In August, investment of 329.8 billion yuan in fixed assets in transportation increased for five consecutive months | News from the Ministry of Transport and Finance



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Original title: August completed an investment of 329.8 billion yuan in investment in transportation fixed assets for five consecutive months

Source: Economic Daily

At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Transportation held on September 24, Ministry of Transportation spokesman Sun Wenjian said that in August, investment in fixed assets in transportation was 329.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%. Since the annual growth rate in April went from negative to positive, the annual growth rate of investment in fixed assets in transport has exceeded 15% for five consecutive months, of which the annual growth rate has exceeded 20 % in May, June and July. The high growth rate for many consecutive months indicates that the various transport tasks have continued to exert their efforts and are effective.

High growth for five consecutive months has driven investment in fixed transportation assets to maintain a high level of operation this year. In the first eight months of this year, investment in fixed assets in transportation was 2,122.5 million yuan, an increase of 10.5% year-on-year. With the continued progress of resuming work, the highway construction project has returned to normal. By the end of August, in addition to the resumption of 232 ongoing works of the main road construction projects on which the Ministry of Transport focused, 13 of the 36 new projects planned had already started.

As the situation of prevention and control of the new corona pneumonia epidemic continues to stabilize, passenger traffic has continued to rebound, recovering to 62.2% from the same period last year, breaking 60% by first time. In August, commercial passenger traffic reached 980 million people, and the degree of recovery was 4.2% higher than in July; 36 central cities of the country completed an urban public transport passenger traffic of 4.240 million people, which was restored to 75.9% of the same period last year, representing a recovery of 75.9%. An increase of 4.6 percentage points per month.

The growth rate of cargo volume and port cargo throughput has also accelerated. In terms of cargo volume, in August, the operating cargo volume increased 4.7% year-on-year, and the growth rate returned to that of the same period last year; In terms of port cargo, in August, the volume of domestic and foreign trade increased by 7.8% and 5.9% respectively. Finished container yield of 24.06 million TEU, an increase of 6.4%, an increase of 1.7% from the previous month.

In addition, Sun Wenjian said that the executive meeting of the State Council in August decided to allocate 10 billion yuan of vehicle purchase tax funds this year to support road construction in the worst affected provinces. The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance will study and determine the financing arrangements as soon as possible, focusing on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Support the restoration and reconstruction of damaged roads in 11 provinces severely affected by disasters, including Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan, and allocate all funds to projects. A total of 4,014 national and provincial trunk lines and rural road construction projects have been organized, with reconstruction mileage expected to exceed 24,000 kilometers.

  Reduce logistics costs in the first half of the year by more than 99 billion yuan

The eighth meeting of the Central Committee on Finance and Economy held a few days ago indicated that the formation of a safe and efficient logistics network with internal and external connections must be accelerated. Sun Wenjian said that transportation connects production and consumption and is the basic link and important support to build a modern circulation system and smooth the national economic cycle. In recent years, the Ministry of Transportation has strengthened interdepartmental links, has carried out tasks such as reducing charges related to companies, developing multimodal transportation, and improving transportation and logistics infrastructure networks. You have done everything possible to reduce logistics costs and have obtained positive results. Last year, the logistics cost of the whole society was reduced by 80.5 billion yuan. In the first half of this year, the logistics cost fell by more than 99 billion yuan, exceeding last year’s total.

In recent years, the Ministry of Transportation has vigorously supported the development of new forms of transportation. New forms of online parking service, bike sharing and online road freight transport have continued to emerge and develop rapidly, enriching the transport service offering and enhancing the service experience. Sun Wenjian revealed that at present, more than 190 platform companies have obtained operating licenses, and more than 2.5 million driver licenses have been issued online and about 1.04 million vehicle transport licenses in various regions. There are about 21 million orders per day. Among the 36 central cities, 18 cities have already exceeded the number of cruise cars in compliance with the online car call.

  Continuous advance of decentralized control services in the field of transport

Sun Wenjian said the Ministry of Transportation continued to deepen the reform of “delegation of control and service” in the field of transportation, focusing on supervision during and after the event, and insisting on targeting the problem. The Ministry of Transport has formulated the “Guiding Opinions on the strengthening and standardization of supervision during and after the event” to highlight the solutions In practice, the problems of “emphasis on approval and negligence of supervision”, “wanting not to manage, dare to manage and not want to manage ”have further clarified the scope of supervision, regulatory agencies, methods of supervision and methods of supervision. A new type of supervision system with “open” supervision as the basic means, complemented by key supervision and based on credit supervision.

In recent years, the Ministry of Transport has made positive progress in deepening the reform of the administrative approval system and in the continuous optimization of the business environment. In the field of roads and transportation, through the national highway construction market credit information management system, business qualification permits have been processed electronically, greatly improving the efficiency of examination and approval. The Ministry of Transport has also established an active duty mechanism. At present, local transportation departments have established a “one-to-one” liaison service mechanism with 284 major equipment manufacturing companies and 367 major construction projects, and the business environment has improved considerably. (Reporter Qi Hui)

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