80 major projects opened to the public

Du Xidong, deputy secretary-general of the China Port Association, said that the National Development and Reform Commission has announced 80 projects that encourage social investment. "State-owned enterprises are not competitive in many investment areas."

Du Yudong once investigated some ports in Jiangsu Province. He found that the port container cranes invested by a state-owned enterprise cost 40 to 40 million yuan. But not far away, the port container cranes invested by private-owned enterprises only used 3.5 million.

On May 21st, the National Development and Reform Commission announced 80 projects including the first batch of infrastructure and other areas to encourage social investment projects, including 24 transportation infrastructure projects, 10 oil and gas pipeline networks and gas storage facilities, and 8 modern coal chemical and petrochemical projects. Industrial base project, 36 clean energy projects, 2 information infrastructure projects.

Of the 46 specific projects that have been announced, it is estimated that the investment will reach 700 billion yuan. In addition, 30 distributed photovoltaic large-scale application demonstration areas will be estimated to have 200 billion yuan according to estimates of experts, and then consider four projects for which no specific figures have been announced. Investment may reach around RMB 1 trillion.

However, such a large amount of investment cannot be quickly landed.

For example, in the past, people's capital had entered such as ports and highways, so it was easy to actually accelerate investment. But it is not easy like railways, photovoltaics, etc.

Total investment is nearly trillion

The reporter sorted out the 80 social capital investment projects announced by the National Development and Reform Commission and found that investments in railways, clean energy, and modern coal chemical industries are huge.

Among them, there are 5 railways, with a total investment of 228.92 billion yuan. Together with investment in ports and highways, the total investment in transportation is more than 3100 billion yuan. The modern coal chemical and petrochemical industrial base has 8 projects with a total investment of 219.85 billion. There are 9 projects for oil and gas pipeline networks and gas storage facilities with a total investment of 116.53 billion.

There are 2 wind power stations with a total investment of 67.9 billion. 30 photovoltaic power generation projects have not been announced, and the Secretary-General of the China Renewable Energy Society, Meng Xianyi, estimates that it may have to invest more than 200 billion yuan.

The above total amounts to more than 900 billion yuan, not including existing oil pipeline safety hidden trouble reconstruction projects, existing natural gas pipeline network reconstruction projects, China Petroleum and Shaan 224 underground gas storage project, CNPC Jintan underground gas storage phase II project. In this way, the total investment of 80 projects will be around trillion, but these figures may also be rewritten in the future.

The largest of the above projects is the Mongolian-Chinese railway investment. The total length of the coal line from Mengxi to Central China is 1817.2 kilometers. The National Development and Reform Commission estimates that the total investment is about 150 billion yuan. There are also some projects with relatively large investments. For example, the first phase of Fujian Gulei petrochemical industrial base project was 93 billion yuan, and the total investment of the middle section of the West-East Gas Pipeline III project was 44.6 billion yuan. Beijing Metro Line 16 is expected to invest 36.6 billion yuan, Shenzhen Metro Line 6 will invest 16.3 billion. The second phase of the Hami Wind Power Base project has a total investment of 60.2 billion yuan.

The National Development and Reform Commission emphasized that the first 80 projects to encourage the participation of social capital in infrastructure and other fields encouraged and attracted social capital, especially private investment, to participate in the construction and operation of joint ventures, sole proprietorships and franchising operations.

Railway and photovoltaic power generation is the most difficult

However, not all of the above projects can be easily successful. Du Weidong, deputy secretary-general of the China Port Association, pointed out that if it is a point project, relative investment is easier, such as port investment, but cross-regional may be difficult.

The 21st Century Business Herald learned that among the above 80 projects, railways, for example, involve problems that span across many provinces. This is due to the fact that it involves the operation of China National Railway Corporation.

From the perspective of the coal transshipment project determined by Mengxi to central China, the total length is 1817.2 kilometers, spanning Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi. At present, the project owner Mengxi Huazhong Railway Co., Ltd. decided to be located in Yan'an and Henan, Shaanxi Province. Sanmenxia, ​​Xiangyang in Hubei and Yueyang in Hunan are divided into the headquarters of Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hubei, and Hunan.

From Changchun (Kai'an) to Xi'an Yanhua Railway, both ends are connected to the Changjitu Development and Opening Pilot Zone and Mengdong Coal Base, respectively. It is a regional railroad that focuses on coal transportation and takes into consideration other freight and passenger transport along the route.

Xing Lei, a professor at the China Coal Economic Research Institute of Central University of Finance and Economics, believes that if it is a closed railway, such as the Daqin Line, it does not need to be settled with the national railway network. This will make it easier for the people to enter.

However, since the Mongolia-China Railway is a multi-provincial province, it is impossible to close it. The China Railway Corporation needs a unified schedule. This settlement will consider balancing the losses of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and so on, so that the simple profitability of the Mongolia-China Railway will be problematic.

“Current coal prices in the country are declining and demand is insufficient. The profitability of this route is not as good as it was imagined in previous years,” he said.

Some experts say that the introduction of private capital is easier for specific projects such as ports, highways, and petrochemicals. However, such problems as wind power and photovoltaic power generation involve channel problems, which are difficult.

Building a power station on top of a house involves complex issues of property rights. For example, how to divide the returns, how to do maintenance, etc., are more complicated.

The construction of UHV transmission lines is not enough. Therefore, although there are abundant photovoltaic resources in the northwest and southwest, it is necessary to wait until around 2018 to build a good channel, so that the photovoltaic power plants in these areas cannot be built on a large scale.

China’s Renewable Energy Society’s secretary-general Meng Xian’e believes that this year's new PV installations will reach 8 million kilowatts and investment will be around 100 billion. The entire 12th Five-Year Plan will be around 400 billion. "But the problem of photovoltaic power generation is that it is difficult to use it for its own sake. There is no channel for output, so private capital has money, but investment in the photovoltaic industry remains uncertain."