He Jianzhong, a spokesman for the Ministry of transportation, said at a regular press conference 24 that the investment scale of fixed assets in the whole year is expected to be flat or slightly increased with last year. He said that we should seize the opportunity to expand domestic demand, increase steady growth, increase the pre project and financing efforts, use national funds, implement supporting funds, strive for credit funds, mobilize social funds, and ensure the completion of key construction projects.
Three key points for infrastructure determination
The “12th Five-Year plan” for transport infrastructure construction has been implemented for over a year, and the opening is good. We are confident that we will achieve the goal of 12th Five-Year. He Jianzhong said.
According to the introduction, during the “12th Five-Year” period, the transport infrastructure identified three key aspects. First, speed up the construction of the provincial and provincial roads, namely, focus on large-scale construction of expressways to focus on building and upgrading national and provincial roads. During the period of 12th Five-Year, 180 thousand km of national road will be arranged, of which 80 thousand km will be rebuilt, and 15 national highways and 17 thousand km will be built.
Second, speed up the development of transportation in concentrated areas. He Jianzhong said that at present the Ministry of transportation has started the plan and is pushing forward to strengthen the construction of rural highways and rural passenger stations, especially the construction of access to these poor mountainous areas, which is the construction of the national provincial road.
“We envisage that at the end of 12th Five-Year, we should focus on the formation of the trunk road framework to improve the proportion of the two and above highways in the county. Besides the Tibet, the towns with conditions and more than 80% of the constructed villages should pass the asphalt (cement) road.” He said.
Third, we must steadily promote the construction of expressways. The “7918 national expressway network” should be basically completed in the “12th Five-Year” period.
Ensure that key construction projects are built on time
He Jianzhong said that at present, highway construction investment is faced with problems such as inadequate credit funds, lack of support, rapid increase in costs, and greater difficulty in structural adjustment.
But he promised that the Ministry of transportation would seize the opportunity to expand domestic demand, increase the growth of the project, increase the initial and financing efforts of the project, use the state funds, implement supporting funds, strive for credit funds, mobilize social funds and ensure the completion of key construction projects.
Statistics show that in the first half of April, the investment in fixed asset investment in China narrowed, and the total investment in fixed assets of highway and waterway was 285 billion 800 million yuan, down 5.2% from the same period last year.
He Jianzhong said that although there are some difficulties and challenges at present, with the micro adjustment of monetary policy and the gradual implementation of capital construction and renewal projects, “we expect that the decline in investment in fixed assets will gradually narrow, and the orderly promotion of structural adjustment will continue to guide investment to water transport construction and the western region.”
He Jianzhong predicted that the investment scale of fixed assets will be flat or slightly increased over the past year, but the structure will be further optimized.
Striving for suggestions to promote the development of the shipping industry
In addition, He Jianzhong said, in the face of the low position of the shipping market, the Ministry of transportation is working with the relevant departments to strive for a number of suggestions to promote the sustainable development of the shipping industry from the national level. It includes the establishment of a cargo reservation system at the national level in accordance with the mature experience of the world, the priority of the bulk strategic goods to the country, and the international integration of the tax policy.
He Jianzhong said that in the past 4 months, the shipping market is still at a low level, and the situation is not optimistic. Generally speaking, the shipping market is still showing a trend of “slowing down demand, excess capacity, rising costs, falling freight rates and expanding losses”.