On July 31, the reporter learned from the regular press conference held by the Ministry of Transport that since this year, the economic operation of transportation has shown the characteristics of "continuous recovery and overall improvement". In the first half of this year, the investment in fixed assets of transportation was 1.83 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.1% over the same period last year, which provided a strong guarantee for promoting the economic recovery. Sun Wenjian, spokesman of
the Ministry of Transport and deputy director of the Policy Research Office, Li Chuanguang, deputy director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Ministry of Transport, and Guo Sheng, deputy director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, attended the press conference and answered questions from reporters.
Li Chuanguang introduced that in the first half of this year, China's freight volume continued to grow, completing 25.93 billion tons of commercial freight volume, an increase of 6.8% over the same period last year. Among them, railway, highway, waterway and civil aviation completed freight volume of 2.5 billion tons, 19.01 billion tons, 4.42 billion tons and 3.28 million tons respectively, up 0.6%, 7.5%, 7.7% and 6.4% respectively. In the first half of the year
, China completed 4.32 billion commercial passenger trips, up 56.3% year on year; 45.42 billion urban passenger trips, up 15% year on year; and 11.78 billion passenger trips on expressways, up 39% year on year. The scale has obviously exceeded the level of the same period before the epidemic.
Port cargo throughput grew rapidly, reaching 8.19 billion tons in the first half of the year, an increase of 8% over the same period last year. Among them, domestic and foreign trade throughput increased by 7.6% and 8.9% respectively. Container throughput maintained growth, completing 150 million TEUs, an increase of 4.8% over the same period last year. In the
first half of this year, China's transportation investment was running at a high level. The completed investment in railway is 304.9 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 6.9%; the completed investment in highway is 1383 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 8.9%, of which the investment in expressway, ordinary national and provincial roads and rural roads increased by 7.5%, 13.6% and 9.8% respectively; the completed investment in waterway is 93.6 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 26.7%; Civil aviation completed investment of 46.2 billion yuan, an increase of 0.2% over the same period last year. In terms of
emergency duty search and rescue, Sun Wenjian introduced that in the first half of the year, the national maritime search and rescue centers at all levels organized and coordinated 660 search and rescue operations, coordinated the dispatch of 3976 search and rescue ships and 96 aircraft; 444 search and rescue ships in distress, 4283 people in distress, of which 4152 were rescued, the success rate of search and rescue reached 96.9%.
At present, China has entered the main flood season and disaster-prone period, and the transportation system adheres to the daily and zero reporting system of safety accidents in key periods of flood season. At present, until the end of August, the Ministry of Transport will adopt the method of "four not two straight" and open and secret visits to carry out major inspections and resident inspections in 32 provincial-level regions. At the same time, we should comprehensively promote the concentrated attack on potential safety risks, carry out supervision in the fields of in-service highway bridges and tunnels, urban rail transit, dangerous cargo ports and wharfs, waterways and navigation facilities, shipping hub dams and highway and waterway engineering construction, and comprehensively use interviews, warnings and other means to consolidate the main responsibility of enterprises.
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