China News Service, May 19th, Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng said on the 19th that with the approval of the State Council, the toll roads during the Spring Festival this year extended the free passage policy three times, from February 17th to May 5th. Expressway tolls of more than 159 billion yuan fully support epidemic prevention and control and resumption of production.

Data Map: Vehicles pass through the Gongjialing toll station in Wu'e Expressway in an orderly manner. Photo by Hu Chuanlin

  The State Council Office held a press conference on the morning of the 19th. Relevant persons in charge of the Ministry of Transport introduced the situation of accelerating the construction of a powerful transportation country and promoting the high-quality development of the transportation industry.

  Li Xiaopeng said that in combating the epidemic, the Ministry of Transport has tried its best to stop the spread of the virus through transportation, made decisive "three breaks, three constant" deployments, and launched the "Seven Express" railway, "Three No One Priority", and water transportation. "Four Priorities", civil aviation passenger transport "reduction and continuous" freight "transportation docking" and postal "green channel" and other policy measures. More than 40 million cadres and employees in the transportation system are struggling to fight the epidemic every day.

  Li Xiaopeng said that the Ministry of Transport will make every effort to ensure emergency transportation, arrange special planes, special trains and special vehicles to ensure that more than 43,000 medical personnel will assist Wuhan and Hubei. A logistics office has been set up, running 24 hours, one case at a time, accumulating more than 1.5 million tons of epidemic prevention and living materials and more than 2.9 million tons of production materials.

  In addition, we made every effort to guarantee the return of the wrong peak during the Spring Festival transportation, and accumulated more than 190,000 “point-to-point” migrant workers ’chartered vehicles, more than 400 special railway lines and more than 1,500 chartered cars, and more than 570 civil aviation charter flights. people.