Acta Geographica Sinica ›› 2020, Vol. 75 ›› Issue (12): 2699-2715.doi: 10.11821/dlxb202012011

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Population-development oriented comprehensive modern transport system in China

ZHAO Pengjun(), LYU Di, HU Haoyu, CAO Yushu, XIE Jinxin, PANG Liang, ZENG Liang'en, ZHANG Tingyu, YUAN Dandan   

  1. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Received:2020-03-30 Revised:2020-11-30 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2021-02-25
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(41925003);The National Development and Reform Commission Key Research Project for the National 14th Five Year Plan(20181201)

Abstract:

China's modernized transport strategies have been focused on building new infrastructures in areas with insufficient transport facilities, supplying the lack of new transport services, and investing in transport construction on a large scale since the 10th Five-Year Plan (2000-2005). However, these strategies are now facing new situations in population development, including population growth, migration, spatial relocation and agglomeration, and changes in lifestyle. It is imperative to investigate population-development oriented comprehensive modern transport system in order to implement people-oriented principles and the National Strategy of Strengthening Country in Transportation. This study presents some research results from the National Development and Reform Commission Key Research Project for the National 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), "Population Development and Modern Transportation System Strategies in China". The study is based on theoretical mechanisms in the coupling and interaction between population and transport system. It conducts in-depth analyses on the new trends of population development and transport demand, and proposes a new "diamond" strategy for China's comprehensive transport system in order to cope with these new trends. According to this strategy, the new comprehensive modern transport system in China will have four "diamond pole" including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Chengdu-Chongqing region, four "diamond edges" including Beijing-Shanghai (Jing-Hu), Shanghai-Guangdong (Hu-Yue), Guangdong-Sichuan (Yue-Chuan), and Beijing-Sichuan (Jing-Chuan) transport corridors, two cross backbones including water transport along the Yangtze River and Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao transport corridors, and multiple transport hubs in cities with intensive intracity population movement flow. The study also proposes key missions to implement the new strategy in order to build population-development oriented comprehensive modern transport system in China, which includes supporting the national development and spatial plan, applying for the National Strategy of Strengthening Country in Transportation, and supplying high-quality transport services with a priority to the people.

Key words: population development, comprehensive modern transport system, "diamond" strategy, National Strategy of Strengthening Country in Transportation