China spent 4 billion yuan to build the longest railway running through 9 provinces, and 2 million people benefited from it. Have you ever been on it?

This is the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, which runs in the north-south direction and crosses nine provinces, starting from Beijing in the north and reaching Kowloon in the south, connecting North China, Central China, East China and South China. Because of its extremely important traffic significance, it is called a traffic artery in China. This railway has been accepted as a major project of the Eighth Five-Year Plan of the State, and together with the Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze River, it has become a bright pearl in the history of the new China project. The Beijing-Kowloon line is also the longest double-track railway built with the largest investment in China, and 2 million people in China have benefited from this railway.

Historical evolution

In fact, at the beginning, the national plan for the Beijing-Kowloon Line was from Beijing to Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, because Jiujiang, as an important city in the north of Jiangxi Province, borders Hubei in the north, Nanchang in the south, Poyang in the east and Hunan in the west. Mr. Zhongshan once made the idea of building the Yangtze River Bridge in Jiujiang to make it a "north-south railway center", but because he died young, this idea was never put into practice.

The state has made a promise to build a railway for the people of Jiangxi. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1958, according to his instructions, Teng Daiyuan, the first Minister of Railways of New China, put forward the idea of building a railway from Beijing to Jiujiang, and the line was included in the national railway construction plan of China at that time.

In p>1978, the Ministry of Railways submitted the Report on the Design Task of Jiujiang Railway in Beijing, and proposed that "a modern railway should be built according to the standards of double track, electrification and passenger speed of 16 kilometers per hour". However, at that time, our country just proposed to take the road of reform and opening up, so there was not much money, technology and manpower and material resources to build this railway. It was not until the 198s that the State Council decided to approve the construction of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway and announced the name of the project. At that time, it was proposed that the Beijing-Kowloon Railway should be extended to Kowloon and completed before July 1, 1997.

After careful consideration and full preparation, China concentrated on doing great things and invested a lot of money and manpower. Only after more than three years of construction, the Beijing-Kowloon Line has passed the national acceptance and officially started to run. Up to now, China has invested a lot of money in this railway for maintenance every year.

North-South Artery

The Beijing-Kowloon Line runs from north to south across nine provinces and cities and a special administrative region of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangdong, and is a huge project connecting the north and south of China. It crosses five major water systems, including the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. It passes through Dabie Mountain, Luoxiao Mountain Range and southeast hilly areas such as Gannan and Jiulian Mountain in northeast Guangdong.

crossed many complicated terrains. The cultural, economic and geographical conditions along the route are different, which inevitably leads to many dangerous places. More than 2 tunnels have been built in the distance of more than 1 kilometers from Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province to Ganzhou, and the geology of these tunnels is very unstable.

After these years of expansion, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway is not limited to connecting Beijing and Kowloon. Its transportation scope also extends to Harbin in Heilongjiang Province and Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province. It is the well-deserved longest railway in China. In addition to the original passenger and freight tasks in North China, Central China, South China and East China, it also undertakes to extend the cross-regional passenger and cargo exchanges between Northeast China and Northwest China.

Every day, a large number of people move and goods are transported on this railway, and many of these goods are key materials related to the national economy and people's livelihood, which have made great contributions to the construction of modern industry, agriculture and service industry in China, and 2 million people have benefited from it.

Visible benefits

The Beijing-Kowloon Line has been in operation for more than 2 years, bringing many tangible benefits and conveniences to the areas and people along the line. In 25 alone, the total GDP of the areas along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway exceeded one trillion yuan, accounting for 6.8% of the total GDP of the country at that time, which promoted employment in these places and effectively promoted the adjustment of industrial structure along the line. At present, the economy of these areas has made great progress, and gradually changed from relying mainly on agriculture with low economic benefits to relying mainly on secondary and tertiary industries with higher economic benefits, and more than 2 million people along the route have gained rich benefits.

In some areas along the Beijing-Kowloon Line, it was difficult to achieve climate even with superior geographical conditions because of traffic conditions, and the economy never developed, so it was difficult to fully cooperate with the surrounding areas. The opening of the Beijing-Kowloon Line has greatly changed this situation, and many places have become the only way for economic exchanges between the North and the South. Coupled with the convergence with the original railway line, it has strengthened economic exchanges with surrounding areas, greatly improving the strategic position and economic strength of these areas in the country.

the construction of this traffic artery has greatly improved the traffic environment along the line, broadened the radiation range of coastal areas to the mainland, played a complementary role in giving play to the advantages of agriculture and resources in the mainland and strengthening regional economic cooperation, and promoted the rationalization of the economic layout of mainland provinces. The improvement of traffic conditions has also greatly improved the investment environment along the line, increased the attraction to foreign and domestic capital, and created extremely favorable conditions for the all-round development of China's economy and the overall opening up.

the superior traffic environment provides conditions for the smooth flow of passenger transport, logistics and information along the line. The concentration of population, capital and economic activities along the line and the exchange of culture and information make the cities along the line form and their functions and status become more and more prominent, which also promotes the urbanization process in these areas and forms a relatively complete transportation network with the original railway, highway and waterway transportation.

Prospect of Beijing-Kowloon Railway

Following the coastal zone, the economic belt along the Yangtze River and the economic zone along the border, it has become an urgent task to develop the economy along the railway. Faced with new opportunities and challenges, many areas along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway have made great efforts to adjust the industrial layout and productivity layout. In recent years, a number of projects have been started or put into production in many areas, and these projects are all driven by the market.

The historical opportunity has closely linked the development of the areas along the Beijing-Kowloon Line with the development of China as a whole. In order to obtain higher economic growth benefits, these regions should strengthen their vitality in the national market on the one hand, and strive for their own place in foreign trade on the other.

The construction of the Beijing-Kowloon Line has enhanced people's great ambition to develop modern economy along the line. We have reason to believe that in the near future, there will be many emerging cities along the Beijing-Kowloon Line, and the original cities will become bigger and stronger, and other areas not along the line will also get radiation and influence. I hope that the economic zone along the Beijing-Kowloon Line can be extended to more places in the future, and by that time, more than 2 million people will benefit from it.