Construction of a modern infrastructure system was accelerated

Unity can win and struggle can succeed. 

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, our Party has closely relied on the people, overcome seemingly insurmountable difficulties and obstacles, and created a remarkable human miracle. Looking back on the extraordinary decade, the land of China has changed rapidly, and the infrastructure has been comprehensively strengthened.

Look at the scale. The total length of the comprehensive transportation network exceeded 6 million kilometers, and the total length of 220 kilovolt or above transmission lines exceeded 840,000 kilometers, and the total length of optical cable lines reached 54.81 million kilometers, 1.3 times, 1.7 times and 3.7 times of that of a decade ago, respectively. China's high-speed rail, expressways, power grid, 4G network scale is ranked first in the world.

Look at the quality. Major projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge have been completed and put into operation, and the Beijing-Shanghai Trunk Line, the world's first quantum secure communication backbone, has been completed. A number of landmark projects lead the world, demonstrating the style of a big country.

Historic achievements have been made in the development of transportation, energy, water conservancy and new infrastructure, which have strongly guaranteed China's economic and social development.

The delegates said that infrastructure is an important support for economic and social development, and it is necessary to balance development and security, optimize the layout, structure, function and development mode of infrastructure, and build a modern infrastructure system to lay a solid foundation for comprehensively building a modern socialist country.

We will speed up the building of a strong transport country

Sichuan-tibet Post Road Kangding to Dege section, known as the snow line post road. With an altitude of 6,168 meters, Chouer Mountain is known as the "first risk in Sichuan and Tibet". As the local people say, "Passing the Chouer Mountain is like passing the gate of death." In the past decade, the traffic changes in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, thousands of miles a day, from Chengdu to Kangding through the high-speed tunnel through the Chouer Mountain, so that through the "first risk of Sichuan and Tibet" shortened to 10 minutes by car. Now, the Sichuan-Tibet railway is also being built.

"It used to take more than a week to send mail from Chengdu to Dege, now it only takes three days. Ganzi Prefecture not only built a highway, but also built three airports. Matsutake from Yajiang and Daocheng, yak beef from Litang, red wine from Xiangcheng, Tibetan medicine from Dege... We're shipping it almost every day." Talking about the great changes in plateau traffic, Qi Mei Duoji, the leader of the postal driving group of China Post Group Co., Ltd. in Sichuan Province's Garze County branch, who has adhered to the snow line post road for 33 years, was overwhelmed with emotion.

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the construction of China's modern comprehensive three-dimensional transportation system has been accelerated, the construction of strategic backbone channels has been accelerated, and the multi-level integrated comprehensive transportation hub system has been gradually improved.

The scale advantage is obvious. By the end of 2021, China will have 150,000 kilometers of railways in operation, 160,000 kilometers of expressways open to traffic, 4.466 million kilometers of rural roads, 250 airports and 5,581 air routes, and 128,000 kilometers of inland waterways open to traffic.

The layout is more balanced. Railway operating mileage in the central and western regions accounted for 60% of the national proportion. Every county has roads, and rural roads have increased by more than 900,000 kilometers in the past ten years.

Service quality improved. China's high-speed railways cover more than 95 percent of cities with a population of more than one million, expressways more than 98 percent of cities with a population of more than 200,000, and civil transport airports cover about 92 percent of prefecture-level cities. Express delivery handled nearly 300 million items a day, and 100 percent of qualified villages had buses.

"The report of the Party's 20th National Congress proposed to accelerate the construction of a powerful country in transportation. As a veteran rooted in the transportation front for many years, I feel that the mission is glorious and the responsibility is on my shoulder. I will continue to firmly implement the purpose of 'people's post for the people', and add to the people's better life with quality transportation services." He is full of energy.

"The continuous improvement and upgrading of the transport infrastructure system strongly supports the construction of a new development pattern." The relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission introduced that in the past ten years, the level of domestic and international and cross-regional transportation infrastructure connectivity has been significantly improved, the transportation of personnel and materials has become more convenient, and the flow of resource factors has become smoother.