On the afternoon of July 26, the Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference in July 2018, briefing the economic operation of transportation in the first half of the year.
Mao Jian, deputy inspector of the Department of comprehensive planning of the Ministry of transportation, said the overall economic operation of traffic and transportation in the first half of the year was stable, steady and steady, the main indicators kept growing, the transport structure was continuously optimized, the quality and efficiency was continuously improved, and the high quality of transportation and transportation had been well begun, and the good running situation in the stable macro-economy was made. The overall agreement.
The increase in freight speed has accelerated the increase in the proportion of railway freight
In the first half of this year, the freight volume reached 232.1 million tons, up 6.9% from the same period last year, and the growth rate was 0.6 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter. According to the method, the railway freight maintained a fast growth, completed the freight volume of 19.6 million tons, increased by 7.7% over the same period, accounting for 8.4% of the whole society, the increase of the same period, the further development of the railway bulk material transport advantage, and the increase of the total increment of about 80% of the total increment. Road freight maintained growth, completed 179.8 tons of freight volume, an increase of 7.7% over the same period, highway freight flow increased by 9.7%. The growth rate of waterborne freight increased, and the freight volume reached 32.7 million tons, up 2.5% from the same period last year, and the growth rate was 2 percentage points higher than that in the first quarter. The air cargo transportation grew steadily, and the cargo volume was 3 million 560 thousand tons, an increase of 6.4% over the same period last year. The volume of express business continued to grow rapidly, with 22 billion 80 million business volume completed, an increase of 27.5% over the same period last year.
Port cargo throughput growth recovery
In the first half of the year, the cargo throughput of the ports above the scale was 65.4 billion tons, up 2.4% from the same period, and the growth rate rose by 0.9 percentage points in the first quarter, and the internal and foreign trade throughput increased by 2.1% and 2.9% respectively. From the key goods category, energy and containers have increased rapidly. The coal water of the northern port has increased by 6.4%, and the foreign trade in crude oil and liquefied gas has increased by 6% and 36.7% respectively, and the container throughput is increased by 5.4%. Iron ore and mineral construction materials have declined, including iron ore imports dropped by 1.1%, sand and other mineral construction materials throughput dropped by 5%.
High position operation of fixed assets investment in traffic
In the first half of this year, investment in fixed assets reached 1 trillion and 330 billion yuan, which remained stable compared with the same period last year. The investment in highway and waterway projects totaled 980.6 billion yuan, an increase of 1.4% over the same period of last year, and 54.5% of the annual target of 1.8 trillion yuan. The progress was 0.7 percentage points faster than that in the same period of last year. Among them, the highways and rural roads invested 431 billion 100 million yuan and 190 billion 900 million yuan respectively, which increased by 12.8% and 1.8% year on year. The provincial capital of the ordinary country completed the investment of 284 billion 600 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 13.2%, and the construction of the water transport construction was 51 billion 100 million yuan, and a year-on-year decline of 9%.
In the first half of the year, the structural reform of the supply side of the transportation industry has been deepened. The three major battles and the implementation of major national strategies have been made positive progress, and the transport of bulk materials to railway and water transport has been pushed forward, and the volume of container iron and water transport has increased rapidly and increased by more than 30%. In the first half of this year, 101,000 kilometers of new rural roads were rebuilt and 50.6 percent of the target of 200,000 kilometers was completed.
