Reinventing the Nation: Made in China 2025

[AndrewJin]

A network of expressways needs be built on Shanghai's Chongming，the third largest island in China。

Wow, my first time to use Baidu street view, roads in the countryside on Chongming Island are amazing!
This should be set at the minimum standard of village roads around China!!!

 

[Shotgunner51]

A network of expressways needs be built on Shanghai's Chongming，the third largest island in China。

Don't worry bro. Being part of Shanghai city, Chongming Island is well taken care of! Since 2009 we have a new infrastructure:

Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge
Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is a bridge-tunnel complex across the south fork of the Yangtze River near the river mouth in Shanghai. The tunnel connects the Pudong District of Shanghai on the south bank of the river with Changxing Island, while the bridge connects Changxing Island with Chongming Island. In combination with the Chongqi Bridge (opened in December 2011), which connects Chongming Island to the north bank of the Yangtze, the bridge-tunnel complex forms the final crossing of the Yangtze before it empties into the East China Sea. Built from 2005 to 2009 at a cost of 12.6 billion yuan (US$1.84 billion), and opened on 31 October 2009. Their combined length is 25.5 km, forming part of the G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway.

Cross-River Tunnel Section

It is 8.9 kilometres (5.5 mi) in length, and has two stacked levels. The upper level is for a motorway, and has three lanes in each direction. The lower level is reserved for a future Shanghai Metro line. The tunnelling was completed using four world's biggest tunnel boring machines, the largest of which was 15.43 metres in diameter, 135 metres long, and weighed 2,300 tonnes.

Cross-River Bridge Section

It consists of two long viaducts with a higher cable-stayed section in the middle to allow the passage of ships. The total length is 16.63 kilometres, of which 6.66 kilometres (4.14 mi) is road and 9.97 kilometres bridge. The overall shape of the bridge is not linear but slightly sigmoid ("S" shaped). The central cable-stayed span is about 730 metres, the longest span of any bridge in Shanghai, and the 10-th longest cable-stayed span in the world. The bridge has three road lanes in each direction, Room on both flanks of the bridge is reserved for a future Shanghai Metro line, so total deck width is 35.3 m.

 

[AndrewJin]

Don't worry bro. Being part of Shanghai city, Chongming Island is well taken care of! Since 2009 we have a new infrastructure:

Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge
Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is a bridge-tunnel complex across the south fork of the Yangtze River near the river mouth in Shanghai. The tunnel connects the Pudong District of Shanghai on the south bank of the river with Changxing Island, while the bridge connects Changxing Island with Chongming Island. In combination with the Chongqi Bridge (opened in December 2011), which connects Chongming Island to the north bank of the Yangtze, the bridge-tunnel complex forms the final crossing of the Yangtze before it empties into the East China Sea. Built from 2005 to 2009 at a cost of 12.6 billion yuan (US$1.84 billion), and opened on 31 October 2009. Their combined length is 25.5 km, forming part of the G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway.

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Cross-River Tunnel Section

It is 8.9 kilometres (5.5 mi) in length, and has two stacked levels. The upper level is for a motorway, and has three lanes in each direction. The lower level is reserved for a future Shanghai Metro line. The tunnelling was completed using four world's biggest tunnel boring machines, the largest of which was 15.43 metres in diameter, 135 metres long, and weighed 2,300 tonnes.

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Cross-River Bridge Section

It consists of two long viaducts with a higher cable-stayed section in the middle to allow the passage of ships. The total length is 16.63 kilometres, of which 6.66 kilometres (4.14 mi) is road and 9.97 kilometres bridge. The overall shape of the bridge is not linear but slightly sigmoid ("S" shaped). The central cable-stayed span is about 730 metres, the longest span of any bridge in Shanghai, and the 10-th longest cable-stayed span in the world. The bridge has three road lanes in each direction, Room on both flanks of the bridge is reserved for a future Shanghai Metro line, so total deck width is 35.3 m.

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Now Chongming islanders won't depend on ferry any more, which is often shut down because of bad weather.

 

[ahojunk]

Their roads in the countryside are not bad.
When we name an expressway, we mean controlled-access highway.
If we use Indian criteria(They call some normal highways as "expressway"), we will have at least 1,000,000 km expressways.

These are "provincial highways"(worse than national highways) or village roads.
We cannot call this highway "expressway" since it's not controlled-access.
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Village roads on the island
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Your rural or village roads look much better than those in the rural areas in advanced countries.
Sigh!...

Wow, my first time to use Baidu street view, roads in the countryside on Chongming Island are amazing!
This should be set at the minimum standard of village roads around China!!!
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Chongming Island looks like a very nice place to live.

China is making me full of envy.

International financial crisis sparked off by US sub-prime loans, and Lehman Brothers.

Financial crisis of 2007–08 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They say the west is good in building financial bubbles but China is good in building infrastructure.

@Shotgunner51 @TaiShang
I'd rather say their success is because they are in China, the biggest market and they are backed up by the central government.
Without this huge expressway network(111,950km by 2014), could Alibaba succeed?
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Without perhaps the densest expressway network in Yangtze Delta, could Alibaba realize 1-day delivery?
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Could Alibaba be successful? Probably not in the rural area without the transport infrastructure.

Cross-River Tunnel Section

It is 8.9 kilometres (5.5 mi) in length, and has two stacked levels. The upper level is for a motorway, and has three lanes in each direction. The lower level is reserved for a future Shanghai Metro line. The tunnelling was completed using four world's biggest tunnel boring machines, the largest of which was 15.43 metres in diameter, 135 metres long, and weighed 2,300 tonnes.

Good planning and foresight to cater for a future Shanghai Metro line.

Cross-River Bridge Section

It consists of two long viaducts with a higher cable-stayed section in the middle to allow the passage of ships. The total length is 16.63 kilometres, of which 6.66 kilometres (4.14 mi) is road and 9.97 kilometres bridge. The overall shape of the bridge is not linear but slightly sigmoid ("S" shaped). The central cable-stayed span is about 730 metres, the longest span of any bridge in Shanghai, and the 10-th longest cable-stayed span in the world. The bridge has three road lanes in each direction, Room on both flanks of the bridge is reserved for a future Shanghai Metro line, so total deck width is 35.3 m.

Again, good planning and foresight to cater for a future Shanghai Metro line.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Your rural or village roads look much better than those in the rural areas in advanced countries.
Sigh!...
Chongming Island looks like a very nice place to live.
China is making me full of envy.

An experience worth sharing is that Shanghai has super-high density in downtown, while keeping rest of the city as low-density as possible (even uninhabited), supported by infrastructures. Chongming Island is one of the 6 districts of Shanghai put under low-density by Urban Planning. The Island is focused on agricultural science and leisure, these pics are from Chongming Forest Park:

Most Shanghainese working youth don't live there, but definitely one nice place to enjoy their weekends or holidays! Welcome to visit Shanghai my friends!

 

[Pangu]

An experience worth sharing is that Shanghai has super-high density in downtown, while keeping rest of the city as low-density as possible (even uninhabited), supported by infrastructures. Chongming Island is one of the 6 districts of Shanghai put under low-density by Urban Planning. The Island is focused on agricultural science and leisure, these pics are from Chongming Forest Park:

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Most Shanghainese working youth don't live there, but definitely one nice place to enjoy their weekends or holidays!

Looks so calm. The feeling must be so strongly different escaping from downtown Shanghai.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Looks so calm. The feeling must be so strongly different escaping from downtown Shanghai.

Ain't it true my friend, considering this hell is where we struggle to work during the weekdays! See the difference ... forest of trees in Chongming vs forest of concrete, steel & glass in Lujiazhui ....

 

[Pangu]

Ain't it true my friend, consider this is where we struggle to work during the weekdays! ...

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The picture is just so stunning, we really come a long way in the past 30+ years, I'm always grateful we keep on track despite all our problems.

 

[AndrewJin]

Your rural or village roads look much better than those in the rural areas in advanced countries.
Sigh!...



Chongming Island looks like a very nice place to live.

China is making me full of envy.



They say the west is good in building financial bubbles but China is good in building infrastructure.



Could Alibaba be successful? Probably not in the rural area without the transport infrastructure.



Good planning and foresight to cater for a future Shanghai Metro line.



Again, good planning and foresight to cater for a future Shanghai Metro line.

Rural or village roads in the east in super good.
But not so good in midwest under western standards.

 

[TaiShang]

China to Launch Three or Four More Beidou Satellites This Year
2015-04-01

China launched a new-generation satellite into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan. [Photo: Xinhua]


China plans to launch three or four more satellites for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network this year, the network's chief designer said.

A complete network will take shape by 2020, Yang Changfeng, chief designer of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), was quoted saying by the PLA Daily on Wednesday.

The 17th satellite in the BDS global network was launched on Monday, marking the first step to expand it from a regional to global service.

The BDS global network will be made up of 35 satellites, five of which will be in geostationary orbit.

Compared with the satellites already in operation, the latest has longer life and higher accuracy, Yang said.

Its service life is around ten to 12 years compared with eight years of the old model, and the maximum accuracy is two to three meters, he said.

China launched the first BDS satellite in 2000. In December 2012, it began providing positioning, navigation, timing and short message services to civilian users in China and parts of the Asia-Pacific.

The system has been gradually introduced into transportation, weather forecasts, marine fishing, forestry and telecommunications.

The new satellite was developed by the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, a non-profit organization established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Municipal Government.

 

[antonius123]

German institute's patent analysis shows China's lead in Industry 4.0

A cartoon depicting the Industry 4. 0 technology. (File photo/CFP)

A research paper published on Monday suggested that China has now far outstripped the United States and Germany when it comes to patents for basic technologies of Industry 4.0.

According to the German Fraunhofer Institute of Labor Economics and Organization (IAO), part of its China TechWatch research project involves analyzing developments in Chinese technology.

As the IAO summed up, China is an attractive market for solution providers of Industry 4.0, a term for the technological concepts of cyber-physical systems.

Since 2013, Chinese inventors have filed over 2,500 patents in this field, putting China way ahead of the United States at 1,065 patents and Germany at 441, as more than 300 Chinese companies and research institutes have applied patents on Industry 4.0 technologies.

China is not only ahead in terms of the number of patents, but has also developed highly innovative inventions, said the paper.

China is moving towards advanced technological fields, from a centralized control system to intelligent, decentralized and self-adaptive control.

In March of this year, the Chinese government announced a new strategic program Made in China 2025, aimed specifically at promoting Industry 4.0 technologies.

This should grab the attention of the local industry in Germany, said Fraunhofer IAO, adding that China has been working hard on the technologies that underpin the "fourth industrial revolution" for years now.

The challenge facing Western companies is to identify high-quality inventions without spending undue time and money, Fraunhofer IAO said.

German institute's patent analysis shows China's lead in Industry 4.0｜WantChinaTimes.com
Industry 4.0: China moves into the fast lane

 

[TaiShang]

Ten Lead Sectors

- Information technology

- High-end numerical-control machinery and automation

- Aerospace and aviation equipment

- Maritime engineering equipment and hi-tech vessel manufacturing

- Advanced rail equipment

- Energy-saving vehicles

- Electrical equipment

- New materials

- Biomedicine and high-performance medical apparatus

- Agricultural equipment

Five Key Categories of Project

- Construction of innovation centers

- Intelligent transformation

- Industrial foundation improvement

- Green manufacturing

- High-end equipment innovation

Nine Major Tasks

- Improving the national innovation capability of the manufacturing industry

- Advancing the deep integration of informatization and industrialization

- Strengthening industrial foundations

- Ensuring quality and building up brands

- Promoting green manufacturing

- Making breakthroughs in key sectors

- Pushing forward the restructuring of the manufacturing industry

- Developing service-oriented manufacturing and producer services

- Propelling the internationalization of China's manufacturing industry

(Source: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)

 

[TaiShang]

'Made in China 2025' plan unveiled
Xinhua, May 19, 2015

China's State Council has unveiled a national plan, dubbed "Made in China 2025," focusing on promoting manufacturing, a notice said on Tuesday.

The plan was authorized by Premier Li Keqiang, according to the notice.

"Made in China 2025" is the first 10-year action plan designed to transform China from a manufacturing giant into a world manufacturing power.

The 10-year plan will be followed by another two plans in order to transform China into a leading manufacturing power by the year 2049, which will be the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Nine tasks have been identified as priorities: improving manufacturing innovation, integrating information technology and industry, strengthening the industrial base, fostering Chinese brands, enforcing green manufacturing, promoting breakthroughs in 10 key sectors, advancing restructuring of the manufacturing sector, promoting service-oriented manufacturing and manufacturing-related service industries, and internationalizing manufacturing.

The 10 key sectors are new information technology, numerical control tools and robotics, aerospace equipment, ocean engineering equipment and high-tech ships, railway equipment, energy saving and new energy vehicles, power equipment, new materials, biological medicine and medical devices, and agricultural machinery.

To fulfill the tasks, "Made in China 2025" will focus on five major projects, including establishing a manufacturing innovation center, said the notice.

To shore up the plan, China will introduce a slew of policies to deepen institutional reforms and strengthen financial support.

The implementation of the "Made in China 2025" plan will be market-oriented, though guided by the government, according to the notice.

 

[Economic superpower]

The 10 key sectors are new information technology, numerical control tools and robotics, aerospace equipment, ocean engineering equipment and high-tech ships, railway equipment, energy saving and new energy vehicles, power equipment, new materials, biological medicine and medical devices, and agricultural machinery.

This is a great list which covers all the important strategic sectors.

Information Technology
New energy vehicles
Railway equipment
Aerospace equipment
High-tech ships
Ocean engineering equipment
Power equipment
Agricultural equipment
Medicine
Medical devices
CNC tools
New materials
Robotics

 

[Economic superpower]

Make in India vs Made in China 2025

Let the games begin.