In the first half of the year, investment in fixed assets in transportation was 1.45 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.0% year-on-year.

　　The main indicators of transportation continue to recover

　　Our reporter Qi Hui

　　On July 23, the reporter learned from the press conference of the Ministry of Transport that the main indicators of transportation continued to recover in the first half of the year, especially the recovery of fixed asset investment in transportation, which has exceeded the scale of the same period last year, playing an important role in stabilizing investment and stabilizing employment. .

　　The spokesperson of the Ministry of Transport Sun Wenjian said that since the second quarter, the economy of the transportation industry has continued to recover, with three main characteristics: First, investment has recovered quickly, and transportation investment has basically made up for the gap caused by the epidemic. The investment of 1.45 trillion yuan was completed in the first half of the year. , An increase of 6.0% year-on-year. Second, freight volume continued to grow positively, freight volume and port cargo throughput rose steadily; the number of China-Europe freight trains and express business volume grew against the trend, with growth rates exceeding 25% and 20% respectively. Third, passenger traffic is recovering. In the first half of the year, the scale recovered to 45.2% of the same period last year. In June, the commercial passenger traffic in cities and inter-city commercial passenger traffic recovered to 68.8% and 56.3% of the same period last year.

Transportation investment basically fills the gap

　　"Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, transportation investment in the first quarter fell by 22.5%." Sun Wenjian said that due to the gradual implementation of various investment stabilization measures, transportation investment in the second quarter recovered quickly, with a growth rate of 21.8%. Mainly driven by highway and waterway investment, the contribution rate of highway and waterway reached 85.5%. Among them, the railway completed an investment of 325.86 billion yuan, accounting for 40.7% of the annual investment target of 800 billion yuan. The investment of highway and waterway was 1.0839 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.8%, and 60.2% of the annual investment target of 1.8 trillion yuan was completed. Civil aviation completed an investment of 40.1 billion yuan, completing 40.1% of the annual target of 100 billion yuan.

　　In the second half of the year, the Ministry of Transport will continue to focus on expanding effective investment in fixed assets, actively planning and promoting the construction of a number of major transportation projects, including the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the Beijing section of the Beijing-Xiong Expressway, and the Shenzhen-China Corridor that serve major national strategies.

　　At the same time, focusing on key tasks such as poverty alleviation in transportation, focusing on the weak links and shortcomings of transportation development, actively planning and promoting major transportation projects in deeply impoverished areas such as Lhasa to Xigaze Airport, Yibin New City to Panzhihua Expressway, and helping poor areas to alleviate poverty Tackling toughness.

　　"We will carry out research on precise assistance to market entities, study policy opinions and suggestions for further assistance, and do everything possible to protect market entities and stimulate the vitality of market entities." Sun Wenjian said.

625 key projects have been fully resumed

　　Sun Wenjian said that since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Ministry of Transport has coordinated to promote the resumption of work and production in the transportation industry. Up to now, 100% of the monitored 625 key projects have been fully resumed, and 430 new highway and waterway projects have been completed. The traction of major transportation construction projects is being effectively brought into play.

　　In terms of highway project construction, at present, highways and general national and provincial trunk highways have all resumed work. Except for the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor and the Jingxiong Expressway, all bid sections for major and mega projects such as the Jiangsu Section of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and the Shandong Section of the Beijing-Taiwan Expressway have resumed as planned, and the construction progress and investment completion are better than expected. Major projects such as the Fifth Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge and Wuxue, Qipanzhou and Baiyang Yangtze River Highway Bridge in Hubei Province will be completed within this year. In terms of waterway project construction, we will accelerate the construction of navigation facilities for the Baise Water Conservancy Project. At present, the tripartite agreement on the legal person formation of the project has been formally signed. The next step will be to start the project legal person company registration and the preliminary work of the project as soon as possible. In terms of railways, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway Yanqing Line and the Beijing-Xiong Intercity Hebei Section have made landmark progress. In terms of civil aviation, the first cargo route of Daxing Airport was opened.

Freight volume increased slightly for two consecutive months

　　Sun Wenjian introduced that since the second quarter, with the restoration of production and living order, the resumption rate of road and water transport companies has reached 98.8%, of which the resumption rates of passenger and freight companies have reached 98.1% and 99.6% respectively.

　　Freight volume achieved a slight positive growth for two consecutive months. Since the second quarter, freight volume has recovered rapidly, with continuous positive growth in May and June, with growth rates of 0.4% and 3.9% respectively. In the first half of the year, the total freight volume of the whole society was 19.87 billion tons, a year-on-year decrease of 7.8%. The number of China-Europe express trains and express business volume grew against the trend, with growth rates exceeding 25% and 20% respectively. In the first half of the year, the port cargo throughput was 6.75 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 0.6%. Among them, the second quarter increased by 5.2%, and it has maintained growth for three consecutive months since April.

　　Domestic passenger transport is gradually recovering. Although the overall commercial passenger traffic volume is still at a low level, it is coming out of the bottom, and the recovery situation presents the characteristics of "intra-city better than inter-city, domestic better than international". Among them, in terms of intra-city passenger transport, 36 central cities completed 16.95 billion public transport passengers in the first half of the year, a year-on-year decrease of 48.1%. In June, it has recovered to 68.8% of the same period last year, and the degree of recovery has increased by 37.3 percentage points from the end of the first quarter. In terms of inter-city passenger transport, 3.96 billion passenger trips were completed in the first half of the year, a year-on-year decrease of 54.8%. In June, it has recovered to 56.3% of the same period last year, and the degree of recovery has increased by 29.3 percentage points from the end of the first quarter. In addition, personalized trips such as private cars and bicycles have increased significantly.