On June 12, the Ministry of Transport issued the "2024 Transport Industry Development Statistical Bulletin" (hereinafter referred to as the "Gumalle"). In 2024, my country completed 3.8 trillion yuan in fixed assets investment in transportation, continuing to maintain a high level. The mileage of the main skeleton route of the National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network exceeds 260,000 kilometers, and the completion rate is about 90%.

The data from the "Communiqué" shows that the coverage of my country's rapid transportation network continued to expand last year. The new high-speed rail line has been put into production for 2,457 kilometers, and the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network has been continuously extended. More than one-third of the provinces in the country have achieved high-speed rail access in cities and cities; the mileage of highways has increased by 7,032 kilometers, and more than two-thirds of the provinces have achieved high-speed access in counties and counties; aviation services cover 92.6% of the prefecture-level administrative units and 91.2% of the population in the country.

In addition, my country's rural road construction investment has remained above 400 billion yuan for eight consecutive years, and the mileage of newly renovated rural roads reached 164,100 kilometers throughout the year. 426,700 village-level delivery and logistics comprehensive service stations (village post stations) have been established nationwide, an increase of 61,600. The supply of delivery services in western regions such as Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia has continued to increase.

Last year, my country's average daily average of about 180 million people traveled across regions

The Bulletin shows that in 2024, my country's transportation service system was becoming increasingly perfect, with the cross-regional personnel flow reaching 64.6 billion people, and the total business freight volume of the whole society reached 56.9 billion tons.

In 2024, my country had an average of about 180 million cross-regional trips per day, an increase of 5.4% over 2023. Among them, more than 11 million traveled by train, more than 160 million traveled by road, about 700,000 traveled by ship, and about 2 million traveled by plane.

Whike is more convenient and fast, freight transportation is also efficient and smooth. In 2024, the commercial freight volume of my country's entire society reached 56.9 billion tons, with an average daily transport of about 160 million tons of goods, an increase of 3.9% over 2023. The postal industry's delivery business volume has reached 193.7 billion pieces, with an average of about 530 million pieces per day, an increase of 19.2%. The total number of China-Europe freight trains has exceeded 100,000, and the annual number of sea-rail intermodal trains in the Western Land-Sea New Channel has exceeded 10,000.

In addition, electronic invoices have been implemented in the fields of railways and civil aviation, and more than 6,500 customized passenger routes have been opened in the field of highways, and 12,700 rural passenger, freight and mail cooperation routes have been reached. The normal rate of civil aviation flights is 87.1%, and it has remained above 80% for seven consecutive years.

Zhou Jian, Deputy Director of the Information Center of the Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport: From the perspective of growth rate, the growth rate of major physical traffic indicators such as commercial freight volume and cross-regional personnel flow have remained at a growth range of around 4% and 5%, which is basically consistent with the economic growth rate. At the same time, during major holidays, public travel demand is stronger and goods flow is busy and orderly, indicating that my country's economy has strong development resilience and consumption has huge potential to explore.