en.Wedoany.com Reported - As the critical foundation of the "Six Networks" and the "underground lifeline" for urban operations, urban underground pipeline networks serve as key hubs connecting various networks such as water, electricity, communication, computing power, and logistics. They are also the core support for solving "urban diseases" and enhancing the quality of new urbanization. As a pioneer and leader in the domestic underground utility tunnel industry, MCC has always closely followed the national strategic layout and deeply integrated into the overall construction of the "Six Networks." Leveraging its core advantages across the entire industrial chain, independent innovation technology system, and benchmark project experience, MCC has deeply cultivated the construction of urban underground pipeline networks, breaking down barriers between various municipal pipeline networks, empowering the implementation of new infrastructure such as new power grids, next-generation communication networks, and computing power networks, and systematically addressing pain points such as fragmentation, inefficient operation and maintenance, and weak security of urban infrastructure. From the Hengqin model to nationwide expansion, and from traditional municipal upgrades to smart digital empowerment, MCC has solidified the foundation of urban underground infrastructure with meticulous engineering, injecting robust MCC strength into the integrated construction of the "Six Networks" and the quality improvement and efficiency enhancement of new urbanization.
As a core demonstration carrier of the national new urbanization strategy, the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin is a frontier for the integrated, networked, and intelligent construction of infrastructure in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. MCC proactively aligns with the high standards and requirements of the national "Six Networks" construction, based on an international perspective, focusing on integration and empowerment. Relying on its exclusive core technologies, continuous innovation capabilities, and advantages across the entire industrial chain of survey, design, construction, supervision, and operation and maintenance, MCC has built the first regional systematic underground utility tunnel project in China in Hengqin, creating a core carrier for the integrated implementation and interconnection of various municipal networks.
Since the project's launch in 2009, MCC has adhered to high-starting-point planning, high-standard construction, and high-quality implementation, anchoring to century-old engineering standards and using ultimate craftsmanship to solve construction challenges in tidal flat terrain. The project adopted a once-in-a-century flood prevention standard for design and construction, building a stable underground municipal framework on complex tidal flat geology, laying a solid hardware foundation for the integrated layout of infrastructure such as water networks, power grids, and communication networks in the Hengqin area. With a total length of 33.4 kilometers, it was the longest single-section and largest one-time investment comprehensive utility trench project in China at the time. It intensively accommodates all types of pipelines, including power, communication, water supply, reclaimed water, heating, cooling, and vacuum waste collection, completely overturning the traditional scattered direct-burial construction model, significantly saving urban land resources, achieving efficient and intensive use of underground space, and perfectly aligning with the concepts of intensification, integration, and networking.
With its ultimate construction quality and innovative construction model, the Hengqin underground utility tunnel won the first "Luban Award" and "Zhan Tianyou Award" in the domestic utility tunnel field, becoming the first systematic regional benchmark utility tunnel project in China. It effectively solved urban problems such as "road zippers," "spider webs in the air," and "chaotic pipeline networks," strengthening the urban underground safety line. In 2015, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development held a national underground utility tunnel construction work conference in Hengqin, designating the project as a national model for comprehensive promotion and organizing experts from government and enterprises of over 70 cities nationwide for on-site observation and learning. The "Hengqin Experience" officially became a universal template for the construction of urban underground pipeline networks and the coordinated layout of the six networks nationwide. The once barren island has transformed into a vibrant, smart, and ecological development hotspot in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Hengqin underground utility tunnel has become a landmark symbol of high-quality regional infrastructure development, providing a replicable and scalable practical path for cities nationwide to promote multi-network integrated construction.
As one of the earliest central enterprises to deploy underground utility tunnels in China, MCC has gathered top industry survey, design, and construction teams, possessing one-stop full-chain capabilities for utility tunnel project investment, construction, operation and maintenance, and services. It has complete technological integration and resource consolidation advantages, accumulating mature engineering experience and technical reserves for the subsequent coordinated construction of the national "Six Networks."
Closely following the national deployment for the integrated, large-scale, and standardized construction of the "Six Networks," MCC precisely anchors its strategic positioning for municipal infrastructure upgrades, incorporating underground utility tunnel construction into the core layout of new infrastructure. It leverages the entire MCC's strength to build industry benchmark brands, comprehensively supporting the networked, intelligent, and green upgrade of urban infrastructure nationwide.
Early in the industry's development, MCC proactively assumed the mission of a central enterprise, taking the lead in deployment and breakthroughs to seize strategic opportunities in national new infrastructure. It achieved three industry firsts: establishing the first specialized utility tunnel investment, construction, and operation company in China; setting up the first 100-billion-yuan-level urban utility tunnel industry fund in China; and founding the first professional utility tunnel technology research institute in China. It was also selected for the national "Mayor's Home" utility tunnel expert think tank, pioneering the construction of an integrated "investment + construction + R&D + operation and maintenance" industrial system, laying the foundation for the large-scale, industrialized, and standardized development of underground pipeline networks nationwide.
Based on its industry-leading position, MCC deeply participates in the construction of the national infrastructure standard system. Its subsidiary, MCC Jingcheng Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., was invited to lead the compilation of the national standard "Technical Standard for Operation, Maintenance and Safety of Urban Underground Utility Tunnel," and China MCC20 Group Corp., Ltd. led the compilation of the national architectural standard design atlas "Cast-in-Place Concrete Utility Tunnel" and "Prefabricated Concrete Utility Tunnel Fabrication and Construction," achieving a leap from standard executor to industry standard setter, providing technical guidelines for the standardized construction of underground pipeline networks and multi-network integration layout nationwide. Simultaneously, MCC has deeply participated in numerous national-level research projects, covering key areas such as utility tunnel cost guidance, pilot construction, pipeline entry into tunnels, and investment and financing model innovation. It has cumulatively led the compilation of over 40 national, provincial, and ministerial-level and industry standards and specifications, and won 10 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology progress awards, solidifying the standard foundation and technical support for the coordinated construction of the "Six Networks" with robust technical strength.
Relying on its technological advantages and brand strength, MCC has successively reached strategic cooperation with over 30 key cities, including Shenzhen, Nanjing, Hefei, Xi'an, and Kunming, implementing a number of benchmark utility tunnel projects. It deeply integrates the new infrastructure concepts of green low-carbon, smart empowerment, and ecological livability, deeply merging underground pipeline network construction with sponge city, smart municipal, and ecological governance, fully adapting to the digital, green, and interconnected construction requirements of the "Six Networks." Among them, China MCC17 Group Co., Ltd. undertook the largest underground smart utility tunnel project in Xi'an, solidifying the multi-network integration foundation for northwestern cities; MCC Jingcheng built the first smart utility tunnel project in China in the Dianzhong New Area of Yunnan, selected as a Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development science and technology demonstration project; China MCC20 Group implemented a comprehensive municipal benchmark project in Shenzhen integrating utility tunnels, sponge city, smart municipal, and river management; multiple subsidiaries such as China MCC1 Group, MCC Saidi, and MCC South have deeply cultivated many regions across the country, implementing a batch of high-quality underground pipeline network projects in cities like Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Lanzhou, and Nanchang, forming a construction pattern of multiple points blooming and nationwide advancement, comprehensively helping various regions improve their modern infrastructure networks.
Based on the major national strategic deployment to improve the quality of new urbanization and promote the modern layout of the "Six Networks," MCC proactively shoulders the responsibility of a central enterprise. With a world vision, international standards, Chinese characteristics, and high positioning, it deeply engages in the construction of national-level benchmark new areas, empowering future city construction with smart underground pipeline networks and exploring new paths for high-quality development of infrastructure in the new era.
In the construction of the Xiong'an New Area, a millennium plan and national event, MCC undertook the underground utility tunnel project in the Rongdong area. As the "first bid" for the new area's municipal infrastructure, this project is the core carrier for the integrated implementation of Xiong'an's "Six Networks" and a key hub for the future urban underground three-dimensional network. During the project's construction, MCC fully applied internationally leading construction techniques and intelligent construction technologies, pioneering the integration of new-generation information technologies such as 5G transmission, artificial intelligence, intelligent sensing, and smart decision-making into utility tunnel construction and operation and maintenance. It established a full lifecycle BIM digital management and control system, achieving digital and intelligent management and control of the entire process from planning, design, and construction to operation and maintenance. Through smart transformation, the project perfectly adapts to the implementation needs of new-generation communication networks, computing power networks, new power grids, and logistics networks, achieving intelligent monitoring, efficient operation and maintenance, and safe and controllable management of various pipelines, fundamentally solving the pain points of traditional urban infrastructure.
With its benchmark quality and innovative model, the Xiong'an utility tunnel project has hosted over 400 national-level observation and inspection visits, becoming a demonstration window for national new smart infrastructure and six-network coordinated construction. Now, the project is completed. The Xiong'an New Area, with its three-dimensional development pattern of "a city above ground, a city underground, and a city in the cloud," has bid farewell to urban diseases such as "spider webs in the air" and "road zippers." The reserved underground logistics channels provide ample space for the future construction of smart urban logistics networks and unmanned delivery systems, perfectly aligning with the national development goals of long-term layout, interconnection, and iterative upgrading of the "Six Networks."
From its start in Hengqin to deep cultivation nationwide, and from traditional infrastructure upgrades to smart six-network integration, MCC has always closely followed the national strategic pace over the years, continuously deepening its efforts in the core track of urban underground pipeline networks. In the future, MCC will continue to anchor the overall deployment of the national "Six Networks" construction, relying on its full industrial chain advantages and core technological accumulation. It will persistently tackle key areas of smart utility tunnels, multi-network integration, and green infrastructure, continuously setting new benchmarks in infrastructure construction, steadily enhancing urban comprehensive carrying capacity and safety resilience, and contributing more MCC strength to the integrated, networked, and intelligent high-quality development of national infrastructure and the quality improvement and efficiency enhancement of new urbanization.
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