my country's major transportation indicators maintained growth in the first three quarters

CCTV News (News Network): The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport that in the first three quarters of this year, the transportation economy was generally stable and the main indicators maintained growth.

The latest data from the Ministry of Transport shows that in the first three quarters, the number of cross-regional personnel movements in my country reached 51.22 billion, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. From the perspective of travel structure, highway self-driving travel accounts for a high proportion and is the main support for cross-regional people mobility. Some places have set up spring break and autumn break to connect with long holidays, forming multiple rounds and short-distance travel windows, driving the popularity of study tours and parent-child tours, and further increasing the frequency of travel. At the same time, as the high-speed rail network coverage continues to expand, tourist trains are operated accurately to better match the diversified and personalized travel needs of tourists. With the further increase in the number of countries to which my country operates flights, passenger traffic on international civil aviation routes increased by 4.7% year-on-year.

In the first three quarters, my country's freight volume continued to grow. Many domestic ports have opened new routes intensively, mainly serving automobile exports, ASEAN and European trade. The national ports completed cargo throughput of 13.64 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 0.7%, of which foreign trade throughput increased by 2.9% year-on-year.

In terms of transportation fixed asset investment, 2.4 trillion yuan was invested in the first three quarters. The construction of Shiziyang Channel, Zhangjinggao Yangtze River Bridge, Xiamen-Jinjiang Bridge (Xiamen Section) and other projects has been accelerated.