The transportation sector has gotten off to a good start in the first two months of this year.

　　Recently, it was learned from the Ministry of Transport that from January to February this year, the national transportation fixed asset investment reached 355.8 billion yuan, the commercial freight volume was 8.3 billion tons, an increase of 6.5% year-on-year, and the cross-regional movement of people across society reached 12.38 billion trips, an increase of 0.7% year-on-year, achieving a good start for the transportation economy overall.

　　In the first two months, the scale of national transportation fixed asset investment remained high, with railway investment reaching 72.2 billion yuan; highway investment reaching 244.9 billion yuan, including 138.3 billion yuan for expressways, 55.2 billion yuan for ordinary national and provincial roads, and 30.7 billion yuan for rural roads; waterway investment reaching 28 billion yuan; and civil aviation investment reaching 10.7 billion yuan.

　　The main freight indicators showed good growth. From January to February, the freight volumes for railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation were 820 million tons, 6.15 billion tons, 1.34 billion tons, and 1.6 million tons, respectively, with year-on-year increases of 1.6%, 6.6%, 9%, and 12.2%. Port cargo throughput grew rapidly, and foreign trade container throughput demonstrated strong resilience. In the first two months, national ports handled 2.87 billion tons of cargo, an increase of 7.2% year-on-year, and completed container throughput of 58.77 million TEUs, an increase of 9.8% year-on-year. Despite the deepening impact of changes in the external environment, China's foreign trade container throughput at ports still achieved double-digit growth, with a year-on-year growth rate of 13.7%.

　　The increasingly improved comprehensive transportation network has effectively ensured the high-level operation of transportation logistics and the strong travel demand of the people. From January to February, railway and civil aviation passenger volumes were 760 million trips and 130 million trips, respectively, with year-on-year increases of 2.6% and 3.9%; cross-regional highway passenger flows were 11.45 billion trips, an increase of 0.5% year-on-year; and waterway passenger volumes were 40.02 million trips, an increase of 7.3% year-on-year.