The account of the new type of urbanization should be clear.

Chenjia Town in Chongming, which is adjacent to the central city of Shanghai, has a unique natural environment, and no one who enters this small town can ignore this ecological feature. its annual excellent and good air rate of 92.9%, 300 square kilometers of Dongtan wetland retains the original natural texture and water system. The layout of the town also reflects the overall pattern of a new type of town with the blending of town and countryside and the close relationship between man and nature. Its ecological town, knowledge city and leisure place are positioned to depict the beautiful map of the development of small towns.

Especially after the opening of the Yangtze River tunnel and bridge project in 2009, the convenience of transportation makes these pastoral scenery readily available. Every holiday, Chenjiazhen and even Chongming Island are caught in overcrowded "congestion". Urban tourists who have lived in the city for a long time are willing to come here to enjoy the pleasures of nature, you know, it is only about an hour's drive from the city center. But the problem is that on normal days, these tourists often disappear.

The phenomenon is more than that. Chenjia Town plans to have an urban population of 210000 in 2020, but now there are only more than 60, 000 local people, and the rest are mainly the elderly and children, and young people are entering the urban area of Shanghai to seek jobs. Although Chenjiazhen has also planned an international education research and development zone, which can accommodate three or four universities to run schools here, and the Xiandai College of Shanghai Foreign Studies University is located here, there are 3,000 to 4,000 people active on campus in the opening season, but they are not consumer groups that can take root here after all.

If we want to reach the planned population size in the next five or six years, we need to increase the population by more than 20,000 a year, and it is only possible that the population has to increase by more than 20% a year on average. From the perspective of Yu'an Modern Community, the largest local living community, 1/3 has been built, and more than 3000 households have settled in 1 million square meters of resettlement houses, with relatively complete living facilities. Farmers not only live in buildings, but also have multiple residential buildings in each family through demolition, which can be sold as commercial housing in five years' time. The improvement of living conditions and the growth of household wealth have made a new type of urbanization possible.

At present, the house price in Chenjia Town is only 6,000 to 7,000 yuan per square meter, which is of course a depression compared to the average property market price of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in Shanghai, but property buyers have not "flocked in". Even if the long-term benefits are valued, the occupancy rate is very low, even if the buyer is within an hour's normal drive from the house in Chenjia Town to his place of work. What's the reason? In a word, the person in charge of an important local enterprise said that the high toll of the tunnel and bridge project is the biggest obstacle restricting the flow of people.

It turns out that the opening of the Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge in Shanghai has effectively improved the traffic environment of Chongming Island and Changxing Island, but the pricing standard of 50 yuan for one-way bus passage (30 yuan for Yangtze River Bridge and 20 yuan for tunnel) and 100 yuan for round trip also brings a higher threshold to the flow of people and logistics. Public information shows that the main toll collection of Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge is Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge Construction and Development Co., Ltd., with a toll life of 25 years.

Of course, there is a certain degree of reason. the total investment in the Yangtze River tunnel and bridge project is 12.6 billion yuan, and these inputs need to be recovered gradually. at present, the working day flow of the tunnel and bridge project is 20, 000 to 30, 000 vehicles, if calculated according to the standard of minibus charges, the annual charge is about 500 million yuan. if you add in the maintenance costs and interest costs, it does take about 25 years to recover the investment. Of course, it is true that government investment also needs to be accounted for, but the question is, is this the only way to recover the investment?

For example, Chongming county finance guarantees tolls and allows traffic to pass free, but the county-level revenue of Chongming county in 2013 was only 4 billion yuan. It is probably not realistic to spend 1/8 yuan to pay for passing vehicles. Residents who do not come in and out of Chongming Island may also have a problem with this. However, the economic account cannot be calculated with this alone. For example, Chenjiazhen has good development prospects and a small population, and it is obviously insufficient to talk about the new type of urbanization with people as the core. If its population can be doubled, based on the per capita GDP of more than 90,000 yuan in Shanghai, the corresponding GDP of this new population will be more than 12 billion.

Of course, the increase in population does not simply correspond to the increase in GDP, but this is certainly the premise of development. The new type of urbanization requires the cooperation of industries and the accumulation of population, but at present, due to the high fees charged by tunnel and bridge projects, the population has been unable to grow for a long time, and the supporting industries and daily life are lack of power. Liang Jun, general manager of Chenjia Town Construction and Development Co., Ltd., Chongming County, Shanghai, said bluntly that at present, he is pinning his hopes on Rail Transit Line 19, when the population may show explosive growth. According to public information, the plan may not be completed until the 13th five-year Plan period.

Is it possible that the solution is to make more residents of Chenjia Town and even Chongming Island wait for five or six years or even longer? This is a bit lazy thinking, of course, the cost of the tunnel and bridge project should be recovered, but the development of Chen Jiazhen and even Chongming should not lag behind, and it is necessary to find a way to "release water and raise fish." It is true that the current financial resources of Chongming or Chenjiazhen cannot easily cover the annual toll of 500 million yuan, but what about after five or even ten years of development? Let Chen Jiazhen, like the back garden of the center of Shanghai, develop, gather popularity, and then repay the debt through the increased revenue.

We should know that the tolls of five bridges and three tunnels across the Huangpu River in Shanghai were also abolished on May 1, 2000. at that time, we not only had to solve the problem of congestion caused by tolls, but also supported the development and opening up of Pudong. After more than a decade, Pudong, after the acceleration of the flow of people and logistics, entered the fast lane of development, and its radiation benefit to Shanghai far exceeded that of those eight charging items. Why can't Chongming enjoy the same treatment? At least more preferential treatment can be given.

In fact, there has been such a voice in Chongming for a long time, but there has been no reply. In recent years, relevant members of the Chinese people's political Consultative Conference and deputies to the National people's Congress in Shanghai have put forward suggestions on reducing the tolls of the Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge. The investigation report on exemption of tolls for Chongming vehicles and Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge submitted by the Special investigation Group of Municipal people's Congress deputies in Chongming County The group suggested that the problem of toll exemption for Chongming vehicles on the Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge should be solved as soon as possible, so as to give full play to the role of tunnel and bridge in promoting the economic development of Chongming. Only when this account is calculated clearly can the new type of urbanization really take people as the core.

In June this year, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council, which deployed the construction of a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation corridor to build the Yangtze River economic belt, and discussed the adoption of the "medium-and long-term Plan for the Development of the Logistics Industry." the meeting called for the improvement of logistics infrastructure, improve the transportation network, improve the urban traffic management of logistics and distribution vehicles, and speed up the solution of the outstanding problem of "choking". The charging bottleneck of Chenjiazhen and even Chongming Island happens to be reflected in it. On the one hand, Shanghai Chongming, which can not build the Yangtze River economic belt without the Yangtze River estuary, and the medium-and long-term development of the logistics industry can not ignore the Shanghai Chong-Su Great Corridor. The essence of "Keqiang economics" is to delegate power and profit. "smooth flow of things" can not only obviously activate the economy, but also generally benefit the people's livelihood, why not local governments?