Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 21 (Reporter Wei Hongyi) According to data released by the Ministry of Transport, since 2023, 1,700 kilometers of new high-speed railways have been built across the country, more than 7,000 kilometers of new highways including reconstruction and expansion, 1,000 kilometers of new and improved high-grade waterways, and more than 360 kilometers of new urban rail transit operating mileage, further improving the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network.
This is the news that the reporter learned from the press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the 21st to support Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development of transportation.
Li Yang, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Transport, introduced that the Ministry of Transport resolutely implements the "National Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Transportation Network Planning Outline", promotes the construction of the main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network of "6 axes, 7 corridors and 8 channels", and proposes to build a "national 123 travel traffic circle" and "global 123 fast cargo flow circle". According to statistics, by the end of 2022, the completion rate of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network was about 79%, the completion rate of the main skeleton line was about 87%, and the operating mileage of high-speed railways ranked first in the world.
The improvement of the three-dimensional transportation network is inseparable from the construction of rural roads. Wu Chungeng, director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said that in recent years, the Ministry of Transport has continued to increase subsidies for rural roads such as car purchase tax funds, and vigorously supported the construction of "four good rural roads". According to statistics, from January to November this year, the total investment in rural road construction across the country exceeded 455.5 billion yuan, the mileage of newly reconstructed rural roads exceeded 160,000 kilometers, and 327 new townships and towns with highways and above were added, providing strong support for accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
The construction of a transportation power is escorted by policies. Li Yang introduced that since 2023, the Ministry of Transport has been in close communication with many provinces, and jointly carried out the drafting and signing of ministerial and provincial cooperation agreements based on local conditions and provincial policies. In addition, through measures such as improving the implementation mechanism for accelerating the construction of a transportation power, accelerating the construction of an evaluation index system for a transportation power, further promoting the pilot project of building a transportation power, and continuously strengthening theoretical innovation and phased work summary, China's construction of a transportation power has been solidly promoted in many aspects and fields, and fruitful progress has been made.
Li Yang said that in the next step, the Ministry of Transport will focus on "networking, supplementing the network, and strengthening the chain" to accelerate the construction of a high-quality comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, including accelerating the construction of the main skeleton of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, and promoting the construction of key projects such as the national comprehensive freight hub to supplement the chain and strengthen the chain. (ENDS).