Not long ago, the State Council reiterated that it will focus on the development and construction of the western region. As a node city in the western region, Sichuan will prioritize transportation as a key construction area. The General Office of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province has recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Seizing Major Opportunities to Promote the High-quality Development of the Rail Transit Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Opinions"), which will promote the Sichuan Railway through the construction opportunities of major railway projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. High-quality development of the transportation industry.

Currently, Sichuan Province is facing major opportunities such as a new round of western development, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing double-city economic circle, and the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network plan. Key projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, Xining-Chengdu Railway, and Chengdu-Dalian High-speed Railway have started one after another. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, construction of more than 10 key projects including the Chengdu-Yuzhong Line High-speed Railway will be launched. According to preliminary estimates, in the next ten years, the total investment in these key projects will exceed 1,100 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), the equipment demand will exceed 300 billion yuan, and the demand for construction materials will exceed 200 billion yuan.

As one of the 16 key areas of the modern industrial system in Sichuan Province, the rail transit industry chain in Sichuan Province is complete. It has now formed a whole industry chain pattern integrating scientific and technological research and development, survey and design, engineering construction, equipment manufacturing, and operation and maintenance. From January to May 2021, the operating income of the rail transit industry in Sichuan Province reached 34.83 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.4%; the total profit realized was 1.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 37.6%.

According to reports, the "Implementation Opinions" focus on scientific and technological innovation and propose to strengthen the construction of innovation platforms. It will build a group of national rail transit innovation centers and build special materials innovation platforms in plateau and alpine regions; organize implementation based on the construction needs of major railway projects. Sichuan-Tibet Railway construction major scientific and technological projects, breakthrough key core technologies such as intelligent TBM (tunnel boring machine) under plateau and alpine conditions, organize the implementation of major scientific and technological projects for high-temperature superconducting high-speed maglev construction, and break through key core technologies such as high-speed magnetic levitation design and construction.

In terms of building industrial clusters, the "Implementation Opinions" proposed the layout of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway technological innovation achievement transformation base, operation and maintenance support base; to build key rail transit equipment, high-end construction equipment, new materials and other industrial bases, prefabricated construction production bases, and The "air, space, and ground" integrated survey and design base supported by UAV, Beidou, and ground geophysical equipment.

At present, China's transportation infrastructure equipment has a strong momentum of development, and many technologies have reached global leading positions. The "Implementation Opinions" proposes to promote the upgrading of equipment manufacturing and improve the level of new material manufacturing: support the R&D and manufacturing of new rail transit systems, and iterative upgrades , Promote the digital and network upgrade of mechanical and electrical supporting equipment, encourage the development of construction equipment to be specialized, intelligent, and unmanned; encourage enterprises to develop advanced steel materials, and develop new non-metallic materials to meet the requirements of cold, corrosion, and long-term railway projects. Life and special structure requirements. Editor/Xu Shengpeng