西南高铁“大十字”

西南高铁“大十字”

历史上,贵州交通极不便利,和外界沟通交流困难。明末时期,贵州巡抚郭子章曾感慨:天下山川之险,贵州为最。今天的贵州已经形成水陆空立体交通体系。2014年,贵广高铁开通,标志着贵州迈入“高铁时代”。

目前,沪昆高铁(上海-昆明)、贵广高铁(贵阳-广州)、成贵高铁(成都-贵阳)、渝贵快铁(重庆-贵阳)均在贵州省会贵阳市交会,贵州境内高速铁路通车里程1527千米。贵南高铁(贵阳-南宁)正在建设中,预计2023年开通。以贵阳为中心的高铁“大十字”,使贵州因此而成为中国举足轻重的快速经济通道。

Cross-shaped High-speed Rail Network in Southwest China

Guizhou was not easily accessible in history, which made its communication with the outside world rather difficult. As what Guo Zizhang, Governor of Guizhou in the late Ming Dynasty, said about the place, Guizhou had the most precipitous mountains and most dangerous rivers. Today, however, Guizhou has a multimodal transportation system that offers air, land and water transportation services. In 2014, high-speed rail service was launched in Guizhou, marking the beginning of the province's high-speed rail era.

Now the Shanghai-Kunming, Guiyang-Guangzhou, Chengdu-Guiyang, and Chongqing-Guiyang high-speed railways all converge in Guiyang, capital city of Guizhou Province. The length of high-speed railways in service totals 1,527 kilometers in the province. The Guiyang-Nanning High-speed Railway is now under construction and is expected to be put into operation in 2023. The cross-shaped high-speed rail network centered in Guiyang fuels the province's economic development and plays an important position in the country.