On July 28th, at the Chuzhou East Toll Station in Anhui Province, vehicles from all over the country passed smoothly and flowed endlessly.
Chuzhou, located in eastern Anhui and adjacent to Nanjing, is one of the important manufacturing bases in the Yangtze River Delta.
Chuzhou East Toll Station is an important crossing for vehicles from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to come to Chu through the expressway.
In early April this year, due to the long inspection process affected by the epidemic, vehicle traffic slowed down.
With the implementation of the policy of ensuring smooth access, the traffic efficiency of the Chuzhou East Toll Station has been greatly improved, and the traffic flow has steadily recovered.
The data shows that from April 1 to April 15, the traffic volume of this high-speed exit was 15,185, and the traffic volume rose to 20,824 in the same period in June.
"In the early stage of May, the suppressed freight demand was released in a concentrated manner, and the traffic volume rebounded sharply. It is currently rising steadily." said Guan Xudong, deputy head of the Chuzhou East Toll Station.
Transportation and logistics is the meridian of the market economy and an important support for people's livelihood security.
Since March this year, under the influence of multiple factors, the transportation and logistics in some places have been greatly affected.
With the joint efforts of various regions and departments, a series of policies to ensure smooth logistics have been intensively introduced and implemented.
On May 10, highway toll stations and service areas were closed and closed nationwide, and the traffic volume of expressway trucks reached 7.213 million, an increase of 25.66% compared with April 10.
On July 26, 7,326,800 trucks passed through national highways.
Road transportation is responsible for more than 70% of the freight volume of the whole society and is an important channel supporting economic and social development.
From spring to summer, the trajectories of freight vehicles recorded by satellites became denser, and Chinese trucks sped up.
In satellite positioning and navigation systems, every running freight vehicle leaves a trail of geographic coordinates.
They weave and merge into a gorgeous net, connecting the national economy and people's livelihood in road transportation.
This is a comparison chart of the satellite positioning data of freight vehicles of nearly 30,000 small and micro logistics enterprises.
The actual number of freight lines operating on June 10 was 189% of that on April 8.
Long-span long lines have increased significantly, and the freight line network is more dense under the superposition, which means that with the opening of traffic jams, more cross-regional freight orders are generated.
The truck driver Hou Qinghua clearly felt this change.
He drives a truck he bought with a loan, and often runs the route from Ma'anshan, Anhui Province, to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
"In April, the toll gates were often blocked." Hou Qinghua said that there were few orders at that time, and the car loan had to be repaid every month. "I'm really anxious." In early June, Hou Qinghua read the news and said that there was a delay in repaying the loan. Policy, I went through the application process with the idea of trying it out, and soon received a text message notification that the application was successful, and the loan repayment could be deferred for 6 months.
"I feel that since the first ten days of May, driving on the highway has become much smoother." Hou Qinghua said that the traffic is smooth, the logistics orders will naturally be more, and his income will "rise."
The smooth flow of logistics is crucial to the accelerated recovery of the industrial chain and supply chain.
In the first half of this year, due to the impact of poor supply chain and logistics, Chery Automobile was blocked for a time, and the delivery cycle was extended from an average of 5 days to more than 7 days.
"At present, the logistics cycle has returned to a normal level. With the continuous recovery of vehicle production capacity, production and sales are booming," said Zhang Chaohua, director of the vehicle logistics department of Chery's planned logistics center.
From a satellite perspective, in Wuhu City, Anhui Province, where Chery Automobile is located, thousands of cars are neatly parked in the cargo yard of Zhujiaqiao International Container Terminal in Wuhu Port, and these vehicles will be transported to many places around the world; Wuhu Changchang Logistics Co., Ltd. on Anshan Road parks In the field, one after another large trucks lined up to enter, waiting to be loaded with Chery vehicles and shipped to all parts of the country.
Vehicles are neatly parked in the cargo yard of Zhujiaqiao International Container Terminal in Wuhu Port, Anhui Province.
With the continuous progress of resumption of work and production, the demand for production and consumption continues to release, and the demand for freight logistics further increases.
According to data from the logistics technology platform "Banmara Technology", from the end of March to the beginning of April, the volume of weekly freight orders declined significantly, and since mid-April, the volume of freight orders has gradually rebounded and stabilized.
Changes in weekly freight order volume monitored by Zebra Technology.
From roads to railways, from ports to airports, the busy scene has released a positive signal that the transportation and logistics industry is accelerating its recovery.
"Generally speaking, in the first half of the year, with the joint efforts of all parties, with the implementation of various measures to ensure smooth logistics, the main indicators of transportation have gradually recovered after experiencing short-term fluctuations in April, especially the basic freight volume. It has recovered to the level of the same period last year, the port's foreign trade container throughput has maintained growth, and the overall traffic investment and express business volume have returned to the normal development track." Ministry of Transport spokesman Shu Chi said at a regular press conference on July 28.
Reporters: Zhang Ziyun, Hu Rui, Wu Huijun
Remote Sensing and Data Technology: Zhang Xiaoxue, Gu Ning, Liu Xinyu, Guo Chao
Xinhua News Agency New Media Center
State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and System
Xinhua News Agency Anhui Branch
Joint production
Technical support: Xinhua News Agency Satellite News Laboratory, High-resolution Earth Observation System Anhui Data and Application Center