and hard work put in here.

"The China-Thailand Railway is expected to be open to traffic in another two years!" Liu Tao pointed to a large artery in the middle. The China-Thailand Railway was not agreed until a few years ago. It starts from Vientiane Station, the core hub of the China-Laos-Cambodia Railway, and connects to Bangkok. It is 610 kilometers long and ends at Bangkok Port, the largest port in Thailand. This line allows goods from the southwest region to be transported directly to Bangkok Port, and then shipped through the Kra Strait to be exported to the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

"The China-Laos-Cambodia Railway has been opened to traffic. Now we plan to carry out technical transformation of the Laos-Cambodia section, and the train speed will be increased to 120 kilometers per hour by 2000." Liu Tao pointed to the China-Laos-Cambodia Railway, which was officially opened to traffic in 1990. In order to build this artery as soon as possible, the construction standard of this railway is not high, and it is designed according to 60 kilometers per hour.

This railway is to solve the problem of whether there is a problem or not. When the traffic is improved and the economy along the line develops, the railway will be transformed.

As for the land along the railway, enough land has been reserved as early as the construction.

"Kunlong Railway has been opened to traffic. The current train speed is 150 kilometers per hour. It goes directly from Kun City to Longyuan City and arrives at Longyuan Port." Liu Tao introduced these four important road transportation hubs.

These four railways are all designed to open up the road channel from the southwest to Nanyang and speed up personnel exchanges and material transportation.

Except for the China-Thailand Railway, which will not be completed until two years later, all others are completed.

"For the Red River shipping, the middle and upper reaches can reach the channel standard for 500-ton ships, and the lower reaches can reach the channel standard for 2,000-ton ships. At present, all the ports along the city have been built." This is the inland waterway shipping within Yunnan Province. The construction speed and efficiency are not comparable to those of foreign projects.

China has the advantage of concentrating its efforts on major projects, and it has never been vague in such major projects.

In just a few years, this large area has fully realized water supply, power supply, communication, and Internet access, and built national highways, expressways, provincial highways, county roads, and rural roads, connecting various towns, county towns, and cities.

In order to improve the navigation conditions of the entire Red River, large reservoirs and hydropower stations have been built to achieve inland navigation through locks or ship lifts, and water and electricity are supplied to a large area.

The total cargo throughput of the ports along the inland river is tens of millions of tons, and the transportation cost is still very low, which drives the economic development along the entire shipping section.

"The first phase of the Mekong River shipping project has been completed, and the second phase will be completed in a few years. The joint law enforcement team conducts river patrols and law enforcement regularly!" Liu Tao introduced the Mekong River. The upper reaches are called Canglan River, and the middle and lower reaches are called Mekong River. The name of the water system has not changed.

The joint law enforcement team was signed by the four countries after the launch of the Mekong River shipping project. The joint law enforcement team was established to patrol the entire Mekong River and crack down on criminals.

The Mekong River Joint Law Enforcement Team has a total of 3,000 people and 50 patrol law enforcement boats to maintain the shipping safety of the entire Mekong River.

"The first phase of the Chao Phraya River project was just completed this year, the second phase is expected to be completed by the millennium, and the third phase will be completed by 2010!" Liu Tao introduced the Chao Phraya River.

The first phase of the Chao Phraya River project mainly involves dredging along the river, building large reservoirs and hydropower stations, building ports along the river, and digging artificial canals connecting the Chao Phraya River and the Mekong River. This is to solve the problem of whether there is a problem.

The second phase of the project is to dredge the waterway deeper and wider, improve the waterway conditions, so that 1,000-ton ships can pass through.

The third phase of the project is to continue to improve the navigation conditions on the basis of the second phase of the project, so that 2,000-ton ships can pass through the entire section.

As for the Salween River and the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar, they have been unable to get through the forces along the river, so naturally there is no talk of starting construction.