CCTV News: According to the website of the Ministry of Transport, in the first quarter, the transportation economy started steadily and achieved a good start overall. The growth rate of freight volume was faster than the level of the whole year last year, the port container throughput achieved rapid growth, and the flow of personnel continued to be strong.
1. Commercial freight volume
In the first quarter, the commercial freight volume reached 13.06 billion tons, an increase of 4.9% year-on-year, an increase of 1.0 percentage points faster than the whole year of last year. Among them, the road freight volume was 9.49 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%; the water freight volume was 2.31 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%.
Changes in the monthly year-on-year growth rate of commercial freight volume
2. Port cargo throughput
In the first quarter, the port cargo throughput was 4.22 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.2%. Among them, domestic and foreign trade throughput increased by 4.1% and 1.4% year-on-year respectively. The container throughput was 83.03 million TEUs, an increase of 8.2% year-on-year.
Moon year-on-year growth rate of port cargo throughput
3. Personnel flow
In the first quarter, the cross-regional personnel flow reached 17.39 billion, a year-on-year increase of 4.0%. Among them, the number of highway personnel flows reached 16.07 billion, an increase of 3.9% year-on-year; the number of water passengers completed was 54.86 million, a decrease of 2.6% year-on-year.
Moon year-on-year growth rate of cross-regional personnel flow
In terms of urban passenger transport, in the first quarter, the urban passenger transport volume was 25.3 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 1.9%. Among them, the urban rail transit completed passenger volume of 7.76 billion, an increase of 3.3% year-on-year; the buses, trams, taxis and urban passenger ferries completed passenger volumes of 8.98 billion, 8.54 billion and 17.79 million, respectively, a decrease of 4.6%, 3.4% and 0.3% year-on-year respectively.
4. Transportation fixed asset investment
In the first quarter, 675.2 billion yuan of fixed asset investment in transportation was completed, of which 467.9 billion yuan and 50.8 billion yuan were completed by road and water transportation, respectively.

