Highlight the work of stable growth, smooth and stable market entities (authoritative interview)
——Interview with Xu Chengguang, member of the party group and chief planner of the Ministry of Transport
Our reporter Liu Zhiqiang
Transportation is the basic, leading, strategic industry and important service industry of the national economy.
Since the beginning of this year, while my country's transportation economy has been running smoothly, it has also faced difficulties and challenges such as shrinking demand and poor logistics.
How to look at the current situation, how to do a good job in ensuring the smooth flow of logistics, and promote the smooth operation of the transportation economy?
The reporter interviewed Xu Chengguang, a member of the party group and chief planner of the Ministry of Transport.
The transportation economy started smoothly and made every effort to achieve the annual tasks and goals
Reporter: In the first quarter of this year, how is my country's transportation economy operating?
What are the next policy considerations?
Xu Chengguang: Since the beginning of this year, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, the Ministry of Transport has insisted on maintaining stability and seeking progress while coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development, so as to promote the overall smooth operation of the transportation economy in the first quarter. start.
Mainly reflected in the "three stability": First, the stability of freight.
Freight is the basic support for factor circulation.
In the first quarter, the freight volume of the whole society increased by 1.5% year-on-year, maintaining a steady growth trend, which shows that my country's economic operation is generally stable.
Second, the port is stable.
The port undertakes more than 90% of my country's foreign trade cargo transportation.
In the first quarter, the national port cargo throughput increased by 1.6% year-on-year, of which container throughput increased by 2.4%, an acceleration of 2.3 percentage points. Continue to optimize.
The third is stable investment.
In the first quarter, investment in transportation fixed assets increased by 9.8% year-on-year, nearly 6 percentage points faster than that of last year, and continued to maintain a high level, providing strong support for stable growth.
At the same time, it should be noted that at present, the complexity, severity and uncertainty of my country's economic development environment are increasing, which has a great impact on transportation. Some indicators of the industry fluctuate. face new challenges.
In the next step, the Ministry of Transport will, in accordance with the requirements of "preventing the epidemic, stabilizing the economy, and developing safely", will use the power of the entire industry to do a good job in safety production and stability, and do a good job of normal transportation without slackening. In order to prevent and control the epidemic, we will place more emphasis on stabilizing growth, ensuring smooth flow, and stabilizing market players.
Focus on the following aspects:
First, actively expand effective investment in transportation.
Give full play to the advantages of high investment in transportation infrastructure and obvious radiation and driving effects, increase policy reserves, and carry out transportation infrastructure construction in a moderately advanced manner. Focus on improving the main skeleton of the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, accurately complementing the shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, coordinating the promotion of transportation projects involved in 102 major national projects, and striving to create more physical workloads and create more jobs.
The second is to strengthen logistics security.
Give full play to the role of the State Council Leading Group Office of Logistics Guarantee and Unblocking, focus on logistics jam points, pay close attention to key areas, key enterprises, key problems and people's livelihood guarantee, make every effort to open up major arteries and smooth microcirculation, and effectively guarantee the logistics chain supply chain Stable and smooth.
The third is to promote the relief of difficulties for enterprises.
Actively guide and help transportation enterprises to enjoy and make good use of the national support policies, speed up the construction of a unified and open transportation market, make every effort to achieve the annual tasks and goals, and take practical actions to welcome the victory of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The country's major transportation arteries are basically open, and the logistics microcirculation is gradually improving
Reporter: How is the progress of the logistics guarantee work in the near future, and what measures will the Ministry of Transport take?
Xu Chengguang: Transportation and logistics are the meridians of the market economy and an important support for people's livelihood.
In the first quarter of this year, my country's logistics operations were generally stable.
However, since late March, the epidemic has been numerous, widespread and frequent, and some places have encountered problems such as blocked traffic, stranded vehicles, and poor logistics.
The Ministry of Transport conscientiously implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and, in conjunction with relevant departments and localities, focuses on outstanding issues, strengthens overall coordination, implements wall chart operations, and strengthens supervision and implementation.
Thanks to the joint efforts of all parties, the major transportation arteries across the country have been basically opened up, the logistics microcirculation has gradually improved, the national expressway traffic has steadily increased, the main transport capacity indicators have steadily improved, and the operating conditions of key hubs have gradually improved.
According to our daily dispatch and monitoring, there are still some places where the implementation of key policies is not in place. The epidemic prevention checkpoints set up illegally on national and provincial trunk lines and rural roads have not been "should be removed". Vehicle passes and nucleic acid test certificates are in some areas. Mutual recognition has not yet been achieved. In some places, there are still problems such as mandatory yellow codes for truck drivers and "one-size-fits-all" persuasion to return. The problem of poor microcirculation at the end of cities in key epidemic prevention and control areas, especially the "last 100 meters", still exists. exist.
In the next step, we will make every effort to consolidate the achievements of the stage, mobilize the forces of all parties, and do a good job in ensuring the smooth flow of logistics.
The first is to ensure that the policy is in place.
Continue to thoroughly implement the ten measures of the State Council to ensure the smooth flow of traffic and logistics, strengthen supervision and dynamic scheduling, and refine each task into specific policy measures, especially to ensure that vehicle passes should be issued as soon as possible, applications should be applied quickly, and national exchanges should be implemented. recognize.
The second is to keep the aorta unobstructed.
Resolutely prevent the rebound of the closure of expressway toll stations and service areas, and resolutely avoid the transfer of epidemic prevention checkpoints to national and provincial trunk lines and rural roads without approval, so as to ensure the smooth flow of the traffic trunk network.
The third is to keep the microcirculation smooth.
Make good use of emergency supplies transfer stations, promote the orderly resumption of operations of postal express distribution centers and outlets that have been closed due to the epidemic, encourage couriers to return to work in an orderly manner, support the establishment of non-contact delivery facilities in communities, improve terminal distribution capabilities, and strictly prevent The network blocking caused the backlog of mail express.
The fourth is to ensure the operation of key areas.
In accordance with the stage goal of "opening up the Yangtze River Delta, improving the Pearl River Delta, and consolidating the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region", we will enhance the collection, distribution and transportation capabilities of important hubs, accurately meet the needs of key areas, key industries, and key materials for supply and transportation, so as to strongly support regional economic operations.
The fifth is to ensure the basic needs of people's livelihood.
Focus on ensuring the transportation of food, energy and other livelihood materials, give priority to ensuring the supply of residents' daily necessities, and continuously improve the efficiency of material distribution.
Continue to optimize the business environment and solve difficulties for transportation enterprises
Reporter: What measures will the Ministry of Transport take to ease the pressure on businesses such as freight and logistics?
Xu Chengguang: Since the beginning of this year, affected by factors such as the epidemic and rising fuel costs, the operating costs of enterprises have increased and profits have fallen, and the transportation industry has encountered great difficulties in production and operation.
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to these difficulties and problems, and have successively issued a number of relief policies to help enterprises, which can be summed up as "three reductions, two supplements, one support and one precision".
The "three reductions" are to reduce or exempt public transportation services such as value-added tax and other taxes, reduce or exempt rent, and reduce social security expenses such as unemployment insurance and work-related injury insurance, which will directly help reduce corporate spending.
"Two subsidies" means to continue to provide subsidies for the purchase of new energy buses, and to provide and increase unemployment insurance and job-stabilizing return subsidies for small, medium and micro enterprises, and provide subsidy financial support for enterprises.
"One support" means giving financial and insurance policy support, setting up 100 billion yuan of re-loans in the field of transportation and logistics, opening up a "green channel" for credit approval, providing loan extension and loan renewal arrangements, developing targeted insurance products, and relieving transportation companies and truck drivers. Funds are tight to avoid capital chain breakage.
"One precision" is to implement precise epidemic prevention and control measures, reduce traffic restrictions, and optimize the business environment for enterprises and truck drivers.
After the policy was promulgated, the Ministry of Transport took a number of measures to promote the implementation of the relief policy.
In the next step, we will continue to intensify efforts to relieve the difficulties of transportation enterprises.
First, do a good job of implementing the relief policy.
Supervise and urge transportation departments at all levels to fully implement the bailout policies issued by the state, accurately recommend policies to help enterprises, coordinate and solve difficulties and blockages in the implementation of policies in a timely manner, fully implement the exemption of value-added tax for public transportation services, and implement tax refunds for the transportation industry. and other policies.
The second is to promote the assistance measures to be effective.
Guide enterprises to make good use of them, and enjoy the national fiscal and taxation support policies, and continue to strengthen the monitoring of industry operations and business operations.
The third is to help the transformation of transportation enterprises.
Actively develop services such as customized passenger transport and integration of transport and tourism, make better use of the door-to-door and flexible characteristics of road passenger transport, and guide road passenger transport enterprises to actively transform and upgrade.
Fourth, continue to optimize the business environment.
Accelerate the construction of a unified and open transportation market, fully implement the list management of administrative licensing items, further deepen the reform of "decentralization, management and services", and strive to create a fair competition, healthy and standardized transportation environment.