The "quality" and "quantity" of transportation have doubled up

Qi Hui, reporter of this newspaper

During the "May Day" holiday, the news of train tickets "second light" has been on the hot search many times, showing the huge demand of the masses for travel. Not only travel, but in the first quarter transportation data released at the regular press conference recently held by the Ministry of Transport, both freight volume and public travel have shown a significant recovery trend, and port production and transportation fixed asset investment and other data have also grown steadily. Analyzing these data, there is both an effective improvement in quality and a reasonable increase in quantity, indicating that the economic operation of transportation is accelerating to restore growth.

The bright data reflects the rapid recovery of the economy

Transportation and logistics are the "artery" of national economic development, and are also closely related to the normal life guarantee of the masses. The first quarter of the transportation and logistics data is eye-catching, reflecting the rapid recovery of China's economy.

From the perspective of social logistics guarantee, the freight volume in the first quarter showed a good trend as a whole. According to data from the Ministry of Transport, the country completed a total of 118.7 billion tons of freight in the first quarter, an increase of 5% year-on-year. Among them, the freight volume of railway, road and waterway completed 12.6 billion tons, 85.7 billion tons and 20.4 billion tons respectively, an increase of 3.2%, 5.2% and 5.4% respectively year-on-year. Civil aviation completed a cargo volume of 149.269 million tons. It is particularly worth emphasizing that in the first quarter, China's postal express business volume completed 11.4 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 6%. On April 300, it exceeded 2019 billion pieces, 99 days earlier than in 2022 and 18 days earlier than in <>. The growth of these data shows that the operation of society has returned to normal and production has gradually improved; It also shows that consumption, especially online consumption, has exploded, and the people's living security and consumption level have improved.

Freight is flowing and people are moving fast. In the first quarter, the number of passenger car trips and operating passenger traffic with 9 or less expressways achieved rapid growth, with a year-on-year growth rate of more than 25%. In terms of urban passenger transport, the national urban passenger transport volume in the first quarter was 209.3 billion, which was basically the same as the same period last year. In particular, rail transit recovered rapidly, with a total of 54.25 billion passengers transported in 4 cities across the country that opened and operated rail transit in March, an increase of 2019.27% over the average monthly passenger traffic in 9 before the epidemic. During the Qingming holiday in early April, 4,2376,64 domestic tourists traveled nationwide, an increase of 22.7% over last year's Qingming Festival. During the "May Day" period, it is expected that the average daily traffic of expressways nationwide will exceed 5000 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of more than <>%, and the traffic on the first day of the holiday may break through the historical peak.

In addition, port production maintained steady growth. In the first quarter, the port cargo throughput was 38.5 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%, of which domestic trade throughput increased by 5.4% and foreign trade throughput increased by 7.8%. The container throughput reached 6973.3 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 5.<>%.

Increase investment to boost economic and social development

Transportation infrastructure has the characteristics of large scale of investment, fast implementation results, good comprehensive benefits and strong driving role, and is one of the important areas for moderately ahead of infrastructure investment, expanding domestic demand, stabilizing growth and promoting employment.

Su Jie, deputy director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Ministry of Transport, said that the transportation industry conscientiously implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, paid close attention to project reserves, fund raising and factor guarantees, and completed investment in transportation fixed assets of 7205.13 billion yuan in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 3.1136%. Among them, the railway completed investment of 6.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5889.15%; The investment in highways and waterways was 180.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9%; Civil aviation completed investment of <> billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of <>.<>%.

In order to make the investment truly in place, in March, the Ministry of Transport held a special conference to accelerate the preliminary work of the project and actively expand effective investment in transportation, and made arrangements for expanding effective investment in transportation in 3. All provincial transportation authorities took the initiative and actively acted, and successively formulated annual investment targets and tasks, and many provinces are expected to have a transportation investment scale of more than 2023 billion yuan, and transportation investment has made steady progress.

Su Jie introduced that at present, Sichuan-Tibet Railway, Guangdong Huangmaohai Cross-sea Passage, Xinjiang Wuwei Expressway Tianshan Victory Tunnel, Western Land-Sea New Passage Pinglu Canal, Changsha Huanghua Airport Reconstruction and Expansion and other projects have been accelerated, Shanghai-Wuhan Expressway Jiangsu Taicang to Changzhou section reconstruction and expansion project, Hainan Yangpu area international container hub port expansion project, Fuzhou Port Jiangyin Port Area automated terminal project and other projects have been successfully started, and a large number of major transportation projects are advancing in an orderly manner. The promotion of these projects has laid a solid foundation for ensuring the completion of the annual investment target and provided strong service support for promoting the overall improvement of economic operation.

At present, the foundation of China's economic recovery is not yet solid, and it is necessary to continue to play the important role of investment in stabilizing growth. In March this year, the Ministry of Transport issued the "Five-Year Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of a Powerful Transportation Country (3-2023)", deploying modern comprehensive transportation infrastructure construction actions, in the next few years, the transportation field will highlight the improvement of the transportation network, highlight the construction of hubs, highlight major transportation projects, optimize and improve the layout of the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, and enhance the role of transportation in promoting economic and social development.

In the first quarter of this year, the total import and export value of China's trade in goods was 9.89 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.8%. As an important mode of transportation for import and export trade, the quality of water transport infrastructure construction is very critical. To this end, the Ministry of Transport, together with relevant departments, issued the Notice on Accelerating the Reconstruction and Expansion of Coastal and Inland Port Terminals. Zheng Qingxiu, deputy director of the Water Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said that the notice requires expanding effective investment in the field of water transport, strengthening policy guarantees, etc., to accelerate the implementation of reconstruction and expansion projects, so as to provide support for expanding investment and stable growth in transportation.

Service improvement to meet the needs of a better life

The Ministry of Transport recently issued the "2023 Work Plan for Promoting New Transportation Platform Enterprises to Reduce Excessively High Commissions", proposing to promote major ride-hailing and road freight new format platform companies to reduce the excessive commission ratio or membership fee ceiling of the platform to protect the interests of new transportation format practitioners.

"Transportation is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and serves hundreds of millions of people." Ministry of Transport spokesman Shu Chi said. While improving the network and improving capabilities, the transportation department is also constantly improving the service level, focusing on the problem of "urgent, difficult and anxious", and effectively improving the sense of gain of the broad masses of the people.

Rural roads are a key area in the construction of China's transportation power, and they are also where the shortcomings lie. Gu Zhifeng, deputy director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said that the transportation department has deeply promoted the "four good rural roads" to help the five major projects of rural revitalization, and plans to complete the investment of 2800 billion yuan in fixed assets of rural highways, build and rebuild 12,9 kilometers of rural roads, add 377 townships and towns with third-level and above highways, and add 2,59 natural villages (groups) with a large population size with hardened roads. Guide all localities to do a good job in the construction of transportation infrastructure and the promotion of cash-for-work in the field of management and protection, and stabilize the number of jobs in the field of rural highway management and maintenance at more than 80,<>.

Build well, use it well. Gu Zhifeng introduced that the Ministry of Transport focuses on deepening the integrated development of urban and rural transportation and promoting the integrated development of rural roads. Orderly promote the transformation of urban and rural passenger transport or the extension of bus lines, accelerate the improvement of the construction of rural logistics systems at the county, township and village levels, further promote the integrated development of rural passengers, cargo and mail, and create a new model of rural transportation service development that is "multi-functional, multi-purpose, intensive, convenient and efficient". Promote the integrated construction of rural highways with supporting facilities, industrial parks, tourist scenic spots, and key villages for rural tourism. Strengthen the construction of charging infrastructure along rural highways, and expand the service functions of rural highway facilities.

Shu Chi said that this year, the Ministry of Transport will continue to implement 12 transportation matters closer to people's livelihood, continuously improve the quality of transportation services, and solve the problems that the people are anxious about with pragmatic and effective measures. Among them, it includes infrastructure shortcomings such as the renovation of dangerous old highways, convenience measures such as continuous improvement of age-appropriate barrier-free transportation services, and practitioner service measures such as the special action to care for truck drivers. (Economic Daily)