This decade, look at China's infrastructure

Infrastructure is an important support for economic and social development and plays a strategic, basic and pioneering role. The decade since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has been a decade in which China has rapidly advanced into a powerful country in infrastructure construction. In the past decade, China has not only accelerated the construction of traditional infrastructure such as transportation, but also made new breakthroughs in the construction of new infrastructure. The achievements reflected in the various statistics are dizzying.

Transportation: people enjoy its travel, things smooth its flow

Under the principle of moderately advanced construction, China has made remarkable achievements in the construction of transportation infrastructure, building the world's largest high-speed railway network, expressway network, and world-class port cluster. Beijing Daxing Airport, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Shanghai Yangshan Port Automation terminal and other landmark projects have witnessed China's progress toward becoming a transportation power.

Open roads in mountains and build Bridges in rivers. In the past ten years, China has increased the length of its railways and highways by 1.1 million kilometers, equivalent to traveling around the equator 27 and a half times. Investment in railway fixed assets exceeded 7 trillion yuan, increasing the mileage by 52,000 kilometers. By the end of 2021, the highway network density will reach 55 kilometers per 100 square kilometers, an increase of 24.6 percent over 2012; 82 transport airports were built or relocated, bringing the total number of airports to 250, with a total designed capacity of more than 1.4 billion passengers. The comprehensive transportation system with huge scale, smooth internal communication and external communication has attracted the world's attention.

When it comes to the "Chinese business card" in the field of transportation, we cannot but mention China's high-speed rail. In 2012, the length of high-speed rail in operation was 9,356 kilometers, but now the number exceeds 40,000 kilometers. Now, passengers can travel from the capital Beijing to 54 cities within half a day by high-speed rail, and "seeing China by high-speed rail" has become a true portrayal of people enjoying a better life.

The development of transportation facilities not only shortens the distance between time and space, but also speeds up the flow of materials and people. From the data in 2021, China has an average of about 69,000 ships entering and leaving ports, 26,800 aircraft taking off and landing, and nearly 300 million pieces of express mail processing every day. During peak hours, more than 10,000 passenger trains run on railways and more than 60 million vehicles run on expressways every day. A large number of major strategic projects have supported a mobile China.

In winning the battle against poverty and serving rural revitalization, transport construction has also played an important role. Data show that the total length of rural roads increased from 3.564 million kilometers at the end of 2011 to 4.466 million kilometers at the end of 2021, a net increase of more than 900,000 kilometers in 10 years. The difficulty of connecting 1,040 townships and 105,000 established villages with hardened roads has been solved, and farmers' "carrying their feet on the bus" has become a reality from a wish. Driven by rural roads, mountain goods go to the city and city goods go to the countryside, and the interaction between urban and rural people, logistics, and capital flow accelerates, driving rural income and farmers to get rich.

China's infrastructure is also going abroad. The China-Laos Railway, the Azerbaijan-Djibouti Railway and the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway were put into operation, the Jakarta-Bandar high-speed Railway was carried out in an orderly manner, and the second phase of equity delivery of the Piraeus Port was completed smoothly, all of which became important achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Energy and power: the guarantee capacity continues to improve

Over the past decade, China has built a number of world-class energy infrastructure projects.

At the lower reaches of the Jinsha River on the border of Sichuan and Yunnan, Baihetan Hydropower Station, with a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, is the largest hydropower project under construction in the world and the most technically difficult. When fully completed and put into operation, the annual average power generation will reach 62.443 billion KWH.

In Xinghua Bay, Fuqing, Fujian Province, 59 100-meter-high white wind turbines stand in the sea. As the world's first high-power offshore wind power prototype test wind farm, Fuqing Xinghua Bay offshore wind Farm has an annual generating capacity of 1.4 billion KWH, which can meet the normal electricity demand of 20,000 families of three.

In January 2021, or in Xinghua Bay, the world's first "Hualong One" nuclear power unit, Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Unit 5, was put into commercial operation, marking that China ranks among the forefront of the world in the field of three-generation nuclear power technology.