An international comprehensive transportation hub city is a key hub node in the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network.
In recent years, Nanjing has accelerated the construction of a modernized comprehensive transportation system, with its hub status becoming more prominent and its hub capacity constantly improved, providing strong support for enhancing the city's competitiveness and promoting high-quality development.
Recently, the Nanjing Municipal People's Government, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation and the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Special Plan for the Development of Nanjing International Comprehensive Transportation Hub (2024-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Special Plan"), which further defines the goals and paths of Nanjing's urban transportation construction and development. (hereinafter referred to as the "Special Plan"), further defining the objectives and path of Nanjing's urban transportation construction.
Today, a press conference was held at the Nanjing Press Conference Hall.Issued by the Municipal Bureau of Transportation, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, and the Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources to explain the Special Plan for the Development of Nanjing International Comprehensive Transportation Hub (2024-2035) and answer reporters' questions.
In February 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of the National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Plan, which for the first time gave Nanjing the position of an international comprehensive transportation hub city.
In September 2024, the Nanjing Territorial Spatial Master Plan (2021-2035) was approved by the State Council, generally defining Nanjing as an "international comprehensive transportation hub city".
In order to implement the decision and deployment of the State Council to accelerate the construction of Nanjing as an international comprehensive transportation hub city, and also to further enhance the primacy of Nanjing and its position as a strategic link in the domestic and international double cycle.The Municipal Transportation Bureau has prepared the Special Plan for the Development of Nanjing International Comprehensive Transportation Hub (2024-2035).Considered and approved by the executive meeting of Nanjing Municipal People's Government, on February 14, it was jointly issued by Nanjing Municipal People's Government, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation and Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission.
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The plan is oriented to high comprehensive efficiency, excellent system process and low logistics cost, focusing on efforts to strengthen the function of international hub, expand the strategic hinterland of the hub and enhance the ability of global resource allocation, and proposes that by 2035, relying on the leading international aviation hub, shipping and logistics center, and international railroad hub in China, Nanjing will fully complete the air, land and sea transportation network that links to the world, radiates across the country, and is shared by the region, and take the multi-modal transportation as the symbol of the integrated transportation hub service system, Multi-station linkage as the symbol of the comprehensive transportation hub service system, and become an international comprehensive transportation hub city with a high degree of factor agglomeration, strong regional radiation capability and global influence.
character used in Taiwan as a substitute for a real name (like "X" in English) To build a strategic dual-cycle pivot point facing the Asia-Pacific and integrating into the world.By 2035, 20 hours of air connectivity between Suzhou and Anhui provinces 95% or more important trade countries and regions, port container throughput of 6.3 million TEU, of which foreign trade container throughput of more than 3 million TEU.
○ Built the sea-river-river, public-railway-water transit center of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.By 2035, the function of river and sea transshipment hubs will be significantly improved, the proportion of water-to-water transshipment of containers will reach 46%, the boutique intermodal routes of iron and water, sea and river, and public railway will cover the major freight hubs across the country, the operation efficiency of the hubs will be significantly improved, the waiting time for goods will be further reduced, and the multimodal transportation changeover will take no more than one hour.
○Built the regional radiation center of the Yangtze River Delta International Hub Cluster.With the core cities in the Yangtze River Delta to build "air-ground integrated" travel network, the metropolitan area to achieve 0.5-1 hour intercity railroad, high speed road "double fast" commuting, Lukou Airport air-rail intermodal transport network 1 hour coverage of the Nanjing metropolitan area The air-rail transportation network of Lukou Airport covers the Nanjing metropolitan area in 1 hour and basically covers the cities in Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province in 2 hours.
○Built an innovation and integration center that promotes the development of new quality productivity through a hub.The level of intelligent application of the whole process of the hub reaches 100%, and new industries, new modes and new dynamics have become the characteristics of the Nanjing hub. The degree of hub resource agglomeration is leading the country, the development of low-altitude economy ranks steadily in the first square in the country, and the average annual growth rate of GDP in the hub economic zone is higher than that of the city by 2 percentage points.
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The planning report is divided into five chapters with a total of about 18,000 words, making systematic planning and overall deployment for the future development of Nanjing's international comprehensive transportation hub, and proposing seven key tasks for the development of Nanjing's international comprehensive transportation hub:
○Creating a regional gateway international aviation hub.Taking the construction of the third phase of Lukou International Airport as a starting point, Nanjing Lukou Airport will be strengthened with global links and intercontinental connectivity to create a complex international aviation hub with a gateway to the Asia-Pacific region and global connections, with a focus on becoming a core hub for international cargo and mail. In due course, the civil function of Luhe Ma'an Airport will be activated.
○Enhancement of the international functions of shipping and logistics centers.To create a hub layout of "two sides of a river, hub-led, intelligent linkage", to promote the optimization of the spatial layout of shipping and logistics elements, and to enhance the potential of regional shipping and logistics center. Focus on strengthening the status of the port of departure of the near-ocean routes, to build the Shanghai International Shipping Center and the central and western regions of the gateway hub of river and sea transit, to create an international multi-functional integrated river and sea transit main hub port. Relying on the advantages of sea-river-river and public-railway-water intermodal transportation, the regional shipping and logistics center of Nanjing will expand its hinterland.
○Continuously improve the quality and efficiency of international liner operations.Taking Yaohua Gate and Longtan Railway Logistics Base as the important pivot points of international liner trains, combining with the optimization and adjustment of Nanjing Railway Hub, promoting the international liner trains in Longtan Port Area at the right time, and constructing an important node of international logistics that connects the Land Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road.
○Consolidate the position of international postal express hub.Focusing on the implementation of the China Post International Cargo and Mail Comprehensive Core Port Project, it promotes the clustering of core elements of postal express delivery and gradually builds a postal independent international aviation network.
○Promote the integration of customs clearance facilitation at ports.Continuously promote the construction of airport ports, port ports and railroad ports, actively strive for the qualification of relevant ports, and enhance the level of customs clearance facilitation at ports.
○Promote the sharing of hub information and the linking of multiple ports.It will focus on enhancing the level of information sharing among hubs, exploring the establishment of a multi-modal big data base exchange network and a cross-sectoral information-sharing mechanism, and effectively integrating information resources from ports and shipping, railroad yards and stations, airports, logistics parks and customs.
○Strengthening the hub economy to attract industrial agglomeration.Strengthening hub-driven industrial support, strengthening the planning and construction of hub economic zones and coordination, promoting the staggered integrated development of hub economic zones, and creating a hub economic development highland with a synergistic industrial chain supply chain and a large scale of economic cycle operation.
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○Highlighting "provincial and municipal synergy".The plan was jointly prepared and issued by the province and the city, and the key tasks have repeatedly emphasized the role of the provincial platform in promoting the integration and coordination of resources within the province, and actively seeking more international and domestic resources for the construction of Nanjing's international comprehensive transportation hub, which signifies that the province and the city will further coalesce strong synergies to accelerate the construction of Nanjing's international comprehensive transportation hub.
Highlighting "cross-sectoral synergy".The key tasks involve various departments such as transportation, development and reform, planning and resources, commerce, finance, customs, maritime affairs, postal services, etc., and all relevant departments are required to play their respective roles and strengthen their collaboration to ensure that the objectives and tasks are advanced in an orderly manner.
:: Highlighting "cross-regional synergy".It is proposed to strengthen the division of labor and collaboration with Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities to jointly build and share a world-class comprehensive transportation hub cluster in the Yangtze River Delta, and to support the enhancement of the international competitiveness of the hub cluster in the Yangtze River Delta; and to strengthen cooperation and sharing with member cities of the Nanjing Metropolitan Area for mutual benefit, so as to jointly push forward the construction of an international comprehensive transportation hub city.
The next step, the Municipal Bureau of Transportation will continue to implement the work of the municipal government's deployment, comprehensively do a good job in the construction of the Nanjing International Comprehensive Transportation Hub work, for the construction of the "strong, rich, beautiful and high" new Nanjing and socialist modernization of the city to provide strong support. There are also these issues that we care about together to see ▽In ➤2021, Nanjing was first given the positioning of an international comprehensive transportation hub. After four years, how is the construction of Nanjing's international comprehensive transportation hub progressing? What kind of development foundation does it have for future development?
Luo Rui, member of the party group and deputy director of the Municipal Transportation Bureau:In recent years, Nanjing's position as an international comprehensive transportation hub has become more and more prominent, and its airports, seaports and railroad ports all have a better foundation for development.
First, the airport hub to speed up the link to the world. 2024, Lukou Airport international cargo and mail throughput of 75,000 tons, a record high; Nanjing border checkpoints to check a total of 2.628 million passengers entering and leaving the country, of which more than 311,000 foreign travelers, year-on-year growth of 82.7%, 65.8%, the data are nearly five years of new highs. As one of the first national historical and cultural cities and one of the first cities in the country to apply the transit visa-free policy, inbound tourism in Nanjing has moved to new heights, with the number of inbound overnight tourists received in Nanjing increasing by 63% year-on-year in 2024.
Secondly, the status of seaport hub is constantly solid. 2024, "Nanjing Port Master Plan (2024-2035)" was jointly approved by the Ministry of Transportation and the provincial government, which made up for the blankness of Nanjing port planning in the past 20 years since the promulgation of the Port Law; "Special Plan for the Development of Nanjing Regional Shipping and Logistics Center (2024-2035)" was jointly approved by the municipal government, the Provincial Department of Transportation, and the Provincial Development and Reform Commission. The Special Plan for the Development of Nanjing Regional Shipping and Logistics Center (2024-2035) was jointly approved by the municipal government, Provincial Department of Transportation, and Provincial Development and Reform Commission. With the 12.5-meter deep water channel below Nanjing of the Yangtze River opened, Nanjing Port 50,000-ton ship can navigate all year round. In 2024, the 11.8-meter draught of the Chinese bulk carrier Rongda Shanghai Wheel was successfully berthed, which set a new record for the largest draught of the ships entering the port since the opening of the port of Nanjing. The total number of international routes reaches 15, directly to Japan and Korea, Southeast Asia, India and Pakistan, the Far East, South America, etc. In 2024, the ocean routes will realize a new breakthrough, with the addition of new international ocean routes to South America and the Far East. The opening of foreign trade domestic feeder routes to Shanghai Yangshan and Zhejiang Ningbo realizes seamless connection with the three major international ocean trunk routes in Europe, the United States and the Mediterranean Sea, and the scale of the foreign trade domestic feeder route network will remain the first along the river for a long time.
Thirdly, the steady development of the railroad international liner. Stable operation of 8 lines of China-European trains, covering far Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia and other 12 countries, access to more than 70 cities. 2024, Nanjing China-European train 389 columns, an increase of 5%, hitting a new record high; one after another, new lines from Nanjing to Baku, Azerbaijan, and from Nanjing to Istanbul, Turkey, and at the same time, new ports of entry Tongjiang, "four directions and seven ports" channel layout has basically formed. The channel layout of "four directions and seven ports" has basically been formed. From a comprehensive point of view, Nanjing international comprehensive transportation hub has a better foundation for development, but there are still international links to be further improved, the hub resource allocation capacity needs to be strengthened and other shortcomings. At the next stage, we will adhere to the problem-oriented approach to enhance Nanjing's organizational support role in international personnel exchanges, logistics transit and distribution, global resource allocation and other service functions.➤ What are Nanjing's considerations for actively seeking national support and gathering the joint efforts of provincial and municipal departments to promote the construction of an international comprehensive transportation hub city?
Zhu Yuan, Director of Infrastructure Development Department, Municipal Development and Reform Commission:The construction of Nanjing as an international comprehensive transportation hub cannot be separated from the national support and the concerted promotion of the province and the city. The plan was issued jointly by the three units, aiming to fully converge the strength of the provincial and municipal departments to build an international comprehensive transportation hub. Based on the functions of our committee, the next stage will be from the following three aspects:
First, to seize the national policy window period to expand effective investment, and actively seek ultra-long-term special national bonds and other national-level policy support for the construction of the hub to provide a strong guarantee.
Secondly, we will strengthen the project construction efforts. Recently, the Nanjing 2025 Government Investment Plan has been released, and 61 projects have been arranged in the field of comprehensive transportation, with an annual planned investment of 41.459 billion yuan. These include projects to accelerate the North Yanjiang High-speed Railway, Ninghuai Intercity Railway, Ningwu Railway Expansion and Reconstruction Project, and Shangyuanmen River Crossing. Subsequently, we will further strengthen the integration and coordination, and conduct in-depth study and timely resolution of specific problems arising in the promotion process.
Thirdly, we will actively promote the development of related industries. Accelerate the layout of new tracks of low-altitude industry, attract some enterprises to settle down, and cultivate and grow the low-altitude economic industry chain; at the same time, vigorously promote the construction of major industrial projects in conjunction with various departments, and strive for more large-volume and high-quality projects to land in Nanjing, so as to provide support for promoting the development of an international comprehensive transportation hub city.
In the Nanjing Territorial Spatial Master Plan approved by the State Council in 2024, the urban nature of Nanjing as an "international comprehensive transportation hub city" is clearly defined. How does the latest special plan connect with the Nanjing Territorial Spatial Master Plan?
Ping Li, Director of Municipal Affairs, City Planning and Resource Department:The Nanjing Territorial Spatial Master Plan (2021-2035) is the first provincial capital city territorial spatial master plan approved by the State Council, and for the first time, the plan includes "international comprehensive transportation hub city" in the nature of the city, which is not only an upgrade of Nanjing's strategic positioning at the national level, but also a new requirement for cross-sectoral collaboration in promoting the plan's implementation. This is not only an upgrade of Nanjing's strategic positioning at the national level, but also a new requirement for cross-sectoral collaboration in promoting the implementation of the plan. Focusing on the goal of building an international comprehensive transportation hub city, the Land Space Master Plan proposes the planning and construction of an international aviation hub, a national railroad hub and a regional shipping and logistics center, as well as the realization of regional transportation integration and the integrated development of the Nanjing Metropolitan Area. During the preparation of the Nanjing International Comprehensive Transportation Hub Development Special Plan, the transportation development objectives and strategies of the Territorial Spatial Master Plan were fully implemented, and the layout of the city's comprehensive transportation hubs determined by the Master Plan was deepened and refined, with the city's three-tier passenger transportation hub system of "5+9+14" as well as It has laid out a three-level passenger transportation hub system of "5+9+14" and a four-level freight transportation hub system of "3+9+10+N". The implementation of the special plan will also play an important role in shaping the spatial pattern of the country, especially the planning and construction of hub economic zones and coordination, and the hub economic zones such as airside, port and high-speed rail will fully integrate the functions of the transportation hub and the city, and stagger the development of one to create a synergistic industrial chain and supply chain, and a large-scale hub economic development and operation of the economic cycle.
At present, the Bureau is accelerating the preparation of the first edition of Nanjing's comprehensive transportation plan for land space, and the districts are also accelerating the preparation of land space zoning plans, which will further deepen the promotion of synergistic development of comprehensive transportation hubs and urban space and industries, implement the guarantee of spatial elements, and jointly contribute to the construction of Nanjing as an international comprehensive transportation hub city.
➤ What are the current challenges facing the opening of international passenger routes at Nanjing Lukou Airport? What are the next steps to deal with them?
Luo Rui, member of the party group and deputy director of the Municipal Transportation Bureau:The development of international passenger aviation is closely related to the international business and humanistic exchanges of the general public. As an important carrier for the development of a hub city, accelerating the enhancement of the hub capacity of Nanjing Lukou Airport has a non-negligible role to play in improving the city's international influence. As mentioned in our previous introduction, the demand for international passenger and cargo transportation in Nanjing remains strong; in recent years, we have also been accelerating the preliminary work for Phase III of Lukou Airport, and are now actively promoting the approval of the pre-feasibility study report of Phase III of the Lukou Airport project, with a view to realizing the commencement of construction at an early date. However, Nanjing Lukou Airport is also facing many constraints in the resumption of international routes. For example, in 2024, the state issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction of International Aviation Hubs", which made it more difficult to strive for international passenger routes to regional aviation hubs such as Nanjing Lukou Airport. For example, the recovery rate of routes between overseas carriers and China is generally low, which also has a considerable impact on the recovery of routes to Nanjing Lukou Airport.
In the plan, we have also put forward a series of measures to cope with the new development situation: on the one hand, Nanjing is a key node connecting the Asia-Pacific region and other international air transportation corridors. We will continue to "promote the advantages", focusing on enhancing the international function of Lukou Airport for Japan and South Korea and other specific regions, and strengthen the competitiveness of air routes through frequency encryption and time optimization, so as to ensure the convenience of travel for the general public and friends, and to attract passengers from the central and western regions of the country to transit out of the country through Nanjing.
On the other hand, in the face of the challenge of opening up long-haul international routes, we will actively strengthen the connection with important global international aviation hubs such as Dubai and Istanbul, as well as strengthen the connection with the top ten domestic international aviation hubs such as Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Urumqi, in order to rapidly enhance Nanjing's international accessibility through international connecting flights. At the same time, we will pay close attention to the development trend of international large-scale airline companies, the situation of China-US air traffic rights negotiations and other changes in the external situation, and seize the opportunity to resume routes such as Frankfurt and Los Angeles in due course. In addition, we will work with the relevant provincial departments to continue to report to the national level to strive for breakthroughs in the positioning of aviation hubs, air traffic rights, moments and other key elements.
