China News Service, September 28 (Zhongxin Finance and Economics Ge Cheng) At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Transport held on September 28, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Transport Shu Chi said that from January to August this year, traffic will be fixed. Asset investment reached 2.34 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.6%.

  Among them, the investment in railway construction was 402.8 billion yuan; the investment in highway construction was 1,768.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%; the investment in water transportation construction was 99.7 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year; the investment in civil aviation construction was 67.1 billion yuan.

From August, the fixed asset investment in transportation was 331.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%, maintaining a good growth trend.

  Shu Chi introduced that in the next step, the Ministry of Transport will continue to adhere to overall development and safety, actively expand effective investment in transportation, and provide strong support for consolidating the foundation for economic recovery and enhancing development potential.

  The first is to continue to promote the implementation of policies to be effective.

Clear blockages and difficulties in a timely manner, and coordinate to solve difficult problems.

On the basis of making good use of the policies that have been issued, we will continue to plan and improve the policy toolbox.

  The second is to speed up the improvement of the guarantee mechanism for capital elements.

Make good use of local government special bond funds and policy development financial instruments.

Give full play to the role of the coordination mechanism for the country's effective investment in important projects, and strive for more element guarantees.

Strengthen the quality and depth of the preliminary work of the project, make every effort to stabilize the construction, expand the new construction, and increase the reserve.

  The third is to carry out the construction of transportation infrastructure moderately ahead of schedule.

Give play to the leading role of major projects, focus on networking to supplement the network and strengthen the chain, and continuously improve the main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network of "6 axes, 7 corridors and 8 channels", and accelerate the construction of a modern transportation infrastructure system.

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