Xinhua Finance, Hefei, June 27 (Reporter Faye Wong) At present, the spatial structure of my country's economic development has undergone profound changes, and urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas are becoming important spatial carriers for the high-quality integrated development of regional economies. Adapting to it, creating a "one-hour commuting circle" and building "urban clusters and metropolitan circles on the track" have also become hot words in the outlines of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of local governments.

Facing the superimposed dividends of the strategy of strengthening the country in transportation and the accelerated development of "integration of urban agglomerations", is there a "blue ocean" in the rail transit industry? How big is the market space of the industry? What opportunities and challenges will it usher in?

"During the '13th Five-Year Plan' period, the length of new rail transit lines in my country was 4,351.7 kilometers, and the cumulative investment was close to 3 trillion." Zhong Jianhua, executive deputy director of the China Rail Transit Association, said that the construction of rail transit is mainly concentrated in four urban agglomerations : Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Pearl River Delta and Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration. By the end of last year, the operating mileage of China's rail transit was 7,969 kilometers, and the average annual length of new operating lines was 870.3 kilometers, a record high.

Zhong Jianhua said that although my country's new-type rail transit is developing rapidly, from the data that foreign new-type rail transit accounts for 49%, the proportion of my country's new-type rail transit is only 18.5%. It shows that my country's new rail transit field has great potential and a promising market prospect.

After years of development, my country's rail transit has good conditions in the entire chain of technology research and development, planning and design, and product manufacturing, providing a solid guarantee for the development of new types of rail transit. The development of new rail transit will promote innovation, development, optimization and upgrading in the field of equipment manufacturing.

In Feidong County, Hefei City, Anhui Province, the construction of China Railway Hefei New Rail Transit and Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park is accelerating. It is reported that this project is also the first new type of rail transit R&D and manufacturing base of China Railway Corporation Limited in the Yangtze River Delta region.

"China Railway aims at the national strategy and needs to strengthen the key core technologies of rail transit, create a more intelligent, safe, comfortable, economical and green rail transit through technological empowerment, and promote the transformation of manufacturing to creation, speed to quality, and products to brands. " said Yu Tengqun, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of China Railway Group Co., Ltd.

It is reported that as a leading enterprise in the entire industry chain of transportation infrastructure, China Railway has developed five new types of tracks with independent intellectual property rights and mastered core technologies, such as suspended, medium and low-speed maglev, and hydrogen energy floor trams through scientific research. The transportation system has been implemented, and the market promotion and project implementation of suspension and maglev transportation systems have been realized.

"Urban rail transit has entered the Internet era. The operating mileage of rail transit in Hefei has reached 115 kilometers, the total construction length has reached 170.9 kilometers, and the maximum single-day line network passenger flow has reached 1.146 million." Hefei Mayor Luo Yunfeng said that rail construction and industrial development With a vast space, facing development opportunities, Hefei City has launched comprehensive cooperation with industry enterprises including China Railway, strengthened scientific and technological support, and promoted the deep integration of artificial intelligence, integrated circuits and other advantageous industries with the new rail transit industry.

In the face of industry trends, local governments and enterprises are also accelerating industrial layout.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Hefei City plans to build 1,000 kilometers of railways, 1,000 kilometers of expressways, 500 kilometers of urban expressways, and 500 kilometers of urban rail transit, achieving an average annual growth of about 45% in the rail transit equipment industry. Focus on building three major rail transit industry clusters: R&D and manufacturing of rail transit core components, rail transit repair and maintenance, and rail transit vehicle renewal manufacturing.

Zhong Jianhua believes that although my country's new type of rail transit is developing rapidly, there are still "short-boards" such as the low degree of network integration, the weak independent capability of core equipment, and the single structure of rail transit construction. In the future, urban rail transit will gradually change from speed and scale to quality and benefit development, and the coordinated development of multiple systems will become an inevitable trend.

Industry insiders believe that the process of my country's rail transit to improve quality and efficiency also brings potential opportunities for the development of the new rail transit industry.

Du Yanliang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that taking the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as an example, around its spatial system, the general idea is to develop from a single center to a multi-center, towards regional passenger transportation urbanization and passenger corridor network development.

"Multi-level rail transit reconstructs the spatial-temporal connection pattern of the Greater Bay Area, providing enough space for future industrial development and urbanization development. According to the spatial layout of half an hour in the inner bay and one hour in the bay area, the overall goal of improving rail transit is to There is an investment of nearly 800 billion yuan to 1 trillion yuan." Du Yanliang said.

While the construction of "city clusters and metropolitan circles on rails" reconstructs the spatial pattern, it also spawns a huge new rail transit industry market. Rapid, green, networked, collaborative, intelligent, and resilient have become the direction of rail transit innovation and development.

Jiangxi Province takes rail transit as the traction, and through the collaborative innovation of government, industry, academia and research, promotes intelligent manufacturing of new materials and the cross-integration of multiple related disciplines, and cultivates a new type of rail transit industry development ecology.

Professor Yang Bin, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, said that through the combination of production, education and research, the school has carried out technology research and development that integrates rare earth permanent magnet suspension and rail transit, and has now formed completely independent intellectual property rights. Because rare earth permanent magnets have the characteristics of no connection, safety, reliability, energy saving and high efficiency, and green environmental protection, there will be huge development in power generation, gears, springs, bearings and transmission mechanisms in the future. From the perspective of industrialization, an industrial scale with a trillion-level industry will be formed.

The interviewed experts said that to promote the high integration of transportation with new information, new materials, and new energy, and to focus on the new trends of rapidity, greening, networking, synergy, intelligence, and resilience, the "transportation +" industrial layout will become An important direction leading the future development of the rail transit industry.