Chinanews.com, September 24. The Ministry of Transport held a regular September press conference on the 24th.

Sun Wenjian, spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport, said that in the first half of 2020, logistics costs will be reduced by more than 99 billion yuan, more than that of the whole of last year.

The Ministry of Transport will focus on improving the modern integrated transportation system, vigorously develop new industries such as new energy vehicles and ships, general aviation, strengthen innovative applications such as 5G and Beidou, accelerate the construction of smart roads, smart ports, etc., and promote new technologies such as network freight and unmanned distribution. The development of business formats and new models has created new growth momentum and investment growth points.

Data map: On September 5, the unmanned delivery vehicle was unveiled at the comprehensive exhibition area of ​​the 2020 China International Service Trade Fair.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Xinglong

  Sun Wenjian introduced that the eighth meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee held a few days ago pointed out that the formation of a safe and efficient logistics network with internal and external connections should be accelerated.

Transportation connects production and consumption and is the basic link and important support for building a modern circulation system and smoothing the national economic cycle.

  In recent years, the Ministry of Transport has strengthened inter-departmental linkages, carried out work such as reducing corporate charges, developing multimodal transport, and improving transportation and logistics infrastructure networks, and made every effort to reduce logistics costs, and achieved positive results in this regard.

Last year, the logistics cost of the whole society was reduced by 80.5 billion yuan. In the first half of this year, the logistics cost was reduced by more than 99 billion yuan, exceeding that of the whole of last year.

  Sun Wenjian said that in the next step, the Ministry of Transport will focus on improving the modern integrated transportation system, improving transportation efficiency, reducing logistics costs, improving internal quality and efficiency, and smoothing external security, and strive to be a pioneer in building a new development pattern, focusing on the following Several aspects of work:

  Optimizing a network means optimizing the layout of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network.

Speed ​​up the construction of comprehensive transportation channels, hubs and network systems, focus on promoting the construction of major projects such as the coastal and coastal cross-river and cross-sea transportation system, the new land-sea channel (Pinglu) canal in the west, and the Xiang-Gui-Gan-Yue Canal, and promote more rural roads into villages The households are inclined to enhance the traffic density and vitality in the area.

  Build a system, that is, build a modern logistics system.

Unblock mainline logistics, improve the layout of urban and rural logistics express terminal facilities, establish a sound container multimodal transport system, improve the efficiency of production and circulation resource allocation, and coordinate the construction of an international logistics supply chain system.

  Perfect a chain, that is, strengthen the upstream and downstream industrial chain.

Vigorously develop new industries such as new energy vehicles and ships, general aviation, strengthen innovative applications such as 5G and Beidou, accelerate the construction of smart roads, smart ports, etc., promote the development of new business formats and new models such as network freight and unmanned distribution, and form new growth momentum and Investment growth point.

  Deepen a series of reforms to enhance the modern governance capabilities of the industry. In-depth implementation of various tax and fee reduction measures in the transportation field, research and issuance of long-term highway construction bonds, promote the revision of the road law, toll road management regulations, and rural road regulations, and make breakthroughs in deepening the reform of railway, highway, and waterway management systems , To accelerate the formation of a unified and open transportation market.