China News Agency, Beijing, August 24 (Reporter Liu Liang) According to data disclosed by the Ministry of Transport of China on the 24th, as of the end of 2020, China's highway mileage reached 161,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world.
The Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng introduced at a press conference that day that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, transport has made historic achievements.
In terms of comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, China's national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, which is based on railways, is based on roads, and gives full play to the comparative advantages of water transportation and civil aviation, is becoming more and more perfect.
The main skeleton space of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network with six axes, seven corridors, and eight channels has been initially formed. The coverage rate of high-speed railways in cities with a population of more than one million exceeds 95%, and the coverage rate of expressways in cities with a population of more than 200,000 exceeds 98%, civil transport airports cover more than 92% of prefecture-level cities.
In terms of service capabilities, a large-capacity, high-efficiency and fast passenger transport service system based on high-speed rail and aviation has been accelerated. EMU trains have undertaken 70% of railway passenger traffic. The normal rate of civil aviation flights has exceeded 80% for three consecutive years. The upgrade is also accelerating the pace.
The freight transport structure is continuously optimized. From 2016 to 2020, the proportion of railway in freight volume will increase from 7.6% to 9.8%, and the proportion of water transport will increase from 14.5% to 16.4%.
The development of new business forms and new models is accelerating. Online taxi booking covers more than 300 cities in China, with an average daily order volume of 20 million.
The problem of road difficulties in poor areas has been solved.
Statistics show that from 2012 to 2020, more than 1.21 million kilometers of rural roads have been rebuilt in poverty-stricken areas in China, and about 70,000 organized villages have been able to access hardened roads, and more than 50,000 organized villages have been newly opened to passenger cars, realizing the conditions. All of the townships and organizational villages are connected to hardened roads and passenger cars.
The safety and green level of transportation continued to improve.
In terms of green, by the end of last year, new energy buses reached 466,000, accounting for 66.2% of the total urban buses.
The national railway electrification rate reached 74.9%, the recycling rate of highway pavement waste materials reached 95%, and the utilization rate of express recyclable transit bags reached 93.8%.
From 2012 to 2020, the number of production safety accidents and the number of deaths due to accidents in the highway and waterway industry continued to decline, with an average annual decline rate of 11.7% and 13.5%.
The supporting capacity of transportation services for economic and social development has been significantly improved. In 2020, the commercial passenger volume of the whole society will be 9.67 billion people and the commercial freight volume will be 46.44 billion tons. Among the top 10 ports in terms of global port cargo throughput and container throughput in 2020, Chinese ports account for 8 and 7 respectively. In 2020, China's inland river freight volume will be 3.8 billion tons, with a cargo turnover of 1.6 trillion ton-kilometers. The Yangtze River trunk line has become the world's busiest and largest golden waterway for inland river transportation for many years. (over)