The site of the regular press conference of the Ministry of Transport in June.
China News Service Client Beijing, June 23 (Reporter Cheng Chunyu) On the 23rd, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport that the fixed asset investment in transportation in the first five months of the year has achieved positive growth year-on-year, which is the first time this year that the cumulative growth rate has achieved growth.
Sun Wenjian, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transport, said that this shows that the transportation investment gap caused by the epidemic has been initially filled.
According to Sun Wenjian, from January to May, investment in fixed assets of transportation was 1022.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.9%. Among them, in May, the investment in transportation fixed assets was 343.3 billion yuan, an increase of 27.0% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 8.9 percentage points faster than that in April.
"The main areas of the transportation industry have all been resumed." Sun Wenjian said that as of June 22, the resumption rate of key projects under construction reached 99.84%. The resumption rate of highway and water transport enterprises reached 98.7%, of which the resumption rate of passenger and freight companies reached 98.0% and 99.6% respectively.
At the same time, freight operations continued to pick up. In May, the commercial freight volume of highways and waterways was 4.07 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 0.3%. Completed 7.38 billion pieces of postal express business, a year-on-year increase of 41.1%. The port cargo throughput completed 1.26 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.4%, and the growth rate continued to rebound.
Sun Wenjian also said that the recovery of commercial passenger traffic is more than half. In May, it completed 740 million passenger traffic, which was restored to 50.7% of the same period last year, and the degree of recovery increased by 10.9 percentage points from April; 36 central cities nationwide completed 3.52 billion public transport passenger traffic, which was restored to 60.9 in the same period last year. %. (Finish)