Yang Chuantang:
Major breakthroughs have been achieved in transportation science and technology innovation and application. China has led the world in infrastructure construction technology. The technologies for building high-speed railways, railways in alpine-cold areas and plateaus railways and heavy haul railways lead the world. Technologies for building railways and highways in areas of special geological conditions have solved the world's toughest problems. A great number of world-class large bridges and tunnels have been constructed. Key offshore deep-water port construction technology, giant estuary waterway regulation technology, long-river waterway system management technology and large airport engineering construction technology lead the world. A group of major projects, including the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, the Yangshan Port Container Terminal and the Yangtze Estuary Deepwater Channel Regulation have been launched, with some completed and others still under construction. The development of transportation equipment is upgrading and technologies in some fields have the leading role in the world.
Third, the White Paper shows that transportation plays a leading role in economic and social development. The Chinese government insists on giving the development of transportation high priority. Transportation plays a fundamental, guiding and serving role in driving economic and social development, improving services and people's livelihood, and promoting the construction of ecological civilization. It is a clear guarantee, especially for supporting economic growth, promoting coordinated development between regions, urban and rural areas, and helping poverty reduction and elimination.
Fourth, the White Paper introduces the opening-up and international cooperation of China's transportation. The Chinese government has worked hard to boost its connectivity with the world, develop transportation to support its foreign trade growth, play an active part in the international transportation affairs, expand its opening-up in transportation and speed up the globalization of transportation. Now, the Chinese government is enhancing cooperation with the countries along the belt and road to promote the connectivity of transportation infrastructure and the convenience of transportation in an active way.
Fifth, the White Paper puts forward the goals and key tasks of transportation in the next five years. The tasks include: deepening transportation reform in an all-round way; establishing a interconnected transportation network; building modern and efficient inter-city transportation; constructing an integrated and comprehensive transportation hub; promoting pollution-free and intelligent development of transportation; improving the transportation safety management.
Now, my colleagues and I would like to take your questions.
CCTV:
Secretary Yang, based on your introduction about the white paper, I want to put forward some questions as follows: What have we achieved in the construction of the comprehensive transportation system over the past years? How does it promote China's economic development? In addition, what is the development plan in the 13th Five-Year Plan?
Yang Chuantang:
All the transport departments and regions have been proactively working on developing modern comprehensive transportation, implementing the decisions and deployment made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and have made great strides since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012. The achievements are as follows: breakthroughs have been achieved in institutional reform; the national infrastructure network has taken shape; and the transportation capacity has been greatly enhanced.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China's transportation will improve in terms of quality and efficiency, build a solid basis for the completion of a comprehensive well-off society and make full use of opportunities in the modernization drive. The main tasks are as follows: firstly, to enhance the layout of a comprehensive transportation system by designing and constructing large-scale passages running east-west and south-north and also connecting China with foreign countries; secondly, to set up three networks, namely, the high-speed transport network with high-quality services, the high-efficiency integrated artery network offering good services, and the wide-ranging integrated basic service network with great benefits coverage; third, to enhance the layout of comprehensive transport hubs by focusing on upgrading international comprehensive transport hubs like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, accelerating construction of state-level comprehensive hubs, proactively building up regional ones and developing ports; fourth, to step up integrated transportation system development so as to propel the implementation of national plans like the Belt and Road Initiative, the joint development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, poverty alleviation and new-type modernization; fifth, to promote the development of multi-modal transport of goods and passengers; sixth, to carry out the intelligent reform of the transport industry by promoting the integration of information technologies with comprehensive transportation so as to improve service quality. Those are the main tasks in the six aspects.