What are the major municipal projects completed in Shanghai in the past year of 2024?
According to the recent introduction by the Shanghai Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Committee and the Shanghai Major Projects Office, in 2024, the city’s major projects will focus on actively expanding effective investment, implementing major national strategies, enhancing the city’s core functions, and improving social well-being to inject new vitality into Shanghai’s high-quality development.
The Shanghai-Suzhou-Lake Tongyu Railway, which will be opened on December 26, 2024, will be a new artery in the “railway network in the Yangtze River Delta”. The project, which began construction in June 2020, starts at Shanghai Hongqiao Station, passes through Suzhou in Jiangsu Province, and terminates at Huzhou Station in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The total length of the line is approximately 164 kilometers, with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour and eight stations including Shanghai Songjiang Station. The completion and operation of this project will further optimize the layout of Shanghai’s railway hub, effectively alleviate the transportation pressure on the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou railway corridors, and is of great significance for promoting the economic and social development along the line and the integrated high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta.
For the Shanghai Songjiang Station of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Lake Tongyu Railway…
The Airport Linkage Line, which will be opened in advance on December 27, 2024, is one of the first 11 municipal demonstration lines determined nationwide and the first self-built city line in Shanghai. The project, which began construction in June 2019, is 68.6 kilometers long with nine stations along the line and a maximum operating speed of 160 kilometers per hour. With the opening of the Hongqiao Terminal 2 to浦东1号2号航站楼段, it has achieved a 40-minute fast connection between the two major airports, significantly improving the service capacity of the two major hubs, as well as the level and efficiency of Shanghai’s urban public transportation services, and opening a new chapter for higher-quality integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta.
The轨道交通17号线西延伸, which will open for initial operation by the end of November 2024, began construction in June 2021. It is an important rail transit line within the Yangtze River Delta demonstration area, extending from the existing Dongfang Green Village Station to the West Qin Station, with a total length of approximately 6.6 kilometers and one station and one interval. The whole line is an elevated line, continuously crossing the G50 Expressway and a third-level channel. The completion of this project will further improve the trunk transportation network in the ecological green integrated development demonstration area of the Yangtze River Delta, achieving fast transportation links between Zhangjiang High-tech Park West Silicon Valley, Huawei’s research and development base, Qingpu New Town, Hongqiao hub, and even downtown Shanghai.
The renovation project of Shanghai Port Laojing Port Container Terminal Phase I, which will achieve port opening on August 7, 2024, began construction in December 2022. As the first systematic old terminal renovation project in China, it is a new generation of automated container terminal built by Shangport Group. The Phase I project has a designed shore length of 1,432 meters and a designed annual capacity of 2.6 million standard containers, adopting a fully automated container terminal construction plan and focusing on domestic routes. As a typical representative of smart ports in Shanghai, this project makes full use of old materials during construction, with a utilization rate of 70% for old structural resources. The construction of Laojing Container Port further巩固了上海作为全球最大集装箱港口的地位,帮助上海港成为全球首个年吞吐量超过5亿标准箱的港口。
The new construction project of Yindu Road Crossing Tunnel, which will be completed and opened to traffic on December 27, 2024, started construction in December 2019. The project starts at the intersection of Jindong Road and Yindu Road in Xuhui District and ends at the intersection of Pujin Road and Luzheng Road in Minhang District, with a total length of about 3.8 kilometers. The project adopts a general scheme of “double-deck tunnel,” with four-way four-lane scales both above and below. The completion of this project is conducive to improving the city’s backbone network, diverting traffic flow across the Outer Ring Road of S20 Highway, enhancing regional traffic capacity, and promoting integrated development across both sides of the Huangpu River.
Expo Culture Park will be fully opened on September 20, 2024. The project, which began construction on September 20, 2017, is located in the core
