China's Mega Projects: Transportation

[Music] [Music] [Music] China is the world's second-largest economy along with a history of rapid growth has come one of the most developed transport networks in the world it has the world's largest highway network carrying 80 million tons of freight every day it has the world's largest high-speed rail network that connects hundreds of cities as well as a huge air transport system with 227 airports [Music] seven out of ten of the world's largest ports are on China's coasts this huge transport system is the backbone of the Chinese economy but progress Never Sleeps the network continues to develop night and day quantitatively and qualitatively meeting the challenge of getting people and goods around the nation the Duggar county in such one province is home to the world's largest printing house of Tibetan scriptures they have 320,000 printing blocks accumulated over the last three centuries the printing house reproduces 70% of the world's Tibetan classics covering Tibetan medicine history and culture which are delivered to all parts of China today master Doug ours dispatching a number of these classics to Cundy so look almonds - I don't I don't see a toss-up is Amanda's Oh totally duh cos nearly 600 kilometers from kangding a 24 hour ride the biggest obstacle in route is the Chola mountains that rise to 6 thousand 168 meters above sea level for centuries it has been a major barrier between the Tibetan region and the rest of China [Music] the narrow dirt road that connects this part of North suits one to Tibet was built over 60 years ago it snowed over for all but two months of the year a breakdown can cause a traffic jam which lasts for days it is notorious to drivers as the most dangerous road in China Oh this struggle will soon be over for five years a huge project has been underway beneath the mountains the Tola mountain tunnel will be the world's longest and highest road tunnel Corazon de su concurrence on quia him to be young she's super Ventress pardon Chi so he isn't a Tony my son Bannister who sweet o gentle Alicia's tell you she is yeah - Simon told me I guess they really don't she's afraid another champion said Oliver Donovan yes without Tigers at home Biden says you can Jana was gonna say that about me didn't you obey Newton's law the harsh environment puts every worker under huge pressure the project is entering the final stage the tunnel will be finished in a month's time thanks to the efforts of thousands over the past five years it will then take just ten minutes to cross the mountains and to do so in safety while sheltered from the weather so see ya today Huang Qi teen is going to be the first non engineer to drive through the tunnel his car is equipped with a 360-degree laser radar continuous image capturing camera and a positioning data acquisition system this allows him to collect Road information in real time as he drives along one team Jian also has to cope with altitude sickness as he drives through the world's longest high altitude tunnel in under 20 minutes all the mapping information from the tunnel has been collected Kuang teaching will continue mapping along the highways collecting data that has never been recorded before 2,700 kilometers away in Beijing Huang's data from the Chola mountains has been received an hour later and electronic map outlines the new road when it opens to traffic this new map will be sent to every mobile phone user through the Internet in less than a second [Music] China has the planets largest high weight network over 200 million vehicles carry 15 billion passengers and thirty three point six billion tons of cargo a year and the network is still expanding other bold projects like the Chola mountain tunnel will open to traffic China's highways now extend to every corner of the country for Lu shoed yet the highways are key to his family's livelihood you nuns wanyan County has a uniquely mild climate that allows it to produce the earliest citrus harvest in China however the fruit only remains in peak condition for a week before the highways opened the fruit could only be sold in surrounding cities within a few hundred kilometers from wining now with the National Highways Network Liu Shu Jia is able to travel across the country in a couple of days taking the fresh flavors of Yunnan to north and northeast China [Music] how the finala fine what I'm half-japanese he showed you taiga don't lose son-in-law is his co-driver using satellite positioning can pick the quickest route to his destination it's early someone puts in a demure bolo laughing what you know dear poet said that evolution we hope to deliver his cargo a fresh fruit to Beijing 2,700 kilometers away and sell it at good prices Lu Shu Jia has to drive overnight the highways at night are rarely quiet many items be they fresh fruit and vegetables or courier packages need to reach the city before it wakes up in the morning every 24 hours more than 20 million trucks like loose run across this huge highway network day and night they carry almost 85 million tons of cargo which accounts for nearly 80 percent of China's total Freight volume the network now spreads to four point 69 million kilometers of that 130 thousand kilometers our freeway the longest in the world China's highway network has become a huge engine to promote its social development but you can find that too many vehicles running empty on the road eating away the advantages of highway transportation about 40% of the trucks in China run unloaded which pushes up the cost of freight transportation and leads to a huge waste of energy the city of Chengdu is an important transport hub in southwest China in the north of the city one smallish gas station can claim to be the most profitable gas station in China it serves over 2,000 trucks every day it takes over 300 tons of fuel oil to meet the daily demand Oh shows your agency valiant Aria Celia reporter selena quintanilla engine uses a giant Oreo kumite suomen BNL d'italia chicken and a regular Google the building on the other side of the wall is why trucks gather here the freight market opens at 8:00 in the morning the trading Hall of chengdu logistics port is packed with more than a thousand truck drivers speaking a multitude of different dialects people used to find it very hard to find the best deal today the situation is already changing more and more people just start with a search on their mobile phones new technology is revolutionizing the way the transport system works Rondo Congo avi John Jantsch without other sharp see the hole with a lolly well Inga opre Chittenden translated opinion harder for the Congolese the technology has swiftly shown its appeal to drivers when a truck enters the gate of the highway harbour the vehicles information will be sent to the back office system [Music] the system automatically matches requirements and details of the trucks with the orders for delivery thus goods are matched to suitably qualified trucks and their drivers meaning that each day over two thousand trucks no longer run empty back out of the logistics center today more and more digital highway ports are being built across China the highway networks efficiency is being continuously optimized through the use of big data technology in the future every delivery will be more efficient with decreasing energy consumption per unit delivered however while highway transportation has great advantages it also has some inherent disadvantages soo-jung is an inland city in western china with a modest population of about three million one of its main claims to fame is that it produces diesel locomotives for 24 countries around the world for a city so far from the sea it is a significant challenge to be able to deliver its locomotives to customers who may well be on the opposite side of the globe 200 kilometers away in eben city the gene Shah and meand young rivers converge into the Yangtze River as the longest river in China the Yangtze has been a key communications corridor for thousands of years the great river leads all the way deep from inland China to the Pacific Ocean that the cost of water transportation is one fifteenth of that of highway transportation is an advantage and for extremely heavy goods water transport is irreplaceable a first batch of nine locomotives made for Argentina has been assembled they will travel down river to the port of Shanghai 2,800 kilometers away then in a couple of weeks time they will be transferred to a seagoing freighter and taken across the Pacific it is hoped that these first nine locomotives will lead to the opening up of new markets in the Americas highway transportation of these locomotives is very expensive and poses many problems with height and weight limits with water transportation these problems dissolve away the locomotives from Zoo young arrived at port workers hurry to hoist them onto the freighter after a busy night all nine locomotives have been safely stowed the advantages of water transportation for large cargoes are very obvious if not subject to the limitations of geography [Music] the arid west of China has an abundance of coal in 2016 China's coal production reached three point 36 billion tons which accounts for more than half of the national energy supply but most of this energy is needed in the East thousands of kilometers from where it is mined to get it there is the most intricate of Chinese puzzles [Music] the 594 kilometer schwa Quang railway is one of the busiest in China every day 226 trains run along it in pairs it is like a man-made canal a main artery for China's energy transport shunter in Shaanxi province is the starting point of this artery of coal stocks from western China gather here before being transported to east along this iron canal 216 wagons are marshaled into a three kilometer long train the 20,000 ton deadweight load requires to 9600 kW electric locomotives to get it moving then comes the really tricky bit [Music] the railway east of shun sure drops in elevation of more than 1500 meters the heavily loaded wagons traveled downhill through tunnels and bends the huge momentum they acquire poses a major threat to the safety of train if the 216 wagons failed to break correctly and in sequence on a bend in the track the consequences will be catastrophic the secret to solving the problem lies here every day children director of technology checks the 4G transmitter stations along the schwa Quang railway it's a world first in the application of this technology to heavy haul trains the two locomotives are 1.5 kilometers apart from each other but they have to be precisely controlled to ensure their synchronization a tenth of a second lag could cause a major accident in order to ensure full 4G coverage there are 260 transmitters along the length of the line sending a continuous stream of data 24/7 this advanced signalling technology is the key to ensuring the safe operation of these super long coal trains it allows synchronized control over the two electric locomotives set 1.5 kilometers apart all in a day's work a great performance to ensure there is no drama face recognition technology is one of China's leading edge developments based on image recognition and big data it can quickly lock on to target persons being searched for engineers in the monitoring all of the guei young public security bureau are commissioning a new face recognition and monitoring system 800 kilometers away Sal towel boards a train from Guangzhou to kwai young-hee need to get to go a young this afternoon to direct a crucial part of the commissioning work Sal tells company develops and provides facial recognition systems this year it decided to move its headquarters to Quay young due to the rapid development of communications in gradua province way Jo is the only province in China that is entirely mountainous while this makes for a spectacular environment the province has been equally notorious for its poor communications which have seriously impeded economic development Guangzhou is the capital of China's powerhouse manufacturing province Guangdong in the past it would take took 22 hours to get to way young by train [Music] now the journey time is just four and a half hours thanks to a new high-speed line connecting the two cities to generalize the immense height Sauter makes it for his appointment in a young job title truly yeah when you even come on you know to take a walk every city in China now presses for its own connection to the National high-speed rail network besides the convenience the economic and development opportunities this brings makes a compelling argument [Music] as of 2017 China has 22,000 kilometers of high-speed rail lines in full operation 60% of world total it has cut travel times between the great conurbations from days to hours and given rise to a flourishing economic circle around each [Music] five days downriver from eben and the Argentine bound locos have arrived at the Three Gorges Dam beginning in 1994 a huge investment and twelve years of work saw the building of the world's largest dam completed besides being designed to control flooding downstream and to aid consistent navigation the hydroelectric plant now generates nearly 100 terawatt-hours of electricity supplying nine provinces and two cities the dam has raised the water level in the upper yangtze by 113 meters which has submerged many dangerous shoals and shallows allowing larger vessels to make passage there I'm holding each year the traffic on the river at the dam is now 10 times what was planned for the world's 3rd longest river is now the world's busiest inland waterway the huge upgrade in capacity poses a major challenge it's no easy job for Guo Yan to coordinate so many ships through the dam she must rely on the set of five huge ship locks that she manages this is the world's largest inland ship lock 1607 metres long divided into five chambers with the capacity to take a maximum size vessel of 10,000 tons up to 12 3,000 tonne cargo ships can transit the dam in each direction at the same time with the huge fall of 113 meters transit time is four to five hours and longer when there is a backlog of vessels the waiting time can be problematic for pleasure boats and the emergency vessels that need to go through the dam quickly to deal with this the Chinese engineers have built the world's largest ship lift it can handle vessels of up to 3000 tons and take them through 113 meter fall in 10 minutes [Music] to achieve this speed the Chinese engineers decided to use a climbing of gear rack system aided by gravity the huge rack rolls up and down lifting and dropping cargo in the 200-meter long super elevator the use of the gravity counter weights greatly reduces energy consumption the ship left along with the two sets of locks one for upstream one for down have greatly increased the transport capacity on the river the Yangtze River tightly connects the eleven province as it passes through and forms a key economic corridor across the country the Argentine bound locomotives pass through the three gorges they'll continue on downriver for another 10 days before reaching the Yangtze Delta where they can be loaded onto an ocean-going freighter for their final destination for those that don't want to spend days on the water air is the answer Beijing Capital International Airport is the second busiest airport around the world in 2016 it saw throughput of close to 95 million passengers flight delays have become endemic with around 400 flights each day having to be postponed the solution is even greater capacity [Music] in the south of Beijing thousands of construction workers are tackling the flight delay problem they are building a whole new super airport to serve the city the huge steel starfish like structure means that passengers will never have to go more than 600 meters to reach their boarding gate the large central hall without columns is designed to maximize the public space the innovated design brings its own challenges for the builders Leo you and Fay climbs 20 storeys to the roof every day he is totally familiar with this huge structure good come your goal tatiana feels balancing me she balancing me not woman that to me another solo pardon single she do not know hey you got it by passionate meeting you go - hi Jacob funky Rihanna Shinhwa note how forgiving however the purpose of the building is not to outdo Beijing Olympic Stadium to meet the demands of 70 million passengers per year the design of the new airport must take into account many other factors the roof composed of twelve thousand three hundred spherical nodes and over sixty thousand bars is designed to have a natural curving appearance each junction between the beams and they're connecting spheres is supported by a series of three-dimensional locking points as the steel roof frames are completed attention turns to more of the internal core support points it will take eight workers to maneuver this 15 tonne curved tube into place it is one of the final piece in the 60,000 piece puzzle on the other side of the terminal building the construction of the four runways carries on a pace the new airport is intended to handle six hundred twenty thousand flights per year this will put huge stress on the runway surfaces and what lies underneath [Music] the engineers have developed a new system for compacting the subsoil the novelty lies less in the method of compacting than in the tracking and calculation of the ground covered and that which remains they kind of got Hudson that's either you got a load tray that you do what I want and I soil that had a hunky that's all you know Matata honking yeah and so he waits on my hands I've been doing here so I'm okay kind of daughter to the honking to way I hope I answer the Hong Kong I'm a to the tabular Catalan enjoy a happy occasion Beijing the super city is awaiting the completion of its new airport it is expected to start handling traffic in 2019 the time pressure is on [Music] China has the world's second-largest air transport market and it is one that's still growing at a rate of 10% per year there are 3,000 civil aircraft flying in China and this number is expected to grow to meet the demand China is seeking to build some of its own passenger aircraft the c919 is undergoing testing in pudong shanghai built to the latest international standards it will be China's independently developed large passenger aircraft and will have an important role in the country's future aviation market the first successful flight test was three months ago but there are still years of strict testing in accordance with international air worthiness standards site one has eleven years experience in civil aviation and is the c919 leading test pilot co-come oo-on you see you general aren t gonna - shall we see joy to the country so eager in Farsi he always opt to teach the other civilian sewing machine ear today tied one is working with the engineers on simulating emergency situation that might occur in flight the computer program simulates an aerial close encounter while the aircraft is banking tight one must make a quick evasive maneuver and steer the aircraft to safety there will be hundreds of tests done on this simulator but for tides one the real work is done in the air to complete the airborne tests the first requirement is an aircraft SPECT for the job Yong Jun Jie from the flight test centers test engineering department is installing the complex test sensors in another c919 the Bear cabin is totally given over to the test equipment to finish a little teensy so Mottola team to that Americans hang on T to take a multi I'm John de dagur take away Jessa staging a wage rate she sendai and tagajo a Chinese in phonology always with you in a Y and you Italian I do get you are immature the people are pingu that you went tuna to go your tiger survivor search - so no woman they see a light surgically inserted can see that is a I'm drama when powertrain and suspension of tonight show that you go take a charge topi she and you can say earlier that you go pointy my college for teaching a on your face today work item thousands of sensors have been designed and carefully installed on the plane they will give the engineers immediate data throughout the flight to complete all the air worthiness tests they need to modify at least 69 one 9s like this in all the aircraft will make nearly 3,000 test flights the fuel consumption of large passenger aircraft manufactured by China is expected to reduce by 15 percent given its advantages China has received orders for over 700 c919 the c919 can be expected to provide a strong alternative for the future global aviation market after a two-week voyage the freighter carrying the Argentina bound locomotives has reached Shanghai one of the many ports on China's East Coast the Shanghai port with a throughput of 37 million containers is the biggest [Music] Northwest of the existing port a new Wharf is being run through its operational paces in a month's time the Wharf will see its first ship it will then become the largest fully automated Wharf as recorded anywhere in the world Wong yen and his team have been preparing for four years for this important moment before that they still have two important tests to carry out scenarios without us a miracle short careers in Qaeda I see another father ts all articles only determine to saw each other yeah if you saw about the sanatorium as the commissioning date is approaching one Ian's team must be another round of tests to make sure the ghost wharf is ready for action everything is controlled by computers they will automatically operate and work with each other to move the containers 130 automatic guided vehicles or AGVs for short will move the containers around the wharf they have to avoid not just collisions but even the slightest scratch to test the reliability of the control system the engineers have arranged a special test for the AGVs they are programmed to drive in straight lines and round bends within very narrow tolerances the agb's must control their direction in accordance with the driving conditions to turn smoothly with that dealt with another key is in the offing the 130 AGVs are electric powered to minimize emissions and noise pollution [Music] but to ensure the round-the-clock operation of these vehicles that way many tons the reliability of their power supply is essential the staff and the battery replacement station are carefully observing the process of automatic battery replacement on an ATV this is the only AGV automatic battery replacement station in Asia it takes just six minutes to replace the battery [Music] by the end of the year yung-chun ports automated Wharf will usher in the world's super freighters and Shanghai ports container throughput will touch 10% of the entire world total glass curtain walls are being installed in Beijing s new airport the main building is about to be completed 40 metres below the height of the new roof the construction of another super traffic system has also entered a critical stage be Erica if I got the tiara Garvey back for sure the engineers are carrying out surveying work before laying the tracks for a railway system composed of five lines and sixteen platforms it is equivalent to the Central Station of a large city it will also house the world's first high speed railway station beneath an airport terminal it allows passengers to transfer freely quickly and conveniently among multiple transport systems but there is a problem in this ingenious plan [Music] well missing that condo they got wrong so Donna Schuurman found a loader take a funky style that couldn't you talk bungalow that song fully means yeah you got some social Ekho put on time don't go now let's try o shabbiha sure yo help wake up she don't see it so she talked out you happy this will sandbag come either pseudo the problem is to be solved by shock insulation technology young Jonah sure yo you wanna come daddy they are not watching a movie out oh no you can ignore me yeah unclean new value 1152 shock insulators will quietly support the huge terminal building [Music] multiple means of transportation are neatly integrated to give play to their respective advantages [Music] from point-to-point road traffic to water transportation for large cargoes from high speed rail to the aviation of the future new technology is allowing each means of transport to be cleaner more efficient than Hendel ever greater demands for their use [Music] [Music] China is truly being transported into a whole new era from clothing to high-speed rail trains from chips to bado satellites in this era of technology manufacturing is becoming more and more challenging we will take a look at production lines that has never been visited before to see a transformation China is experiencing please join us for the third season of China's mega projects [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 50min 3sec (3003 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 31 2019