On September 26, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) held a press conference to introduce the situation related to infrastructure.
National Development and Reform Commission spokesperson Meng Wei presided over the meeting, and Zheng Jian, director of the National Development and Reform Commission's Department of Infrastructure, Li Mingchuan, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture and Economics, Zhang Zhihua, deputy director of the Department of High Technology, and Song Wen, deputy director of the National Energy Administration's Department of Planning, attended the conference to introduce the relevant information.
Since the 18th Party Congress, China's transportation, energy, water conservancy and new infrastructure development has made historic achievements, the modern comprehensive three-dimensional transportation system, modern energy system to speed up the construction of the overall level of infrastructure to achieve a leapfrog improvement.
According to the report, by the end of 2021, the total mileage of China's comprehensive transportation network exceeded 6 million kilometers, the transmission lines of 220 kilovolts and above 794,000 kilometers, and the total length of fiber-optic cable lines reached 54.81 million kilometers, which are equivalent to 1.3 times, 1.7 times and 3.7 times of those of 10 years ago, respectively. China's high-speed railroads, large-span bridges, ultra-high-voltage power transmission, third-generation nuclear power, mega water conservancy projects, new-generation mobile communications, industrial Internet and other fields have achieved leapfrog development, and construction technologies such as offshore deep-water harbors and large-scale airport projects have stepped into the world's advanced or leading ranks.
In April this year, the Central Finance and Economics Commission held a meeting clearly pointed out that the comprehensive strengthening of infrastructure construction. To be moderately ahead of the layout is conducive to leading industrial development and maintaining national security infrastructure, while grasping the degree of overbuilding.
This conference made clear the follow-up direction of investment in key areas such as transportation, energy, new infrastructure and water conservancy. The transportation sector will focus on networking, complementary network, strong chain, and strengthen the construction of strategic backbone corridors such as out of the border into Tibet, along the coast and along the river, the western land and sea new channel; energy sector will promote a number of hydropower, nuclear power construction of major projects in 2025, conventional hydropower, nuclear power installed capacity reached 380 million, 0.7 billion kilowatts or so.
Infrastructure to form a mega network
China's infrastructure construction in this decade to achieve leapfrog improvement.
According to the release, by the end of 2021, the total mileage of China's comprehensive transportation network exceeded 6 million kilometers, 794,000 kilometers of 220 kilovolts and above transmission lines, the total length of fiber-optic cable lines reached 54.81 million kilometers, and the total capacity of reservoirs reached 903.5 billion cubic meters, forming a mega-sized network, with high-speed rail, highways, power grids, and the size of the 4G network ranking the world's long term The first.
In this decade, China's infrastructure has also formed a wide range of coverage, constantly improving the convenience of production and life. The coverage rate of high-speed railroads to cities with a population of more than one million exceeds 95%, the coverage rate of expressways to cities with a population of more than 200,000 exceeds 98%, civil transportation airports cover about 92% of prefectural-level cities, established villages that are in a position to realize access to hardened roads, broadband, and direct postal services have been realized, the penetration rate of piped water in rural areas has increased to about 84%, and the penetration rate of 4G and 5G users has reached about 87%.
Over the past decade, major landmark projects in the infrastructure sector have continued to emerge. Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Beijing Daxing International Airport, South-to-North Water Diversion East Central Line and other major national projects were completed and put into operation; the world's first quantum secret communication backbone line "Beijing-Shanghai Trunk Line" was built; the world's highest voltage level, the largest transmission capacity, the longest distance of the Jizan ± 1100 kV DC transmission project was successfully put into operation; China's Tianyan, China's Tianye, all-superconducting tokamak device, Shanghai Light Source, etc. to achieve the world's leading.
In this decade, with the east wind of new technology, China's traditional infrastructure and new infrastructure construction accelerated integration. The Beijing-Zhangzhou high-speed railroad has opened a new era of China's intelligent railroads, highways have realized "one network" operation, more than 10 automated terminals across the country have been built and put into operation, the digital waterway basically covers the Yangtze River and the main line of the Xijiang River, and 234 airports have realized the "paperless" convenient travel, and the construction of strong intelligent power grids has been accelerated. The construction of a strong smart grid has been accelerated.
In the past decade, the innovation infrastructure has been accelerated and optimized. China has built a complete system of major scientific and technological infrastructure, the layout of the construction of 77 national major scientific and technological infrastructure, 32 have been completed and running, some of the facilities into the global first square. China has continuously accelerated the construction of innovation capacity, consolidated the status of enterprise innovation main body, in key areas of the layout of the construction of more than 200 national engineering research centers, more than 1,600 national enterprise technology centers and a number of national industrial innovation centers, technology development facilities system continues to improve.
In this decade, infrastructure investment, as an important tool for expanding domestic demand, has played a leading role in stabilizing the economy and promoting growth. Take Beijing Daxing International Airport as an example, the civil aviation part of the investment of more than 80 billion yuan, driving the surrounding transportation and other municipal supporting investment of 300 billion yuan, plus around the airport clustered around the high-end manufacturing industry and modern service industry and other factors of production input, has become a huge engine of regional synergistic development.
This decade, the infrastructure field of public utilities in the continued deepening of market-oriented reform. State railway enterprises have completed their corporate restructuring, the national oil and gas pipeline network company was established, the competitive business of electricity has been liberalized in an orderly manner, and power grid enterprises have become more focused on their main business.
Zheng Jian said, China's infrastructure construction to achieve leapfrog development at the same time, but also gradually formed in line with the actual national situation and the requirements of the times of the development of experience, such as the integration of advantageous resources to promote the overall, people-centered, and adhere to the principle of moderately ahead of the development, and so on.
The next step will be to accelerate the construction of a modernized infrastructure system that is systematically complete, highly efficient and practical, intelligent and green, safe and reliable, so as to lay a solid foundation for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
Investment in these areas still has more room for growth
In April this year, the Central Finance and Economy Commission held a meeting, in recognition of China's overall level of infrastructure to achieve leaps and bounds to improve at the same time, but also pointed out that China's infrastructure with the needs of the country's development and safety and security is still not adapted. Comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction is of great significance to safeguarding national security, unclogging the domestic general circulation, promoting domestic and international double circulation, expanding domestic demand and promoting high-quality development.
Liu Lifeng, a researcher at the Investment Research Institute of the China Academy of Macroeconomic Research, told the 21st Century Business Herald that comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction, in addition to considering the need for short-term stabilization of growth, more based on high-quality development, serving the medium- and long-term needs of the country's major strategies, and is committed to building a systematic, complete, highly efficient and practical, smart and green, safe and reliable modern infrastructure system. Through the construction of networked facilities such as transportation, water conservancy, and electric power, new infrastructure such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and big data can drive the growth of domestic consumption, and also bring more application scenarios and business models. Leading industrial development and national security areas also have investment needs, can promote the relevant industrial layout, "neck" project research and so on.
The conference introduced the focus of subsequent investment in transportation, energy, new infrastructure and other areas.
Zheng Jian said that the next step will be the "14th Five-Year" modern comprehensive transportation system development plan "landing implementation as a grasp, optimize transportation infrastructure. Including strengthening the construction of strategic backbone corridors out of the border into Tibet, along the coast and along the river, the new western land and sea corridors, to build a modern railroad network, highway network, water transport network, aviation network and oil and gas pipeline network; to strengthen the interconnection and integration, and to promote the city clusters and metropolitan area transportation to take the lead in the realization of the modernization; bottleneck and to be through the construction of the road section, hubs, hubs and projects, the city of internal and external traffic connection, the key project of the cross-stream sea crossing It also focuses on the construction of bottleneck roads and roads to be connected, hubs and transportation projects, the connection of transportation inside and outside cities, and key projects across rivers and seas.
Song Wen said, is currently accelerating the "14th Five-Year Plan" planning for major projects completed and put into operation, and actively expand the effective investment space, is expected to "14th Five-Year Plan" period of energy investment in key areas compared to the "13th Five-Year Plan". "Growth of more than 20%, for the expansion of effective investment, to promote the smooth operation of the economy to provide strong impetus.
Carbon peak carbon neutral target put forward, so that the energy sector has become a hot spot for investment. In addition to accelerating wind power, photovoltaic installation, hydropower, nuclear power and other major projects are also speeding up the launch. Lin Boqiang, director of the China Energy Policy Research Institute at Xiamen University, told the 21st Century Business Herald that by 2030 the total installed capacity of wind and solar (000591) reached 1.2 billion kilowatts, which is also insufficient to promote the proportion of non-fossil energy to 25%. China's total energy consumption will still grow by 2030, and the future will require the continued expansion of hydropower, nuclear power, and biomass.
Song Wen said it is necessary to increase the construction of new power infrastructure. The implementation of renewable energy substitution action, steadily promote the desert, Gobi, desert areas as the focus of large-scale wind power photovoltaic base, Southwest hydropower base and power transmission channel construction, renewable energy power transmission ratio of no less than 50% in principle. Promote the construction of a number of major hydropower and nuclear power projects, and the installed capacity of conventional hydropower and nuclear power will reach about 380 million and 0.7 billion kilowatts respectively in 2025.
Song Wen also pointed out that the strengthening of energy security supply infrastructure. Accelerate to improve the inter-network power interoperability, and by 2025, the capacity of west-east power transmission will reach more than 360 million kilowatts. Enhance the oil and gas supply capacity, improve the crude oil and refined oil products long-distance pipeline network system, accelerate the construction of natural gas pipeline network and interconnection, expand the west-east gas transmission, Sichuan gas transmission and other trunk corridors and the north-south liaison line, in 2025, the national scale of oil and gas pipeline network to reach about 210,000 kilometers. Construction of Shanxi, west of Mongolia, east of Mongolia, north of Shaanxi, Xinjiang, five major coal supply and security bases, solid coal and coal power pocket security foundation.
New infrastructure construction prospects are good
New infrastructure construction is also full of imagination, and its connotation will continue to expand with the technological breakthroughs and demand upgrade.
According to reports, the "East Counts, West Counts" project launched in February this year has begun to bear fruit. At present, eight national arithmetic hub node construction program have entered the deepening stage of implementation, the starting area of the new data center projects reached more than 60, the scale of the new data center more than 1.1 million standard racks, the total investment in the project more than 400 billion yuan, arithmetic agglomeration effect initially appeared.
Zhang Zhihua said that the new infrastructure construction, one end is connected to the expansion of domestic demand and improve people's livelihood, one end is connected to technological innovation and industrial development, for optimizing the investment structure, to high-quality supply to create new demand, has an important practical significance. The "14th Five-Year Plan" and even a longer period of time in the future, China's new infrastructure construction investment prospects continue to be good.
Zhang Zhihua said the future will increase efforts to support the construction of new infrastructure. Including, guiding telecom operators to coordinate the layout of 5G and fiber optic network construction; improving the layout of the national arithmetic network, promoting regional synergism and intensive **** construction; using medium and long-term loans, local government special bonds, policy development financial instruments, etc., to increase support for the construction of new infrastructure, enhance the enthusiasm of social capital to participate in the investment; the continued implementation of the small and medium-sized cities in the western and central regions of the infrastructure network improvement project, support for 5G, artificial intelligence, and the development of new infrastructure construction. The project supports the integration of 5G, artificial intelligence, big data and other new technologies into livelihood facilities to bridge the digital divide; accelerates the research and development of key core technologies in key areas, and enhances the resilience of the industrial chain supply chain.