Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 6 million kilometers of comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network has been accelerated.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhao Wenjun and Ye Haoming.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's comprehensive transportation system has made historic achievements. By the end of 2022, the total length of the national comprehensive transportation network exceeded 6 million kilometersThe completion rate of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network is about 786%, the completion rate of the main skeleton line is about 87%.
In the past 10 years, China has built the world's largest high-speed railway network, highway network, and world-class port group, and has aviation and navigation to the world. China's high-speed rail, China Road, China Bridge, China Port, and China Express have become beautiful "Chinese business cards".
In the past 10 years, China's high-speed railways and highways have covered more than 95% of cities with a population of more than 200,000. Transportation has shortened the distance between time and space, accelerated the flow of materials and people, and provided strong support for expanding domestic demand, stabilizing growth, and ensuring people's livelihood.
This year is a year of economic recovery after three years of new crown epidemic prevention and control. The context of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network has become clearer, and the construction of a transportation power has been accelerated.
People enjoy their travel", the comprehensive transportation service is more convenient, and the 2023 Spring Festival transportation is guaranteed47300 million people, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday 220.4 billion people flowed. From January to November this year, the cross-regional flow of people (the scale of cross-regional flow of people between international, intercity, urban-rural business, tourism, etc.) was 555900 million person-times, an increase of 348%。
The transportation of key materials is smooth and efficient, and the travel service during key periods is stable and orderly. From January to November this year, the freight volume was 500200 million tons, an increase of 81%。
As a pilot major infrastructure project for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port and the creation of an international tourism consumption center, the Hainan Island Tourist Highway was opened to traffic on December 18.
In the past 10 years, China's highway mileage has increased by 1.12 million kilometers. By the end of 2022, the total mileage of highways in China has reached 5.35 million kilometers, of which 17 are expressways70,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world;The proportion of ordinary national highways of grade II and above, and the proportion of paved pavement reached 80% and 99% respectively, an increase of about 10% and 13% respectively compared with 10 years ago.
On the morning of December 18, the G8842 Fuxing train departed from Tianjin West Railway Station and headed for Beijing Daxing International Airport. Since then, the railway from Tianjin to Beijing Daxing International Airport has been officially put into operation.
To boost the construction of "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on the track", the changes in the Beijing-Tianjin intercity are the epitome of China's high-speed rail development. Over the past 10 years, the quality of railway passenger services has been upgraded, and the Fuxing EMU has covered 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, with increasingly rich transportation products, and new service measures such as online ticket purchase, e-ticketing, and seat selection have been launched, making it more convenient and comfortable for the people to travel.
Driven by the rebound of the domestic economy, China's air transport market has continued to recover steadily since the beginning of this year. In November, the civil aviation industry completed 71 cargo and mail transportation90,000 tons, recovering to 102 in the same period in 20198%, exceeding pre-pandemic levels for the fourth consecutive month.
In the past 10 years, the strategic supporting role of civil aviation transport has become more prominent. Focusing on serving the national regional development strategy, it has vigorously promoted the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Chengdu-Chongqing world-class airport cluster. The country has basically built a modern airport system composed of 10 international aviation hubs such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Xi'an, and 29 regional hubs.
Over the past 10 years, we have steadily promoted major transportation projects and accumulated momentum for high-quality development. A number of major projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway, and the Beijing Daxing Airport have been put into operation, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta and other regional transportation networks have been completed, and the construction of a number of major projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and Highway Supporting Project, the Western Land-Sea New Passage (Pinglu) Canal Project, and the North Container Terminal of Xiaoyangshan has been accelerated.
The investment in fixed assets in transportation continues to operate at a high level, providing strong service support for stabilizing investment, expanding domestic demand, stabilizing employment and ensuring people's livelihood. From January to November this year, the investment in fixed assets of transportation was completed 36 trillion yuan. Since the beginning of this year, 1,700 kilometers of new high-speed railways, more than 7,000 kilometers of newly reconstructed (expanded) expressways, more than 160,000 kilometers of newly reconstructed rural roads, 1,000 kilometers of new and improved high-grade waterways, 2 newly certified civil transport airports, and more than 360 kilometers of new urban rail transit operating mileage.
The just-concluded ** economic work conference emphasized that "it is necessary to stimulate potential consumption, expand effective investment, and form a virtuous circle in which consumption and investment promote each other" and "effectively reduce the logistics cost of the whole society".
Li Yang, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Transport, said that he will fully implement the understanding of the regularity of economic work in the new era and the overall requirements of economic work next year, go all out to ensure smooth traffic, strive to expand effective investment, promote logistics cost reduction and efficiency increase, and solidly promote the high-quality development of transportation. (ENDS).