National highway high -quality development program documents are released: encourage the pilot of infrastructure REITs in the highway field

On July 12, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Transport issued the "National Highway Network Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") proposed to coordinate the construction of national highways and new infrastructure; Active survival assets.

At the special press conference of the National Development and Reform Commission held on the day, Meng Wei, a spokesman for the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the "Planning" proposed the national highway network to the layout plan from 2035, with a total scale of about 461,000 kilometers. This is a programmatic document that guides the high -quality development of national highways in the new period. Its printing and implementation will have an important and far -reaching impact on the development of highway traffic in my country, and play an important role in accelerating the construction of a national comprehensive three -dimensional traffic network.

In recent years, the rapid development of the national highway, and the maintenance of high -level operations in construction has become an important area for stable investment and stable growth. Zhou Xiaoqi, deputy director of the Infrastructure Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that since the "Thirteenth Five -Year Plan", my country's highway construction investment accounts for about 2.4%of GDP, of which the proportion of national highway construction investment accounted for highway construction investment. It has a significant role in stable investment and stable growth.

Zhou Xiaoqi said that from the perspective of the future construction needs of the national highway, according to the calculation, there are still about 28,000 kilometers of the national highway to build a road section, and there are about 30,000 kilometers of busy road sections that need to be expanded. In the future, the future construction tasks are still heavy. National highway construction will continue to play a key role in driving effective investment and provide strong support for stabilizing the economic market.

It is worth mentioning that the "Planning" emphasizes the focus of innovation and empowerment, and coordinates the construction of national highways and new infrastructure. The full period of the national highway's full -cycle digital transformation, promoting the relevant standards of system and revision, and adapting to the needs of digital development.

"In terms of innovation and development, the in -depth application of cutting -edge technologies such as new generation of information technology and artificial intelligence on national highways, promoting the intelligent upgrade of national highway infrastructure, vigorously developing new infrastructure, promoting the integration and development of national highway infrastructure and information networks, and continuously Improve the level of national highway digitalization and network connection, and accelerate the realization of national highway network planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation management and other all -element digitalization. "Wang Songbo, deputy director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Ministry of Transport, said.

Wu Qi, Executive Dean of the Wuxi Digital Economic Research Institute, told the Securities Daily that the intelligent upgrade of transportation infrastructure is an important area for the integration and development of new infrastructure and traditional infrastructure. Promoting the wisdom of the national highway infrastructure is conducive to improving the level of the entire element of highway infrastructure, the level of digitalization of the full cycle, the digital upgrade of the road transportation industry, and improving the guarantee capabilities, regulatory capabilities and service capabilities of highway transportation. At the same time, the wisdom upgrade of traffic infrastructure such as highways is also an important part of the construction of major projects, which is conducive to expanding effective investment, which is of great significance to stabilize the economic market.

"Highway infrastructure has a large investment scale and long return cycle. It needs to be planned and scientifically planned. It is necessary to further explore and improve the commercial operation model, and encourage and attract social capital to participate." Wu Qi said.

Zhou Xiaoqi said that the "Planning" proposed improvement of the funding guarantee mechanism. Reform and innovate investment and financing policies, and further improve multi -channel, multi -level, and diversified investment and financing models. On the basis of implementing the responsibility of the right to expending and strengthening the guarantee of fiscal funds, it is encouraged to attract social capital to participate in national highway construction. Encourage the properly carried out in the field of highway in the highway field to pilot the real estate investment trust fund (REITs) pilot to actively conduct active survival assets. Amend the "Highway Law" and "Toll Highway Management Regulations" in a timely manner, adjust the toll road policy, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the highway.

Xu Yang, chief economist of Hong Kong Zhongrui Fund, said in an interview with the Securities Daily that due to the large investment amount of the national highway construction and a long construction time, the pilot of infrastructure REITs in the highway field can give full play to REITS The advantages of low investment threshold, low transaction costs, and good liquidity. For ordinary investors, it is an excellent investment product that can leverage more private capital to enter, so as to accelerate the construction of transportation infrastructure and drive economic growth.

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