2023-04-24 18:50:22
Members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, led by Chief Executive Li Jiachao, visited Guangdong. One of the key points was to investigate how the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area can work together to achieve high-quality development.
A group of people went to visit Dongguan-Hong Kong International Airport Center. This is indeed a typical case of cooperation in the Greater Bay Area, and it is worth a book.
Hong Kong is an international aviation hub. Affected by the epidemic in the past three years, passenger traffic was almost at a standstill, but cargo has been kept busy, but the bottleneck in Hong Kong has also been highlighted.
We need to change our way of thinking, set goals and push backwards. The country has set the goal of developing into a socialist modern power in 2049. It is estimated that China’s GDP will be twice that of the United States at that time. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has a great chance to remain the locomotive of the national economy, and Hong Kong is likely to remain the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area As an aviation hub in the region, how can Hong Kong’s aviation industry develop to catch up with this huge demand?
I talked to people in the air transport industry, don’t talk regarding going to 2049, just go to the halfway target time point of 2035, Hong Kong Airport only has 3 runways is not enough, it needs 5 runways. Guangzhou Baiyun Airport now has 3 runways, and by 2035 there will be 5 runways, while Shanghai Pudong International Airport will be expanded to have 8 runways in 2035, and the scale of Hong Kong Airport is not enough.
In addition, Hong Kong does not have enough people and land, so it has to borrow land from the mainland. The Hong Kong International Airport Center in Dongguan built by the Hong Kong Airport Authority is such a concept. After the logistics center is set up in Dongguan, the process will be transferred to the comprehensive bonded area of Dongguan Port, and the goods will be tallied and cleared in the way of Hong Kong air cargo security, and then transported seamlessly by water to the cargo terminal of Hong Kong International Airport, without security checks and directly on the plane Shipping to anywhere in the world. International goods can also be reverse-imported to the Mainland using the above-mentioned route.
Hong Kong is not only short of land, but also has a serious shortage of drivers for cross-border container trucks. This way of tallying goods in Dongguan to clear customs and ship them to Hong Kong by sea saves cross-border drivers and can handle half of Hong Kong’s air cargo volume in the future. Hong Kong makes good use of the hinterland of the Greater Bay Area and cooperates with Dongguan for a win-win situation. This is the real collaboration of the Greater Bay Area.
If Hong Kong cannot build 5 to 8 runways, can it hold Zhuhai Airport? The Airport Authority has operated and managed Zhuhai Airport in a franchise model since 2006. After the completion of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the distance between Hong Kong Airport and Zhuhai Airport has been shortened. In November last year, the Airport Authority signed a memorandum of understanding with Zhuhai City to consider taking a stake in Zhuhai Airport. However, it is of little use for the AA to only be a minority shareholder. It is still the thinking of the two airports. If the AA can control the Zhuhai Airport, then the Hong Kong and Zhuhai airports will be fully integrated, which will be another matter. Zhuhai is planning to build a second runway, and the airports of the two cities will be operated together, so that one plus one equals three.
In the past, Guangdong and Hong Kong operated independently, with a competitive mentality rather than cooperation. In the future, under the thinking of the integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the “9+2” cities must each vigorously develop their own strengths and cooperate in different fields to share benefits in order to build a world-class Bay Area at the fastest speed.
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