钮海津：卷首语（《Let′s go·粤港直通》2009年12月刊）

速度生活

在英国苏格兰的帕帕韦斯特岛上，只有七十名居民，这里没有中学。有六名中学生每周要乘飞机到附近的奥克尼岛上学。这条航线长约1.6公里，飞行时间96秒；如果遇到合适风向，只需飞行47秒。

只需飞行47秒！我不知道这些孩子上了飞机后有空做肢体动作否，总之我在看这段文字时，刹间有一种“一启动即抵达”的速度感觉：爽并快乐着。

生活在广九线上，我们每天与速度共生。《Let’s  go·粤港直通》的编辑运营中心就在广州火车东站的楼上，每天都有同事往返东莞、深圳、香港。广州去东莞列车行程仅三十五分钟，去深圳五十二分钟，去香港一小时四十分钟就搞定。当年香港还是英殖民地时，我的父亲提着书蓝行李从香港新闻学院到广州报馆见习，由香港尖沙咀站到广州大沙头站，一趟单程竟费时十个小时，那个叫：累并折腾着。

珠三角这边有一句直言不讳的日用语，“时间就是金钱”。近二三十年来，本地政府与百姓实打实地埋头作业———2012年要把广州建成珠江三角洲城市群一小时生活圈的核心。这里，我将其简称之“速度生活-1”，以示我们珠江三角洲城市群间的往来速度：在三十年前是“速度生活-6”（六小时车程），二十年前是“速度生活-4”（四小时车程），十年前是“速度生活-3”（三小时车程），至2012年将提速至“速度生活-1”（一小时车程）。

珠三角若以广州为中界，东片城市群有东莞、深圳、惠州。广州东站目前到深圳最快是五十分钟，而且密度很高。目前在建的广州到东莞及深圳的客运专线，今后广州到深圳只需三四十分钟，广州到东莞只需约二十分钟，这条广深港铁路广深路段有望在2010年7月全线开通；西片城市群则是佛山、肇庆、中山、江门、珠海。广州到珠海的城际轨道交通是从广州新客站出发的，现在正在建设当中，它还有一条支线到江门、中山。今后广州到珠海、中山、江门，一个小时就可以抵达。由于南宁到广州的线路（2011年建成）和贵阳到广州的线路（2012年建成）都在佛山和肇庆设站，因此，两年后即可实现广州与珠三角城市群“一小时生活圈”。

这里提出一个问题，提速的意义在哪里。我的认识是，建设资源节约型线路，省钱省时，提高效率，延长人生时光。建设资源节约型线路，其要义是以最小的资源消耗来实现最优化的商务往来形态；其核心就是极大提高线路资源的利用效率。拿武广客运列车说吧，这条专线将于本月20日全线建成通车。按规划，武广列车时速可达350公里。届时，首富许家印先生或可在广州早茶合议、长沙会客办事、武汉谈判签约、广州宵夜庆功，一天搞定一两单生意。大老板尚且有这“飞一般感觉” 的商旅效率，更遑论小老板们在珠三角城市群连轴扫货抑或铺货了。

执行总编辑 钮海津

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Preface for Dec. 2009 Edition

Speedy Life

There are only 70 residents on the Papa Westray Island of Scotland, UK. Without a middle school here, the six middle school students have to fly to the nearby Orkney Island for school every week. The air line is about 1.6 kilometers long and takes 96 seconds. With favorable wind, it takes only 47 seconds.

47 seconds! I wonder if these children even gesture on board. However, while reading this paragraph, the feeling of “arrival upon start”about speed suddenly strikes me as cool and happy.

We live along with speed on the Canton-Kowloon Line. The editing and operating center of Let’s Go·粤港直通Magazine is located in the building of Guangzhou East Station. Everyday I have colleagues travelling to and from Dongguan, Shenzhen or Hong Kong. It takes only 35 minutes by train to Dongguan from Guangzhou, 52 minutes to Shenzhen and one hour 40 minutes to Hong Kong. When Hong Kong was still a British colony, my father went to Guangzhou Press on probation from Hong Kong News Institute with a book case and luggage. The single journey from Tsim Sha Tsui Station,Hong Kong to Dashatou Station, Guangzhou took as long as ten hours, exhausting and tedious.

A straightforward saying goes in the Pearl River Delta region that time is money.  In the past more than two decades, the local government and people have been working hard in a down-to-earth manner to build Guangzhou into the center of the one-hour city agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta region by 2012. We hereby call it “Speedy Life -1”for short, indicating the time needed (one-hour) to travel between these cities, in contrary to “Speedy Life-6”(six hours drive) three decades ago, “Speedy Life-4”(four hours drive) two decades ago and “Speedy Life-3”(three hours drive) one decade ago.

To the east of Guangzhou, center of the Pearl River Delta, are the city agglomeration including Dongguan, Shenzhen and Huizhou. There are highly frequent trains between Guangzhou East Station and Shenzhen, the fastest of which takes only 50 minutes. The Guangzhou-Dongguan-Shenzhen express passenger railway, being under construction as part of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong express railway, is expected to commence operation by July 2010. Then it will take only less than 40 minutes to travel from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, about 20 minutes from Guangzhou to Dongguan. To the west of Guangzhou are Foshan, Zhaoqing, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Zhuhai. The rail link between Guangzhou and Zhuhai which starts from Guangzhou New Station is still being built with a feeder line extending to Jiangmen and Zhongshan. In the future we can get to Zhuhai, Zhongshan or Jiangmen in one hour from Guangzhou. The railways between Nanning and Guangzhou and between Guiyang and Guangzhou, which will be completed by 2011 and 2012, respectively, both set up stations in Foshan and Zhaoqing, thus the “One-hour-life-circle” will definitely come true between Guangzhou and the rest part of the the Pearl River Delta in two years.

A question is raised: what is the meaning of speed-up? In my opinion, building resource-saving railways helps to save money and time, improve efficiency and extend our life. Building resource-saving railwas is meant to best optimize business contacts with the minimum consumption of resources, the key being greatly improving the utilization efficiency of railway resources. Take Wuhan-Guangzhou express railway, which will be completed and open to traffic in December this year, for example. With a planned speed of 350 kph, the line will make it possible for the richest tycoon Mr. Xu Jiayin to have a conference over morninig tea in Guangzhou, meet customers in Changsha, hold talks and sign agreements in Wuhan and have a midnight meal in Guangzhou to celebrate the business success achieved that day. While tycoons can have such business efficiency as fast as a “flight”, medium-to-small bosses will also be tremendously benefited when expanding their businesses in the Pearl River Delta metropolises. .( CNX：niu haijin)