Monday, October 29, 2018 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION 8 GROUNDBREAKING OF THE BAY AREA 9 Passenger forecast of the HK section of the Dongjiang River Guangzhou-Shenzhen-HK Express Rail Link Unit: thousand Tonghu town Dongjiang water supply route DONGGUAN 18.6 of Hong Kong’s fresh Taiyuan Pumping Station ply capacity of the s 73% Long Haul ions ter sup ystem water was imported from Lianhu Pumping Station tat Wa Changping Service e s 24.23 Dongjiang River over the th Unit: 100 million m³ at past 10 years. town Qiling Pumping Station ing pp to 90.6 s s in T Shuttle Service ra 406 op f t 17.43 10 Jinhu Pumping Station r o 443 9.24 n e uc Fenggang town b 508 le um a N r p 8.82 ow er SHENZHEN 520 8.63 p Unit: billion kWh l 8.73 an 653 t u Shenzhen Reservoir n i Highlights of Humen bridge 8.69 ts o 2.88 n The bridge is one of the largest-scale highway bridges in C Muk Wu Pumping Station Humen Pearl River Bridge is over its capacity in h in China, and can handle as many as 120,000 cars a day. It 2018 during the Spring Festival travel rush 0.68 8.46 e s shortens the distance between two sides of the Pearl River by Unit: cars per day 1978 1987 e 1965 1994 2003 m Beijing a HONG KONG 120 km and the commuting time by 20 minutes. 8.41 in South la Hangzhou n The bridge is the fi rst large-scale suspension bridge East d 2 130,000 Wat 8.18 0 designed by Chinese. It has a main span of 888 meters, Nanjing hen er 1 nz Su 7 South e p , the longest of such spans in China when it was completed h p Yangjiang, Unit 1 b l y -S y (now the second longest). The vertical clearance below the g S Tianwan, Unit 2 p Shanghai eed rai n o sp lwa y 8.11 - a s w Where is power from the Daya Hongqiao h y i bridge is 60 meters, allowing 100,000-ton vessels to ig j t e e H g Daya Bay, Unit 1 r m Bay Nuclear Power Plant sent? pass through. n g Guangzhou o South Ningde, Unit 2 e 118,400 D n Guangdong 8.08 e r lea Tianwan, Unit 1 a Impact of Humen bridge on regional economy Nuc r Po t y w e a e d B r Ningde, Unit 3 Panyu district of Guangzhou a P 30% y la Number of industrial enterprises increased a n 8.01 2018 D t Ling Ao, Unit 4 Hong Kong by 78% and the gross industrial output 107,500 increased by 158% during the fi rst decade e 70% Hum n Pe Fangjiashan, Unit 1 2017 ar after the bridge was open to tra c. l R Ling Ao, Unit 2 iv e r B Ling Ao, Unit 3 Nansha district of Guangzhou 2016 r HK i d Fortune Global 500 companies opened o ces in g Equipping Annual overseas passenger growth Guangzhou25.6% 36 e Nansha during the fi rst decade after the bridge was for three major PRD airports 17,500 Shenzhen open to tra c. Three major airports in the During the initial Bay Area were among the top 40 operation Highway kilometers in Guangdong 9.1% busiest airports in 2017 2013 Bay’s city of cities by passenger tra c Unit: million 6.1% irpo Top 5 Chinese mainland By MIRIAM ZHANG in Hong Kong tion, energy resources, and more thanks to the A rt provinces in terms of [email protected] economic reform that began in 1978. 46 Shenzhen 11,000 Among the most notable achievements contrib- 28.1% total highway kilometers 2020 he Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Great- uting to the Bay Area’s economic growth and peo- Highway er Bay Area is a term that prophesies ple-to-people exchanges were the establishment in 2017 2014 15.4% Guangzhou the future of millions of people living of a national high-speed railway and a regional 66 2015 in an 11-city cluster in South China. But, intercity railway. 5.7% 7,018 itT wasn’t always that way, at least, not before the And, with the mega Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao nation’s reform and opening-up policy started 40 Bridge having gone into operation on Wednesday, 73 Hong Kong years ago. the travel time among the three cities has been 8,338 7,193 2014 Guangdong Hubei The Bay Area, comprising nine cities on the vastly shortened, increasing opportunities for 2015 6,000 Chinese mainland and the nation’s two special further growth. For example, the driving time administrative regions, is considered one of Chi- between Hong Kong and Zhuhai has been 33.8% 14.4% 2013 na’s most economically and socially dynam- slashed to just 30 minutes from about four ic regions. As one of the most populous hours. 8.1% 5,700 areas in the country with a combined The bridge is expected to lift region- population of about 68 million, al development to a new level, set- PRD airport capacity will fall short 2012 the region’s cities have experi- ting the stage for the area to of projected 2030 demand 6,820 6,523 6,502 2016 huhai-Ma enced immense progress become a center of high- ort Unit: million g-Z ca P Sichuan Henan Hebei 5,500 n o in living standards, tech, fi nance and 2010 o B K r transporta- trade. i 2.9% in 2017 g d 202 n g 34.0% o e 19.5% H 1989 5,000 15.7 a Intercit elt y R D a r il Shanghai HZMB e w 40,233 Estimated daily tra c iv a y Drogden R Tunnel of l N fl ow for HZMB Unit: km the Oresund r Singapore e a 33,667 Capacity in 2030 t e 175,000 Bridge w P shortfall o Shenzhen e r 25,209 k 126,000 h 147 Thimble s Ningbo- Busan- Chesa- T Shoal Tun- Zhoushan Geoje peake Demand 42,000 Fixed Link nel of the 24,607 Length of world-famous Chesapeake Channel Hong Kong 387 Bay Bridge– Tunnel of immersed tunnels the Chesa- 20,770 Busan Planned 29,100 Tunnel peake Bay Guangzhou-Foshan- Capacity 20,493 Bridge– Zhaoqing intercity railway Guangzhou Tunnel and Dongguan-Huizhou { 240 e Guangzhou-Zhuhai Qingdao 20,356 r Vehicle Passenger Vehicle Passenger intercity railway (opened e intercity railway Dubai 18,310 w trips trips to tra c in 2016) g 4.05 Tianjin n 7 (opened to tra c 15,368 o 1 2030 2037 6.7 1.7 K 0 in 2011) 15,069 g 2 2017 n in Container throughputs of the ports in o s 3.5 1.6 2016 2011 H t 2017 d or Bay Area were much larger than other an p u er main bay areas worldwide ho in 2.05 z ta Passenger trips in the four main Investment in PRD intercity railway 3.67 ng n Unit: million TEUs a co bay areas worldwide in 2016 Gu t As of March 2017 16.98 n, es 16.98 he si Unit: million nz bu he 10 of S op A total of 188.2 billion yuan rts e t 76 San Po th s* ng TEU 62.6 Francisco o d am an ity ous pac t: th ca Uni argo t of c Bay Area *A uni 117 To kyo Debt Provincial Total length of PRD funds 27% 27% investment intercity railway 35.60 Unit: km New York 7.7 130 Num ers Unit: million Tokyo 717 ber of railway passeng 6.3 24% 22% China Railway 186 Bay Area Local Corporation 300 2.4 New York investment San investment Francisco 2020 2017 Sources: Legislative Council; the Hong Kong SAR Government; China Nuclear Energy Association; Hong Kong Nuclear Investment Company; O cial websites of relevant airports; Civil Aviation Administration of China; IATA; CCTV; gdcd.gov.cn; cngaosu.com; hzmb.org; the Dongguan government; gaotie.cn; MTR; National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors; Guangdong Provincial Railway Construction Investment Group.