The Ministry of Transport has issued China’s transport services plan for 2026 through 2030, jointly with the National Railway Administration, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and the State Post Bureau. Most of what is new in it, Xinhua reports, comes down to two things: joined-up services, and the efficiency that multimodal transport can deliver.
Multimodal transport carries several targets of its own. One is to have 90% of containers moved from one mode to another within an hour, and it is port rail infrastructure that is expected to get China there, with tracks running right up to the berths. Another is 10 million TEU carried door to door in a single container.
The push for integrated services and systems reaches into the countryside as well: passengers, freight, and mail and parcels are to share the same terminals and the same vehicles. Passenger journeys, for their part, are meant to run end to end across modes.
Sustainability is the plan’s other priority. Car rental is to become easier to reach so that fewer households need a car of their own; green modes are to account for 76% of urban travel; and new-energy vehicles are to make up 20% of the heavy truck fleet.
The broad aim is a modern system of integrated transport services—passenger transport that is tiered and of high quality, and freight logistics that runs seamlessly from end to end, costs less, and leans on digital and smart technology. Most of that work is to be done by 2030.
By 2035 the targets get sharper: an hour to cross a major city, two hours to travel across an urban agglomeration, three hours between China’s biggest cities. Freight, meanwhile, is to reach any point in the country within a day, neighboring countries within two, and the world’s major cities within three.
Source: https://www.infranews.ru/
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