"liuheng - Ningbo Bridge" Benefit Analysis

The 21^st century is the era for ocean economy. Zhejiang is a coastal province, and it's a move of great significance put forward by the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial government based on Zhejiang reality to accelerate the ocean economy and to construct a strong ocean-based province, and it's also the important content of "Eighty-eight Strategies".Zhoushan is situated in the front part of the Changjiang Delta Area. Liuheng is the third largest island of Zhoushan, which possesses obvious place advantages, being rich in deep coastal resources and natural conditions for developing ports and harbours. It's of great significance to quicken developing the basic communications facilities of Liuheng Island, to develop port industry with harbour construction as the herald, to improve and deepen the strategy of 'prosper island with port', and to join aggressively with Ningbo and Shanghai melting into Hangzhou Bay so as to realize resource sharing, connection of island and mainland and mutual complementary, which will promote the economic development of Putuo and Liuheng areas. The bridge project of Liuheng is one of the 'three links' in 'Zhoushan Communications Construction Project of Highways and Waterways 2003-2010', the framework of which is 'one stem, two rings, three links, four verticals'. It's also one of the two links in 'Liuheng Island Communications Project of Putuo District of Zhoushan 2004-2010', the highway network of which is 'one ring, two links, four horizontals', that is, the cross-sea bridge from Liuheng Island through Foudu Island to Meishan Island. According to the Ningbo highway network planning, the project of Beilun Meishan Bridge, which is the main channel between Meishan Island and Chuanshan Peninsula, will be connected to Sugang highway of the Xiangshan Bay as planned. This will lay a sound foundation for Liuheng Island joining with Ningbo, Hangzhou, Shanghai and even the Changjiang Delta Area.The Liuheng Bridge Project is another component of Zhoushan South-to-North Islands Connecting Project, which has been listed in the 'Zhoushan Communications Construction Project of Highways and Waterways 2003-2010' and 'Liuheng Island Communications Project of Putuo District of Zhoushan 2004-2010'. This paper makes a prediction and evaluation of the social and economic benefits from the project and thereafter concludes the necessity of implementing the project.Prediction and evaluation are the premise and gist in making investment strategies. Through prediction and evaluation of the new investing project, the government or the enterprise can be provided with scientific basis for making investing strategies and make a proper estimation of the social and economic benefits from the project so as to reduce subjectivity and blindness in the course of making investing strategies. This paper, according to the initial planof Liuheng Bridge including the construction conditions, technical standards, construction scale and investment involvement, can be divided into three parts, which are, firstly to investigate and make a research on the present situations and developing tendency of social economy and communications in the areas affected by the project; secondly to make an analysis of the transportation volume in the areas affected by the bridge; thirdly, to make an evaluation of the national economy, and to demonstrate the necessity and imperativeness of the project construction.