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Wuhan: to be an economic hub of "three ports and five districts" by 2030

Worker's Daily - reporter Zhang Chong of China Industrial Network Correspondent Chen Yalan

"Wuhan will strive to build a new paradigm of 'hub+channel+platform+industry' hub economic development." Recently, the Wuhan Municipal Government released a series of conferences on "Wuhan accelerating the transformation of 'three advantages'" to interpret the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Transformation of Transport Location Advantages into Domestic and International Double Circulation Hub Link Advantages (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions).

The Opinions clearly pointed out that by 2030, Wuhan will be fully built into a hub economic development carrier of "three ports and five zones". Relying on the three core ports of water, land and air, it will build five hub economic demonstration zones at a high level, namely, Yangluo hub economic demonstration zone (near the port), Tianhe hub economic demonstration zone (near the airport), Wujiashan hub economic demonstration zone (near the railway), commercial services and production services, Build Wuhan into a core hub city of double circulation based on the central region, serving the whole country and connecting with the world.

It is revealed that today, Yangluo Port has opened more than 20 international freight routes to the four ASEAN countries, with a container throughput of more than 2 million TEUs. Ten thousand ton freighters set sail from here, becoming the largest port in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze New Area is striving to transform Yangluo Port from a transportation hub to a logistics hub and an economic hub.

"It will strengthen the construction of hub type major infrastructure, promote the upgrading of dock berths, adapt to the needs of large-scale ships, and build a modern container hub port. Promote the construction of smart green ports as a whole, build a public information platform for Hubei supply chain logistics, promote the comprehensive coverage of '5G+' technology, intelligent dispatching system for container terminals, shore power facilities, etc., and improve the modernization level of ports. " Tu Pinghui, deputy director of the Yangtze New Area Management Committee, introduced.

Tu Pinghui further introduced that the Yangluo hub port will also form a modern port collection and distribution system consisting of road, rail, water and other transportation modes with "sufficient capacity, reasonable layout, balanced structure, and smooth connection", vigorously develop brand waterway routes, strengthen river sea intermodal transportation, water rail intermodal transportation, water and water direct transportation, and water transportation system along the river, build river sea land linkage, serve the central and western regions The multimodal transport service network radiating Europe, Asia and Africa actively serves and integrates into the national unified market, and helps the construction of the golden waterway of the Yangtze River and the shipping center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

In terms of the construction of Tianhe Hub Economic Demonstration Zone, Zhang Feng, member of the Standing Committee of the Huangpi District Committee and deputy head of the Huangpi District, said that three major measures should be taken to improve the energy level of the airport hub, promote the development of airport industry clusters, and build a new airport city with complete supporting facilities.

Specifically, in April this year, Tianhe Airport T2 Terminal was put into use after reconstruction, and connected with T3 Terminal, boosting the airport's passenger throughput capacity to 50 million person times per year. After the completion of the three runways of Tianhe Airport in June 2024, 80000 flights can be added every year, the annual passenger throughput can be increased from 35 million to 63 million, and the cargo throughput can be increased from 450000 tons to 600000 tons.

"Next, Huangpi District will focus on developing a modern airport industry system to complement the weakness of aviation preference industry development. First, we need to accelerate the cultivation of high-value, export-oriented technology enterprises and create more export sources of goods in response to Tianhe Airport's" large port and small cargo "problem. For example, it supports Changjiang Optoelectronics, which accounts for 60% of the global market share, to export infrared digital sights to the United States, Britain, Bulgaria and other countries. Second, we should make up for the shortcomings of bonded logistics and obtain the approval of B-type bonded logistics center as soon as possible. We will promote the construction of Xinyi Logistics Trade Port in the United States, and introduce Unilever and other brand product delivery and settlement centers in central China. " Zhang Feng pointed out that.

In order to accelerate the transformation of Wuhan's traffic location advantage into a domestic and international double cycle hub link advantage, Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Transport and other departments have played a policy combination punch.

In March 2024, the Office of Wuhan Leading Group for Opening up issued the Measures of Wuhan to Promote Cross border Trade Facilitation in 2024, focusing on improving Wuhan's cross-border trade facilitation from four aspects and helping Wuhan to create a comprehensive modern circulation strategic fulcrum city. They are to systematically integrate relevant reform matters in the cross-border trade field independently promoted by customs, border inspection, maritime affairs, commerce, taxation and other departments in the early stage; Based on the development needs of core pillar industries such as "optical core screen terminal network" and automobile, optimize the customs clearance process and promote cost reduction and efficiency increase; A series of reform measures initiated by the whole country or the whole province have been explored and implemented, such as the "straight through" quarantine of wood packaging goods, vacuum packaging and other high-tech goods control and inspection modes extended to university research institutes, "DIGIT" online export tax rebate comprehensive service platform, etc.

Wuhan Transport Bureau promotes the "smooth flow of goods, people's enjoyment of their travel and wealth accumulation" from three aspects: "expanding channels, dense networks and strengthening hubs". In terms of "wealth gathering", we will continue to promote the "last mile" of rail water intermodal transport in Yangluo Port, accelerate rail transit line 20 and other projects, promote zero distance transfer in passenger transport hubs, and achieve 5 minutes' bus and subway access, 30 minutes' high-speed and railway access, and 50 minutes' airport access in the urban area; Vigorously develop port, airport and railway economy, introduce leading enterprises, cultivate enterprises in storage, and strengthen platform enterprises. By 2025, there will be more than 450 A-level logistics enterprises and more than 20 5A level logistics enterprises in the city.