Hong Kong to access the national high-speed rail network in 5 years to Beijing in just 8 hours

January 16, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen High Speed Railway (HK) project was voted for by the Legislative Council of the HKSAR. As of 2015, the high-speed rail ride from Hong Kong to Beijing is only 8 hours shorter than the current 24-hour 2/3 It is the will of the majority of Hong Kong people to build high-speed rail links with the national high-speed rail network as soon as possible. 26 km high iron link to the mainland 16,000 km high iron net, to lay a solid foundation for the future development of Hong Kong half a shot, a high-speed rail budget from HK $17 billion to 66.9 billion Hong Kong dollar, the original plan for the Hongkong and Shenzhen High Speed Railway was proposed in May 2000, and the HKSAR Government in rail development Strategy 2000 Proposed the construction of Regional Express link Shenzhen, but for various reasons were shelved. 2004, the Ministry of Railways issued the "Medium and long-term railway network planning", decided to build a "four vertical four horizontal" railway network, and to integrate Hong Kong into the planning.　　2005, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway began construction, is expected to be opened in September 2012, Futian Guangdong. The Hong Kong High Speed railway, which has been slowed down by half, was not formally put on the agenda until 2007, and in October 2007, the chief executive of the HKSAR, Mr Donald Tsang, made the Hong Kong-Shenzhen high speed railway as one of the top ten infrastructural projects in Hong Kong　　The Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) formally approved the Hong Kong Railway Corporation's further planning and design of the Hongkong section of the High speed railway and authorized the Hong Kong Railway Corporation to operate the Hong Kong section in 50; in November 2008, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government issued a memorandum with the Ministry of Railways. In October 2009, the Hong Kong SAR Executive Council formally approved the construction of the Hongkong-Shenzhen High Speed railway line and set aside HK $2 billion to levy land.　　Two months later, the funding application was tabled for scrutiny by the Legislative Council after nearly 1 months of discussion and finally passed on January 16. Long-term planning discussions, the budget for the high-speed railway in Hong Kong rose sharply from the initial estimate of HK $17 billion to HK $39 billion in 2008, to the current HK $66.9 billion, so that the Hong Kong-Shenzhen high-speed railway is called the "most expensive high-speed railway".　　Of these, HK $55 billion was used for railway construction, HK $11.8 billion for non railway construction, and $ more than 80 million for demolition compensation. Take the whole tunnel design, 2016 estimated revenue of 1.12 billion yuan, operation without government subsidy to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the length of 140 kilometers, is the planning of the "four vertical four horizontal" high-speed rail network in the "one vertical"-Beijing-Beijing passenger dedicated line part. The Hong Kong-Shenzhen high-speed railway has a total length of 26 kilometres from Hong Kong West Kowloon to Shenzhen Futian.　　After its completion, Hong Kong will become the South Gate of the national high-speed railway network. The Hong Kong High speed railway is built in tunnel mode with the highest operating speed of 200 km/h, no stations along the way, only the West Kowloon Terminus. With the completion of the high speed railway in 2015, the travelling time from Guangzhou to Hong Kong can be shortened to 48 minutes, and Hong Kong passengers can reach Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and 16 major mainland cities without interchange. Among them, high-speed rail in Guangzhou Shek Pik can be connectedBEIJING-Guangzhou passenger dedicated line, in Shenzhen Longhua can connect Hangfu deep passenger dedicated line. Under the High Speed rail scheme announced by the Government of the HKSAR, half of the West Kowloon High Speed railway terminus will be "sunk" to free up turf at the top floor of the station to serve as a pedestrian area to connect the future West Kowloon Cultural area. 2 Tunnels and 6 flyovers will be built around the high-speed rail station to connect the nearby subways, airport express lines and other areas.　　In the Shek Kong Garden Village, the government will also construct an emergency relief station and a train storage service to construct a tunnel by means of a clear and backfill method, and to classify about two hectares of land on the ground as a community farm. The SAR government estimates that after the opening of the high-speed railway, the revenue of 1.12 billion yuan is estimated in 2016, with an annual deduction of interest, tax and depreciation of $390 million, and to 2031 operating income of $3.61 billion, with a net income of 2.19 billion yuan.　　　　As a result, the government does not need to subsidize funds for high-speed rail operations. Access to the 16,000-kilometer high-speed rail network in the mainland, Hong Kong as the South Gate of the high-speed rail network according to statistics, since 1988, the passenger volume of cross-boundary vehicles connecting Hong Kong and the mainland has increased by one times almost every 10 years, reaching a daily average of 458,000 people last year.　　It is imperative to promote the construction of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway. The future of high-speed rail will connect Hong Kong with the 16,000-kilometer high-speed rail network in the mainland, and the two longitudinal and four-train Shanghai and Beijing can achieve the same.　　For Hong Kong's Pearl River Delta region, the "one-hour Life circle" is more close at hand. The huge benefits of high-speed rail to Hong Kong are obvious.　　The SAR government has given the high-speed rail the counting: in the 50 operating period of the high-speed rail, the average daily two-way passenger flow of up to 99,000 people, of which 84,000 people are travelling between Shenzhen, Humen, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, a year down, a total of 42 million hours to save traffic time, bring 87 billion economic benefits, the return In this connection, an official of the SAR government has made a figurative analogy, "if we compare the existing transport links between Hong Kong and the mainland to ' dial-up", then the future high-speed railway will be ' broadband internet '. January 5 This year, the Secretary for Transport and Housing of the Special Administrative Region, Ms Eva Cheng, arrived in Wuhan for a trial ride in Wuhan, arriving in Guangzhou 3 hours later. She praised the high-speed train ride comfortably enough to be comparable to a plane. In November 2009, she also admitted: "The Hong Kong-Shenzhen high-speed railway will not be built. The early realization of the high-speed rail project will bring great benefits to Hong Kong economically, lest Hong Kong be marginalized. Huang Shaoming, a senior economic researcher at the Bank of Hong Kong, said that apart from the economic benefits, the integration between Hong Kong and the mainland would be of greater significance in the construction of the Hong Kong segment of the High Speed railway. Hong Kong is located at the end of southern China, not a transport hub, but also a long-term focus, through cross-border infrastructure construction and the rapid development of China's hinterland closely linked. It is a good opportunity for Hong Kong to lay the groundwork for the future development of the mainland by connecting 26 kilometres of high iron to over 10,000 kilometres of high-speed rail network.