Ezhou Huahu Airport: 8 years, from a company to think of the "No. 1 Project"

At 11:36 in the morning on July 17th, the SF 767 cargo aircraft leaps, and the first and the world's fourth professional freight hub airport in Asia is officially launched. At this point, a corporate idea planned 8 years ago, eventually levied the track of Hubei Province to "strive to build a pioneering district of the country to build a new development pattern in the country" as the "No. 1 project" of Hubei Province.

Why build a freight hub airport?

A shot of corporate ideas and economic development

At 9:07 am on July 17th, SF's full cargo aircraft that took off from Shenzhen Baoan Airport landed smoothly at the west runway of Huahu Airport, Ezhou, and passed the water gate. Reporter Jin Zhenqiang Photo

Compared with developed countries, China's express delivery industry starts late, but with the development of the e -commerce industry, the domestic express delivery industry has maintained a 50%high -speed growth for many years: in 2014, China surpassed the United States to become the world's first courier; in 2015 , Express business volume exceeded 20 billion pieces.

In the context of high -speed development, the express delivery industry has gradually exposed many shortcomings. Similar to the e -commerce industry, the trend of China Express is from east to west, from south to north. There is a phenomenon: the planes flying north and west are not enough, and they are dissatisfied when they come back. Domestic airports based on passenger transportation are difficult to meet the requirements of freight hubs in terms of resources and facilities. It is imminent to build a professional freight airport.

About 8 years ago, the SF Group keenly captured the vacancy in the market. For the sake of corporate development, it proposed the idea of ​​obtaining a dedicated freight hub with the same role as Federal Express at Memphis Airport in the United States.

The original intention given at that time was designed for passengers for domestic airports. It did not consider freight, especially the needs of the express delivery industry. In June 2015, the president of SF Aviation mentioned the question about "airports": "The actual operation of the entire express process on the ground is not very smooth, and we have conflicts with passenger resources, so we have to make such a consideration. "

Seemingly passive moves, in fact, have been born early in many years. In the process of high -speed development, SF Group realized that dedicated freight hubs have significant significance to reduce industry costs and accelerate corporate transformation.

Taking Memphis International Airport as an example, Federal Express, founded in 1971, was about half a century later than the US express delivery industry UPS at the time. The idea of ​​"Da", due to the small business volume in the first few years, loses tens of millions of dollars per year. Since then, the company has moved his headquarters to Memphis to build a freight hub airport and quickly achieve high -speed development. Memphis has also become one of the world's largest freight hubs from a small city in the United States.

As soon as it is, this idea has stepped on the "drum" of the logistics industry to make a target of Hubei Province's use of nine provinces. The construction of a professional freight hub airport has a direction.

Why does the freight hub choose Ezhou?

One son falls, full of work

Ezhou Huahu Airport. Reporter Ren Yong

On the morning of July 17th, at the investment ceremony of Huahu Airport in Ezhou, the chairman of SF Group stated that under the strong leadership of the provincial and municipal headquarters, the builders excluded all difficulties and fought day and night. More than 10,000 people work at the same time without major accidents. In the construction of the same scale airport, the airport has the fastest approval, the fastest construction, the fastest investment and operation, and the most provincial investment. The industry will be amazed. Healthy development has made more contributions to the new development pattern of Hubei Province and the country.

Behind the industry's amazing, the location of Ezhou has become the key to "full of activity".

"If there is no airport 'Hubei" Ezhou, maybe East East may be so strange, everyone lives its own dull days. This chess is too clear, and the entire East East will be revitalized at once! "" Yizi son Falling, live, not only Ezhou. "After being put into operation at Huahu Airport in Ezhou, some netizens left a message.

Time goes back more than 7 years ago. On December 29, 2014, the Provincial Joint Work Course and the Civil Aviation Design Council and China Civil Aviation Engineering Consulting Company initially determined the "8+1" alternative site plan. Soon, the site of Xiaogan Tian Erhe announced his withdrawal. Except for Wuhan Tianhe is a joint plan, the remaining Wuhan (Tonghu, Wulongquan), Xian Tao (Changyoukou, Pengchang), Huanggang (Shangbahe, Peng, Peng, Peng, Peng Thoughts) The two sites of the three places have entered the alternative scope. At that time, only one site was selected at the time of Ezhou, not Yanji, but the Cangbaiwan, which was previously selected from the map.

At the two elections before March 9, 2015, experts still tried to select Pulu Baiwan as an Ezhou alternative site, which was listed as an elimination target.

To this end, the Ezhou side did not give up and worked hard to communicate with many parties, and strived to use the site of Yanji as the only alternative site in Ezhou. On May 12 of that year, the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission was led by the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission.

During this period, there is a well -known detail. From January to April 2015, SF Group also conducted a "secret investigation" to arrange employees who were originally born in the city where the city where the site was located. To the leadership style, it is small to spitting, losing garbage and other uncivilized behaviors. The final statistics showed that Ezhou ranked first.

On April 22, 2016, the China Civil Aviation Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Civil Aviation Administration) of the Ministry of Transport officially approved the "Instructions on the Hubei International Logistics Core Hub Airport Site", and agreed to use the site of the Yanji site of Ezhou as the recommendation site. This project Become the "No. 1 Project" in Hubei Province. Ezhou can be finally selected. In addition to the active consolidation of local governments, its unique location advantages are indispensable. 80%of the population is only one night away from the world's major cities. "Relevant sources from the Ezhou Ling Air Economic Zone said that Ezhou Huahu Airport and Wuhan Tianhe Airport constitute the" dual hub "of passenger and freight transportation, which helps give full play to Hubei Demo Middle Independence The unique geographical advantages of thick and nine provinces, reversing the passive situation of "not along the edge, no relying on the sea". It is very important for Hubei to accelerate the re -revive after the epidemic, support the rise of the central region, and participate in the construction of the Global "Belt and Road" to create a "air outlet in the air". significance.

Huahu Airport set a number of records

Government support at all levels is the key

Ezhou Huahu Airport Tower. Reporter Ren Yong aerial

According to the relevant personnel of the Ezhou Linkong Economic Zone, the site selection of Huahu Airport began at the end of 2014. It was approved by the State Civil Aviation Administration on April 6, 2016. Record. In order to optimize the approval service, the examination and approval service of the airport housing construction project has been established to further compress the approval time limit through the reduction of processes and materials.在相关资料无法齐备的情况下，采取“告知承诺，容缺后补”的方式开辟绿色通道，及时容缺办理机场红线内包括塔台、转运中心等工程，用地规划许可证、工程规划许可证和20 certificates such as construction permits ensure the legal construction of the project.

Some people describe that Huahu Airport is another masterpiece of China's infrastructure strength.

A set of data proves: more than 6,000 households in the core area of ​​nearly 20,000 people have relocated, which takes one and a half years. The demolition process has achieved "zero non -visit", "zero speculation", "zero accidents"; 1.77 million mu (the total airport covers 17,800 acres), which has saved the construction period of the construction period and more than 100 million yuan in demolition costs for the construction of the airport project. In addition, the Ezhou Huahu Airport started in May 2020 and was completed on December 29, 2021. At present, it is currently undergoing. These time nodes refresh the construction period of the domestic hub airport.

Not only that, Ezhou Huahu Airport, as a type 4 airport demonstration project identified by the National Civil Aviation Administration and the pilot project of the construction information reform reform of the Ministry of Urban -Rural Development, has implemented a number of innovative projects such as "big data simulation", "5G" and "smart runway". More than 60 patents and copyrights. By opening multi -dimensional information such as design, quality, cost, and cost, a digital twin airport with "what you see is obtained" is the first airport project in China to deliver physical projects and digital models at one time.

"What we see is the efforts of the plane's departure from Hong Kong and the flow of people, and there are too many people condensing too many people to turn the blueprints in the past into a reality." A builder who participated in Huahu Airport said.

(Changjiang Daily reporter Liu Haifeng)

【Edit: Zheng Xiaoxiao】

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