Chapter 1232 Game
The Pinglu Canal and the Xianggui Canal are not the only ones that are being planned and constructed nationwide.
There are also the Ganyue Canal, the Jianghuai Grand Canal, the Songliao Canal, the Zhengxiang Canal, the Yellow Sea Canal, the Jianghan Canal + the Jinghan Canal, the Hongqi River Project, the Shanghai-Xinjiang Grand Canal, and so on.
Everyone wants to build a Grand Canal to facilitate transportation!
In recent years, the Red River Shipping Project, the Yalu River Shipping Project, and the Tumen River Shipping Project in China have made all provinces jealous.
The Red River Shipping Project is related to the strategic planning of the Red River Delta. The Yalu River Shipping Project and the Tumen River Shipping Project are related to the strategy of revitalizing the Northeast and the strategy of economic integration in Northeast Asia.
However, there is no province or region that does not want to carry out the Grand Canal Project.
The Gan-Yue Grand Canal connects the Ganjiang River and the Beijiang River. It starts from Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province in the north and goes up the Ganjiang River, passes through Taojiang, crosses the watershed and enters the Zhenshui River in Guangdong Province, and goes along the Beijiang River to Yangcheng to the sea. It is 1,275 kilometers long and passes through 27 counties and cities in the two provinces. It connects the two major water systems of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. It connects the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in the north through the Yangtze River and can reach Beijing. It is 3,187 kilometers long and is planned as a third-level trunk waterway.
Economically speaking, the Gan-Yue Canal can promote the development of poor areas, and it has more benefits than disadvantages for Gan and Guangdong provinces. The governments of both provinces are actively promoting it. However, there are many objections to this project. First, the investment is about 80 billion yuan, which is a relatively large investment. Second, the canal will cause the water source of the Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone in Gan Province to flow out, which is more likely to damage the ecological environment and involve cross-provincial ecological compensation.
Even in Jiangxi Province, which is eager to build a golden waterway, academics and officials have doubts about the various problems that may arise from opening the Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal. After all, the Poyang Lake water system covers 96% of the entire Jiangxi Province.
In this regard, the Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal is still in the preliminary research stage, and it may not be launched in the 11th or even the 12th Five-Year Plan.
The Jianghuai Grand Canal is a concept of introducing water from the Yangtze River into the Huaihe River and building a new thousand-mile Grand Canal. The intention is to build the Jianghuai Grand Canal so that it can accommodate 2,000-3,000-ton cargo ships as the main connection point for north-south water transportation. The Jianghuai Grand Canal is mainly urgently needed by Anhui Province, which wants to connect the Huaihe River system and the Yangtze River system from north to south by building an artificial Grand Canal, so that the economies of the north and south can be integrated and developed, and the economic development of northern Anhui can be promoted.
This project has been brewing for many years, but it has not been approved so far. It is expected to be included in the 12th Five-Year Plan.
Songliao Canal is a core project of the "Northeast Asia International Water Transport Corridor" that connects Bohai Sea in Yingkou in the south and East Tatar Strait in Russia in the north. It is mainly used for water diversion, taking into account shipping, and can divert floodwaters in both directions. After the Northeast Asia Summit, this project was determined to be included in the 11th Five-Year Plan.
Zhengxiang Canal connects Zhengzhou to Xiangyang, connecting the Yellow River and the Yangtze River system.
Each canal project has an investment of at least 30 to 40 billion yuan, and as much as hundreds of billions of yuan.
They are all important, but there are also priorities.
Liu Tao knows that all projects are good projects, but it does not mean that they should be rushed into, but should be carried out in stages.
Emperor Yang of Sui excavated the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was a sin in the present but a merit for the future. It directly ruined the Sui Dynasty.
The past is a lesson for the future.
The next morning, the temporary stage built on the scene, the construction unit, the supervision unit, the design unit, the Pinglu Canal Command and other participating units were all neatly arranged.
All leaders of Guangxi Province attended the meeting.
The groundbreaking ceremony was grand.
Liu Tao attended the meeting in person and spoke highly of the Pinglu Canal project. He also stressed that the project should ensure quality and quantity, and that there should be zero tolerance for quality issues.
The news of the start of the Pinglu Canal project was reported soon, which caused a heated discussion. After all, many people still don't understand why such a large amount of money was spent to invest in building a canal.
Some foreign environmental protection organizations and animal organizations made all kinds of weird noises.
They focused on the Pinglu Canal, which would damage the ecological environment and affect animals.
Naturally, no one would take such weird noises to heart. Since it has been included in the 11th Five-Year Plan, the Pinglu Canal will continue to advance.
After attending the groundbreaking ceremony, Liu Tao came to a sea area in the Xiangjiang River. The earthwork excavation of the Pinglu Canal and the silt dredged from the river will eventually be transported here to reclaim land from the sea.
The earthwork excavation of the Pinglu Canal alone will reach 350 million cubic meters. Naturally, so much earthwork cannot be piled up at will.
These earth and rocks will be transported to Hong Kong by sea, and a 40 square kilometer land reclamation area will be formed here.
And this piece of land is entirely controlled by the Hong Kong Land Group.
The entire land reclamation area is located in the east of Hong Kong. Through this land reclamation project, the other four islands will be connected to form a piece of land of 50 square kilometers.
The land reclamation in this area was finalized in the late 1990s and has finally started construction now.
This will also be the last land reclamation project in Hong Kong. Although land reclamation in other places has been constantly mentioned, there has always been great controversy and it has not been passed.
Liu Tao came to Hong Kong this time mainly to attend the meeting.
After so many years of preparation, the first Shenzhen-Hong Kong Integration Summit was finally held in Hong Kong.
Officials, academics, business circles and other representatives from Hong Kong and Pengcheng attended the summit, and leaders from Guangdong Province also attended the meeting.
At the opening ceremony, Liu Tao attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He said that Hong Kong and Pengcheng are adjacent to each other, have the same culture, and highly complementary industries. It is the general trend to promote the integration of the two places.
From its establishment to now, Pengcheng has transformed from a small village into a modern metropolis in just over 20 years. It is one of the most developed cities in the mainland.
The total area of Pengcheng is about 2,000 square kilometers, the built-up area is 920 square kilometers, and the urbanization rate is 100%. It is the first fully urbanized city in China.
Pengcheng and Hong Kong The area of Hong Kong is about half of that of Shanghai.
Area, from a certain perspective, means development potential.
The ceilings of Pengcheng and Hong Kong are very obvious, and they are visible now.
In the future, when Pengcheng and Hong Kong reach a bottleneck, they must upgrade their industries and change their economic structures.
Even now, low-end manufacturing industries in Pengcheng have begun to move out.
After all, the labor cost of Pengcheng is firmly in the forefront of the country, and low-end manufacturing industries are most sensitive to labor costs.
In other words, manufacturing industries are very sensitive to costs.
Judging from the trajectory of industrial migration, it is often transferred to places with low labor costs.
Of course, there is a prerequisite, that is, there must be high-quality labor with a certain level of education, a peaceful development environment, and a relatively complete preliminary industry.
This is why, so far, there are so few countries that have truly achieved industrialization. (End of this chapter)
