According to the regular press conference of the Ministry of Transport, in 2020, the main indicators of transportation generally showed a trend of decline-rise-continuous-recovery. It is estimated that the investment in fixed assets of transportation will reach 3.48 trillion yuan for the whole year, achieving a relatively rapid growth. Among them, the highway and waterway are expected to complete investment of 2.59 trillion yuan and 143.8% of the annual investment target.

The freight volume of the whole society has basically recovered to the same level in 2019. In 2020, the whole society completed 46.34 billion tons of commercial freight volume, down 0.5% from the same period last year, which has basically filled the gap caused by the epidemic. From May to December, the freight volume has maintained positive growth for eight consecutive months. In addition, in 2020, China completed 14.55 billion tons of port cargo throughput, an increase of 4.3% year-on-year, from April to December, nine consecutive months of positive growth. Among them, domestic trade completed 10.05 billion tons, an increase of 4.4% year-on-year, and foreign trade completed 4.5 billion tons, an increase of 4% year-on-year.

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