On June 2, 2022, the Zhaoqing Municipal People's Government issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Zhaoqing's Comprehensive Transportation System".

The document shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period (2021-2025), Zhaoqing's transportation system development plan will invest 75.11 billion yuan and plan to implement 178 key engineering projects, covering airports, high-speed rail, urban rail, high-speed, airport, transportation hub, etc. building.

Rail Transit + Expressway + Trunk Network

Below, we first look at the overall goals of transportation for the next five years. By 2025, Zhaoqing will take "rail transportation + expressway + trunk line network" as the backbone, take the Pearl River Delta Hub (Guangzhou New) Airport and Zhaoqing East Station as the fulcrum, and rely on the Xijiang Inland Shipping Hub Center to build a comprehensive integration of Guangfo. , Quickly connect Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, and efficiently radiate the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network in the southwest.

In addition, the city will lead new industrialization and new urbanization with high-quality travel circles and high-efficiency logistics circles, supporting Zhaoqing to accelerate the construction of the western growth pole in the core area of the Pearl River Delta and a modern new city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

178 key projects with a total investment of over 75.1 billion

In order to achieve the above goals, Zhaoqing plans to implement nine key projects from 2021 to 2025, with a total of 178 projects and an investment of about 75.11 billion yuan.

Below, let's take a look at the specific plans for key transportation projects in Zhaoqing:

Rail Transit Engineering (13 items)

Zhaoqing should speed up the development of the four-network integration plan of "national trunk railway, intercity railway, municipal railway and urban rail transit", and actively plan to connect the three major poles of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Guangfo, Shenzhen-Hong Kong, Zhuhai-Macao and surrounding cities and other railways line.

It is worth mentioning that the document mentioned that Zhaoqing will further study the access to the Guangfo subway network to support the public transportation of Guangfo Zhaoqing.

In addition, the preliminary work of the Zhuhai-Zhaoqing high-speed railway Gaoming-Zhaoqing eastern section, Zhaoshun South Intercity, Shennan Railway Pearl River Delta Hub Airport to the provincial boundary project Zhaoqing section has started in the first half of this year.

Highway Engineering (12 items)

Zhaoqing will speed up the construction of a "six horizontal and six vertical" expressway network. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 6 expressways in Zhaoqing will be connected with Guangzhou and Foshan; 2 expressways will be connected with Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao.

"Six horizontal and six vertical" expressway layout

"Hengyi" G78 Shankun Expressway (built), "Heng2" S14 Shantou-Zhanjiang Expressway (built), "Hengsan" Huizhao Expressway (planned), "Hengsi" S8 Guangfo-Zhaozhou Expressway (built) , "Horizontal 5" G80 Guangkun Expressway (built), "Horizontal 6" Guangfo Zhaoyun Expressway (planning).

"Vertical One" G94 Pearl River Delta Ring Road (built), "Vertical Two" G55 Erguang Expressway (built), "Vertical Three" Jiangzhao No. 2 Expressway (planned), "Vertical Four" Zhaoqing-Gaoming Expressway (under construction) ), "Vertical Five" Deqing-Qingyuan Expressway (planned), and "Vertical Six" Huaiyang Expressway (built). Editor / Xu Shengpeng