The investment of 329.8 billion yuan was completed in August, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%——

Transportation fixed asset investment increased for five consecutive months

　　At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Transport held on September 24, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Transport Sun Wenjian said that in August, the investment in fixed assets in transportation was 329.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%.

Since the year-on-year growth rate in April turned from negative to positive, the year-on-year growth rate of fixed asset investment in transportation has exceeded 15% for five consecutive months, of which the year-on-year growth rate has exceeded 20% in May, June, and July.

The high growth rate for many consecutive months indicates that the various tasks of transportation have continued to exert their effectiveness.

Passenger volume recovered to 62.2% in the same period last year

　　High growth for five consecutive months has driven the transportation fixed asset investment to maintain a high level of operation this year.

In the first eight months of this year, the investment in fixed assets in transportation was 2,122.5 billion yuan, an increase of 10.5% year-on-year.

With the continuous advancement of the resumption of work, the road construction project has returned to normal.

As of the end of August, in addition to the resumption of 232 continued construction projects of the major highway construction projects that the Ministry of Transport focused on, 13 of the 36 planned new projects have already started.

　　As the situation of prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic continues to stabilize, passenger traffic has continued to recover, which has recovered to 62.2% of the same period last year, breaking through 60% for the first time.

In August, the commercial passenger traffic reached 980 million people, and the degree of recovery was 4.2% higher than that in July; 36 central cities across the country completed urban public transport passenger traffic of 4.24 billion people, which was restored to 75.9% of the same period last year, which was a recovery degree 7 An increase of 4.6 percentage points per month.

　　The growth rate of freight volume and port cargo throughput has also accelerated.

In terms of freight volume, in August, operating freight volume increased by 4.7% year-on-year, and the growth rate returned to the same period last year. In terms of port cargo throughput, in August, domestic and foreign trade throughput increased by 7.8% and 5.9% respectively.

Completed container throughput of 24.06 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%, an increase of 1.7% from the previous month.

　　In addition, Sun Wenjian said that the State Council executive meeting in August decided to allocate 10 billion yuan of vehicle purchase tax funds this year to support the construction of highways in the hard-hit provinces. The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance will study and determine the funding arrangements as soon as possible, focusing on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Support the restoration and reconstruction of the damaged roads in 11 severely disaster-stricken provinces including Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan, and allocate all funds to the project. A total of 4,014 national and provincial trunk lines and rural road construction projects are arranged, and the reconstruction mileage is expected to exceed 24,000 kilometers.

Reduce logistics costs in the first half of the year by more than 99 billion yuan

　　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.

Sun Wenjian said that 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 enterprise-related charges, developing multimodal transport, and improving transportation and logistics infrastructure networks. It has made every effort to reduce logistics costs and achieved positive results.

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.

　　In recent years, the Ministry of Transport has vigorously supported the development of new forms of transportation. New forms of online car-hailing, shared bicycle time-sharing, and online road freight have continued to emerge and develop rapidly, enriching the supply of transport services and improving the service experience.

Sun Wenjian revealed that at present, more than 190 platform companies have obtained operating licenses, and more than 2.5 million online car-hailing driver licenses and about 1.04 million vehicle transportation licenses have been issued in various regions. There are about 21 million orders per day.

Among the 36 central cities, 18 cities have more compliant online car-hailing than cruise cars.

Continued advancement of decentralized control services in the transportation sector

　　Sun Wenjian said that the Ministry of Transport continued to deepen the reform of “delegating control and service” in the field of transportation, focusing on supervision during and after the event, insisting on problem orientation, and formulated the "Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Transport on Strengthening and Standardizing Supervision During and After the Event" to highlight the solution In practice, the problems of “emphasis on approval and negligence of supervision”, “unable to manage, dare to manage, and unwilling to manage” have further clarified the scope of supervision, regulatory agencies, supervision methods, and supervision methods. A new type of supervision system with "open" supervision as the basic means, supplemented by key supervision, and based on credit supervision.

　　In recent years, the Ministry of Transport has made positive progress in deepening the reform of the administrative approval system and continuously optimizing the business environment.

In the field of highways and transportation, through the credit information management system of the national highway construction market, enterprise qualification licenses have realized "electronic" online processing, greatly improving the efficiency of approval.

The Ministry of Transport has also established an active service mechanism. Currently, local transportation departments have established a “one-to-one” liaison service mechanism with 284 major equipment manufacturing companies and 367 major construction projects, and the business environment has improved significantly.

(Reporter Qi Hui)