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Region's governors plan massive upgrade of Pearl River Delta logistics
POSTED: 8:26 a.m. EDT, June 22,2007
Provincial governors whose trade is dependent on the Pearl River Delta (PRD) met recently to co-ordinate their roles in a massive logistics upgrade that is already bringing radical changes to infrastructure, reports Xinhua.
During the Pan-PRD Forum in Changsha, Hunan province, south China provincial governors said they would consolidate the region as the traditional export gateway.
Guangdong province alone plans to invest CNY48.5 billion (US$6.3 billion) in infrastructure construction, including CNY33 billion on highways and CNY14.7 billion on port-related works.
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region aims to become a new export gateway of the pan-PRD and is working to establish a transport system for the Pan-Beibu Bay Economic Co-operation Zone.
Guangxi Vice Chairman Mu Hong said his territory would accelerate the building of the Nanning International Integrated Transportation Hub, the coastal port cluster and airports, Guangxi-ASEAN sea routes, highways as well as highways and railways to Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
Luo Baoming, Governor of Hainan, the tropical island province, said he would invest in port and airport construction to serve the inland transportation system of the region. He hoped Hainan would become one of the regional logistics centres of southeast Asia as it had the only 300,000-tonne capacity crude oil terminal in south China as well as possessing a 100,000-tonne product oil terminal.
Fujian Governor Huang Xiaojing said his province would set up a modern integrated transport system of expressways, railways, seaports and airports. The province, he said, is now accelerating construction of hub ports including Xiamen, Fuzhou and Meizhouwan as well as building a number of expressways and railways.The south eastern province will also start construction of Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway and Xiangtang-Putian Railway that connects Fujian with Guangdong and Jiangxi respectively and then join hands with Jiangxi province to boost the construction of Xiamen-Chengdu Expressway Fujian-Jiangxi section as well as upgrade the Ganzhou-Longyan Railway.
Fujian also awaits approval from the central government for the construction of Ningde-Shangrao Expressway, Fujian-Zhangzhou-Shantou Expressway and Yongding-Meizhou Expressway.
Governor Qin Guangrong of Yunan, the inland province, said he would build international overland links with southeast Asia and south Asia. Construction of the east and west lines of the Pan-Asian Railway had been started, he said, and the China sections of the three expressways linking his province with southeast Asia had been completed.
The Kunming-Bangkok Expressway will be put into use by the end of this year and the Kunming-Hanoi and Kunming-Rangoon expressways are under construction. As for waterways, improvements to the Honghe River, Mekong-Lancang River and Yiluowadi River waterways have been accelerating in the province, said Governor Qin. |
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