(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) Chinese Ministry of Transport: 27 provinces have resumed inter-provincial passenger routes or chartered cars
China News Agency, Beijing, February 25 (Reporter Li Yanan) Fan Zhenyu, deputy director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Ministry of Transport of China, said in Beijing on the 25th that road transport and urban public transport are being restored in an orderly manner. As of the 24th, 27 provinces have been restored. Inter-provincial passenger routes or chartered cars.
At the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held on the same day, Fan Zhenyu said that according to the deployment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, the transportation industry actively cooperates with public security and other relevant departments to implement differentiated policies in accordance with the degree of risk in different regions to ensure road safety. The network is running smoothly and road transportation and urban public transportation are being restored in an orderly manner.
Judging from the operation of the road network, the current national road traffic volume has rebounded significantly. In the third week of the month (February 16 to 22), the passenger and truck traffic on the expressway reached 63.44 million and 22.25 million, respectively, an increase of 95.4% and 136% from the previous week. The cross-section traffic volume of passenger and trucks on provincial roads in ordinary countries increased by 37.2% and 27.7% respectively from the previous week. "From the past two days, this growth momentum has continued."
From the perspective of road passenger transportation, as of February 24, 27 provinces have resumed passenger transport routes or chartered cars in inter-provincial provinces, especially in 26 provinces such as Zhejiang and Fujian. In the premise of ensuring that epidemic prevention and control is in place, they have done so in an orderly manner. The organization of transportation for migrant workers to return to work has been well organized. Since the Spring Festival, a total of 477,000 migrant workers have been transported.
From the perspective of urban public transportation, as of February 24, 115 prefecture-level cities and 158 county-level cities have resumed ground buses, and 505 cities have continued to provide ground bus services, accounting for 71.3% of all cities. The rail transportation in 35 cities is operating normally, and on the premise of good epidemic prevention and control, it is satisfying the travel needs of residents as much as possible.
Fan Zhenyu also said that in order to prevent and control the epidemic situation, transportation departments at all levels throughout the country cooperated with local health and health departments to set up health and quarantine stations at the borders of highways, service areas, entrances and exits, trunk roads, passenger terminals, and passenger terminals of ordinary countries. "As of February 24, there were about 17,000 locations nationwide on February 20, a reduction of about 9,000, and about 8,000 health and quarantine stations to carry out epidemic prevention and control." (End)