The high-speed rail from Hefei City to Wuhu City will be opened next year.

Recently, some netizens questioned the message board of the People's Daily Leadership. Is there an intercity railway planning to build Hefei to Wuhu? The Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission replied on September 26 that the Shangqiu-Hefei-Wuhu-Hangzhou high-speed railway is currently being implemented, and the Hefei-Wuhu section will be opened in 2020.

The netizen said in the question that as an important city in Anhui Province, Wuhu to Hefei still has no high-speed rail, and the Hefei Expressway has been repairing. Traffic jams are the norm. “The two cities need closer connections, and the inconvenient traffic is a big obstacle to the exchange between the two cities.”

Anhui Development and Reform Commission explained that in addition to the Shangqiu-Hefei-Wuhu-Hangzhou high-speed rail project being implemented in the above, the Hefei-Wuhu-Xuancheng-Ningguo intercity railway has been planned in the planning of the inter-city railway network in Anhui Province. Next, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission will actively strive to incorporate the project into the national “fourteenth five-year plan” and related railway planning, and start the preliminary work of the project and implement the construction according to the passenger transportation needs.

According to public information, Wuhu City is the largest city in the development planning of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration. The Qianjiang City Belt takes the core city of the industrial transfer demonstration zone, and the economic aggregate ranks second in Anhui Province.

Wuhu Municipal People's Government official website published in August this year, an article entitled "Wuhu Transportation is the pioneer of eastward integration development" said that there are currently seven high-speed highways such as G50 Yanjiang Expressway, G5011 Hefei Xuan Expressway and G4211 Hummer Expressway. The mileage is 284 kilometers, ranking the top three in Anhui Province (after Huainan and Ma'anshan). This year, Wuhu has made every effort to promote the construction of five high-speed highways, including the expansion of the “four-eight-eight-eight” expansion of the three high-speed,wuhu, wuhu, and hefei-wuhu, and the construction of the east extension project of the Huanghuang Expressway and Yuewu Expressway.

In another article published in the official website of the People's Government of Wuhu City in February this year, the relevant personage of the Wuhu Municipal Development and Reform Commission said that after the completion of the Shanghe-Hangzhou Railway at the end of 2019, the “double cross” of the Putie and the high-speed railway will be formed in Wuhu City. The Handan Railway and the Huainan Line form the Putie Cross, and the Ning'an Intercity and Shanghehang Railway form a high-speed rail cross, plus the Hefei High-speed Railway, which passes through Wuwei and Nanling counties.

However, compared with the construction of expressways, Wuhu Railway traffic faces real difficulties.

Xu Guoping, deputy chief engineer of China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Institute Group, introduced in the above article that since Hefei High-speed Railway has not passed through the main urban area of Wuhu City, Shanghehang Railway is under construction and has not been opened to traffic, resulting in the current direction of Wuhu to Hefei and Beijing. Direct trains for EMUs.

“The two major hubs of Nanjing and Hefei have obvious effects on the squeezing of Wuhu.” Xu Guoping explained that the distance between the three cities is too close, and the geospatial layout is almost equilateral triangle. Under the circumstances that the functions and status of Nanjing and Hefei hubs are continuously strengthened, the functional status of the Wuhu hub has been objectively suppressed and weakened. At the same time, Wuhu Station is located in the center of the city and cannot introduce more routes. Due to the constraints of the city's current situation and urban planning, there is little room for the development and adjustment and optimization of the Wuhu Railway Hub. Editor / Wang Zhizhe