"If You Want To Be Rich, Build Roads First." How Does Transportation Practice The Road Of Common Prosperity?

On August 24, Li Xiaopeng, Minister of transport, revealed at the press conference of the new office of the people's Republic of China that the main framework space of China's comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network with six axes, seven corridors and eight channels has taken shape. The coverage rate of high-speed railway to cities with a population of more than one million has exceeded 95%, and that of high-speed highways to cities with a population of more than 200000 exceeds 98%, Civil transport airports cover more than 92% of prefecture level cities.

"If you want to be rich, build roads first." in 1984, Xu Qibin, then head of Meishan County, Sichuan Province, said this simple and effective saying. With the prosperity of all industries brought about by smooth roads, it was widely recognized and spread to the north and south of the river. Over the past 40 years, China has continued to increase investment in transportation, land, sea and air development in an all-round way, so as to ensure that the people enter a well-off society and move towards common prosperity.

"People enjoy their activities and things are superior to their flow"

Li Xiaopeng said at the press conference that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's transportation has made historic achievements and undergone historic changes. It has played an important role in serving the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and has made positive contributions.

At present, China's comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network with railway as the backbone, highway as the foundation, water transportation and civil aviation comparative advantages fully play is increasingly perfect. The main framework space of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network with six axes, seven corridors and eight channels has been initially formed. The coverage rate of high-speed railway to cities with a population of more than one million is more than 95%, that of expressways to cities with a population of more than 200000 exceeds 98%, and that of civil transport airports covers more than 92% of prefecture level cities.

The formation of high-speed passenger transport service system with high-speed rail and aviation as the main part is accelerated. EMU trains bear 70% of the railway passenger volume, and the normal rate of civil aviation flights has exceeded 80% for three consecutive years. The transformation and upgrading of road passenger transport are also speeding up. Online booking taxi covers more than 300 cities in China, with an average daily order volume of 20 million.

The problem of travel difficulties in poor areas has been solved. In our country, the qualified towns and villages have been connected with hardened roads, buses and postal services. The problem of travel difficulties in poor areas has been solved historically. In addition, the ability of scientific and technological innovation has greatly increased. A large number of key projects such as Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge, Beijing Zhangjiakou Railway, Beijing Daxing International Airport and Shanghai Yangshan Port automation terminal have been put into operation. China Road, China bridge, China port and China high-speed rail have become the beautiful business cards of China.

The green level of transportation safety continued to improve, and the overall situation of safety production was stable. In terms of green, by the end of last year, the number of new energy buses had reached 466000, accounting for 66.2% of the total number of urban buses. The national railway electrification rate reached 74.9%, the recycling utilization rate of highway pavement waste materials reached 95%, and the utilization rate of express recyclable transfer bags reached 93.8%.

The capacity of transportation management has been continuously improved. We have deepened reform and opening-up, combined the release and management, strengthened the improvement and service, optimized the business environment, cancelled the decentralization of a number of administrative examination and approval items, and promoted the "one network and all-in-one operation", so as to make more data and less errands for the masses.

Ma Junsheng, director of the State Post Bureau, added the situation of the postal express industry. According to his introduction, at present, the modern postal industry adapted to the well-off society has been completed in an all-round way. The income scale of the industry expanded rapidly, from 1980 billion yuan in 2012 to 1103.8 billion yuan in 2020, with an average annual growth of 24%. The express business volume increased from 5.7 billion pieces to 83.5 billion pieces, a net increase of 14 times and an average annual growth of 40%. The effective appeal rate of postal service and express delivery service decreased significantly, and the average unit price of express delivery decreased from 18.5 yuan to 10.6 yuan.

The equalization of postal universal service has been basically realized, the business outlets have realized the full coverage of towns and villages, and all the organic villages have realized direct postal service. The coverage of express network is more extensive, the coverage rate of township outlets reaches 98%, the proportion of direct delivery to villages is more than half, and the whole time limit of express service in key areas is shortened to 58 hours.

Liu Zhenfang, director of the State Railway Administration, also said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, 53000 km of new railways have been put into operation, of which 31000 km of high-speed railways have been put into operation, 59.5% of the country's double track railway lines and 72.8% of the electrification rate, all ranking first in the world“ The "four vertical and four horizontal" high-speed rail network has been fully completed, and the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network is being formed. The high-speed railway has covered 92% of the cities with a population of more than 500000. The safety and quality indicators of railway transportation rank first in the world, and the major economic indicators of railway transportation, such as passenger transport turnover, freight transport volume and freight turnover, rank first in the world. In 2019, 3.66 billion railway passengers will be sent and 1470.66 billion passenger kilometers will be completed. In 2020, 4.55 billion tons of railway freight will be delivered, and 305.14 billion ton kilometers of freight turnover will be completed. Railway transportation safety continues to be stable, especially the world's leading high-speed rail operation safety.

"The degree of traffic development is an important indicator of a country's modernization." Li Xiaopeng said that under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, China has become a country worthy of its name as a transportation power. However, "there is still a long way to go to build a transportation power." Li Xiaopeng said that at present and for a period to come, the Ministry of communications should focus on four tasks, namely, adhering to planning guidance, adhering to pilot projects first, accelerating the promotion of key projects and improving the governance structure.

In his opinion, to speed up the construction of a transportation power, we should speed up the construction of the main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, and basically realize the "national 123 transportation circle" and "global 123 fast cargo logistics circle" by 2035. By the time of building a transportation power in the middle of this century, China will be able to achieve the goal of "enjoying people's travel and optimizing material flow".

Transportation benefits rural areas to share prosperity

The purpose of "people enjoy their activities and things are superior to their flow" is to achieve common prosperity. It is worth mentioning that to build a well-off society in an all-round way is inseparable from the improvement of traffic infrastructure conditions, especially the construction of rural roads, which has played a key role in improving people's daily travel and income. To this end, the Ministry of communications has also made a lot of efforts.

Li Xiaopeng disclosed that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, 2.357 million kilometers of rural roads have been built and rebuilt. Now the total mileage of rural roads has reached 4.38 million kilometers, accounting for 84.3% of the total mileage of China's roads. Last year, more than 500 million farmers were benefited from the construction of roads and buses in towns and villages with conditions“ In recent years, the construction of the "four good rural roads" has achieved tangible results, bringing popularity and wealth to the rural areas, especially the poor areas, and rallying the hearts of the people for the party at the grass-roots level. " Li Xiaopeng said that rural roads are public welfare and basic facilities serving "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", and the Ministry of communications will spare no effort to promote the high-quality development of "four good rural roads".

Dong Zhiyi, deputy director of CAAC, provided three sets of data at the conference.

By 2020, there will be 241 licensed transport airports in China, 58 more than in 2012. In particular, nearly 50% of the new airports are located in poverty alleviation areas. Air services cover 82.6% of the population in poverty-free areas.

By 2020, there will be 5581 routes nationwide, 3124 more than in 2012, an increase of 120%. At present, it can ensure that there is at least one flight per day connecting the regional hub airport of the provincial capital, and at most one transfer can connect to the international hub airport.

By 2020, China's aviation population has reached 380 million, including 210 million new aviation population during the 13th Five Year Plan period, which enables more and more residents of the third and fourth tier cities to enjoy aviation services. The airport passenger throughput in poverty alleviation areas has increased from about 28 million in 2012 to 78 million in 2019, with an increase of more than 170%.

"From the above three groups of data, we can see that China's aviation services cover 92% of the prefecture level administrative regions, 88% of the population and 93% of the total economic volume." Dong Zhiyi believes that the civil aviation industry has played a unique advantage in serving the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. First, it has improved the traffic conditions in remote areas; second, it has optimized the investment environment in remote areas; third, it has expanded the road to prosperity in remote areas.

Dong Zhiyi said that the development level of China's civil aviation is in line with building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, but there are still many shortcomings and shortcomings. In particular, the development of general aviation, the voice of international civil aviation and the innovation ability of the industry are still in the initial stage, which will be the main direction of attack in the future.

Dong Zhiyi said that during the "14th five year plan" period, China's digital construction will cover all fields, processes and elements of civil aviation, so as to further accelerate the process of strengthening civil aviation“ In the future, we will realize the "five ones", that is, "one face for travel, one bill for logistics, one inspection for customs clearance, one network for operation, and one platform for supervision."

In addition to aviation, postal express has become an important force to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and implement the strategy of Rural Revitalization“ Our network in rural areas is now more extensive, postal network services can reach every village, express network 98% of the villages and towns have arrived, 50% of the administrative villages have arrived Ma Junsheng said that according to the requirements of the central government, the "express delivery into the village" project is being vigorously promoted. It is planned to solve the problem in the next two or three years. Ma Junsheng also revealed that the mode of "delivery + agricultural products + cooperatives" has effectively solved the problems of difficult and expensive sales of agricultural products, and has played an important role in improving the production and life of farmers.