On November 19, the front page of the Learning Times published an article signed by Li Xiaopeng, Minister of Transport, entitled "Achievements and Experience Inspiration of the Party's Leadership in Transportation.". The full text is as follows ↓↓
The Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out that since its founding in 1921, the Communist Party of China has always regarded seeking happiness for the Chinese and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation as its original mission, always adhered to the communist ideal and socialist belief, and united and led the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to make unremitting efforts to strive for national independence, people's liberation, and realize the prosperity and strength of the country and the happiness of the people, and has gone through a glorious course of one hundred years. The struggle of the party and the people over the past hundred years has written the most magnificent epic in the history of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. In the past hundred years, especially since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the cause of transportation has undergone tremendous changes, achieved achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, made great strides to catch up with the times, realized the leap from a weak country in transportation to a big country in transportation, and is entering a new journey of accelerating the construction of a strong transportation country with its head held high. At the recent Second United Nations Global Conference on Sustainable Transport, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "since the founding of New China, generations of people have opened roads in every mountain and built bridges in water, built a big transportation country, and are accelerating the construction of a transportation power", "transportation has become the pioneer of China's modernization". The rapid development of transportation has effectively supported the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong, and has become a vivid footnote to the practice of our party leading the great social revolution, which further confirms the historical inevitability of adhering to the party's centralized and unified leadership over the transportation industry.
The party unites and leads the people in the magnificent process of building a big country in transportation
In the more than 5,000 years of civilization history of the Chinese nation, transportation is the vein of the economy and the link of civilization. Historically, the ancient Silk Road and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal have greatly promoted economic development and cultural exchanges. After the Opium War in 1840, China gradually degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and important economic lifelines such as railway construction rights, port operation rights, and river and sea transportation rights were manipulated by foreign powers. In 1921, the Chinese Communist Party came into being, which was a groundbreaking event. Over the past one hundred years, our party has always focused on the original mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, attached importance to the development of transportation, led transportation to achieve a historic change from "bottleneck constraint" to "overall alleviation" to "basic adaptation", and built a transportation country.
During the period of the new-democratic revolution, the party united and led the people to actively develop the transportation industry, which created fundamental conditions for changing the situation in which the transportation foundation is weak and the whole is backward. After the birth of the party in 1921, he led the workers' movement such as the Hong Kong seamen's strike, the Anyuan Road miners' strike, and the Beijing-Hankou railway workers' strike, which dealt a heavy blow to imperialism and feudalism. During the period of the Great Revolution, the Party led workers in railway, shipping, shipbuilding and other industries to actively participate in the Struggle of the May Thirtieth Movement and the Provincial and Hong Kong Strikes, and became the leading force of the Great Revolution. During the period of the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Party regarded the renovation of major transportation routes and the construction of bridges as the "most urgent work" for the construction of the Central Soviet Region. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the party led the broad masses of the military and the people to destroy all kinds of transportation facilities controlled by the Japanese army, relying on complex traffic conditions and geographical environment to strike hard at the Japanese Kou; in the construction of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area, the party led the implementation of the principle of comprehensive development of agriculture, transportation, and other industries, which effectively promoted the development of production and the improvement of people's livelihood in the anti-Japanese democratic base areas. During the period of the Liberation War, the party led the people in carrying out large-scale railway and highway construction in the Liberated Areas, carried out military station construction, military transportation, and transportation operations, launched and relied on the people to guarantee front-line military materials, and guaranteed the victory of major strategic decisive battles such as the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin, as well as the battle of crossing the river.
During the period of socialist revolution and construction, the party united and led the people to build and develop the new Chinese transportation system, laying a solid foundation for building a big transportation country. After the founding of New China, state investment has been continuously tilted toward transportation, and the construction of transportation infrastructure and the scale of transportation have been expanding. Chengdu-Chongqing, Tianlan, Yingxia, Baolan and other railways have been completed one after another, Sichuan-Tibet, Qinghai-Tibet, Yunnan-Tibet and other highways have been opened to traffic, newly opened up international and domestic waterway routes, Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge and a number of other major traffic projects have been completed and opened to traffic, independently manufactured the first steam locomotive "Bayi" in New China, and independently designed and built the first 10,000-ton ocean-going freighter "Dongfeng". By 1978, the total operating mileage of railways reached 52,000 kilometers, the total mileage of highways opened to traffic reached 890,000 kilometers, the number of berths in major ports in the country reached 735, the number of international routes for civil aviation reached 12, and the number of domestic routes increased to 150.
In the new period of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, the party united and led the people to vigorously liberate and develop transportation productive forces, focus on building a comprehensive transportation system, and basically build a big transportation country. Since the reform and opening up, the Party Central Committee has given priority to transportation development, supported the establishment of the Shekou Industrial Zone, promoted reform and opening up to be the first to try, and infrastructure construction has entered a period of rapid development. Measures such as "everyone takes the boat when there is a river, and everyone takes the car when there is a road", the railway "big package", the "enterprise" of civil aviation, and the sub-camp of posts and telecommunications have been adopted to open up and invigorate the transportation market. Form a transportation investment and financing model of "national investment, local financing, social financing, and utilization of foreign capital", and accelerate the construction of railways, highways, ports, inland waterways and civil aviation airports. In 2008, the state established the Ministry of Transport, which required overall planning for the development of railways, highways, waterways, civil aviation and postal industries, and accelerated the construction of a comprehensive transportation system. During this period, the bottleneck constraints of China's transportation have been alleviated as a whole, the mileage of high-speed railways and highways has ranked first in the world, the water transport network connecting trunk and branch has initially formed, the civil airport system has basically taken shape, the township offices and village postal services have been realized as a whole, and the ability of transportation services to support economic and social development has been significantly enhanced.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, the party has united and led the people to accelerate the construction of a modern comprehensive transportation system, built a veritable transportation country, and is accelerating the construction of a transportation power. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the development of transportation, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly made important instructions, emphasizing economic development and transportation should go first; accelerate the construction of a transportation power; and accelerate the formation of a safe, convenient, efficient, green and economic comprehensive transportation system. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that we should adhere to the intersection with the world and the times; and promote global transportation cooperation. The Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed to build a transportation power. The Party Central Committee and the State Council have successively issued the "Outline for the Construction of a Transportation Powerhouse" and the "Outline for the Planning of the National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network", clarifying the strategic objectives, key tasks and policy measures for transportation services to achieve the second centenary goal, and drawing a blueprint for accelerating the construction of a transportation power.
The party has made historic achievements and changes in the transportation industry under its leadership
Over the past one hundred years, under the strong leadership of the party, China's transportation industry has made world-renowned achievements and embarked on a development path with Chinese characteristics. Especially since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the cause of transportation has made historic achievements and undergone historic changes, built the world's largest high-speed railway network, highway network, world-class port cluster, aviation navigation to the world, comprehensive transportation network exceeded 6 million kilometers, highway network, railway dense, high-speed rail galloping, giant ships long-distance voyage, aircraft soaring, graben to change the way the dream has become a reality.
Accelerate the construction of a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network and effectively support the implementation of major national strategies. The party insists on giving play to the leading role of transportation, realizes the acceleration of transportation infrastructure into a network, and basically forms a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network with the "ten vertical and ten horizontal" comprehensive transportation channel as the main skeleton and the internal and external communication, which provides a strong support for the sustained and healthy development of the national economy. By the end of 2020, the mileage of China's railways, highways, inland waterways and civil aviation routes will reach 146,000 kilometers, 5,198,000 kilometers, 128,000 kilometers and 9,426,300 kilometers respectively, which is 7 times, 64 times, 1.7 times and 857 times that of the early days of the founding of New China. Among them, the mileage of high-speed railways and highways reached 38,000 kilometers and 161,000 kilometers respectively, and there were 2,592 berths of 10,000 tons and above. A number of modern comprehensive transportation hub projects such as Shanghai Hongqiao and Beijing Daxing have been completed and put into operation, the integration of transportation in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta has made significant progress, and the construction of comprehensive three-dimensional transportation corridors in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the transportation interconnection in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have been steadily promoted, laying a solid foundation for optimizing the regional economic layout and promoting coordinated regional development.
The transportation service capacity has been greatly improved, and the people's sense of gain has been significantly enhanced. The party leads the transportation industry to adhere to common development, focus on solving the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development, and promote the continuous improvement of transportation service capabilities. Based on road transport, the rapid development of high-speed rail and civil aviation travel service system has been continuously improved, with 2.36 billion passengers sent by high-speed rail, the normal rate of civil aviation flights exceeding 80% for three consecutive years, the length of bus operating lines reaching 1.48 million kilometers, and the length of bus lanes exceeding 16,000 kilometers. The level of integration of urban and rural transportation has been significantly improved, all qualified townships and organized villages have been hardened roads and buses, 81 pairs of public welfare "slow trains" have been normalized, and villages have been directly connected to mail and township express delivery outlets, realizing the solemn promise of "never letting any place be left behind due to traffic on the well-off road". The circulation of goods is more economical and efficient, the toll stations at the provincial borders of expressways are cancelled, the "public to rail" and "public to water" of bulk materials are further promoted, and the modes of transportation organization such as iron-water intermodal transport, public railway combined transport, air-rail combined transport, and river-sea intermodal transport are innovated and developed.
The innovation ability of transportation has been significantly improved, and the quality of development has continued to improve. The party's leadership of transportation adheres to innovation and leadership, and realizes the new stage of "three runs and parallels" in which the level of transportation science and technology has changed from tracking and catching up to following, running and leading, adding new momentum to China's economic development. A number of super-large transportation projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Beijing Daxing International Airport, Beijing-Zhangjiang High-speed Railway, and Shanghai Yangshan Port Automation Terminal were completed and put into operation, and large heavy equipment such as the Fuxing series of EMUs and C919 large passenger aircraft appeared on the stage, and complete sets of technologies such as cross-sea bridges and tunnels, deep-water waterways, and automated terminals ranked among the forefront in the world. Beidou systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligent ships, intelligent networked vehicles, unmanned warehouses to accelerate the application, shared bicycles, online car-hailing, network freight and other new formats and new models are booming, new energy vehicles account for more than half of the global total. Resolutely fight the battle against pollution in the field of transportation, comprehensively carry out the three-year action of transport structure adjustment, and continuously achieve new results in energy conservation and carbon reduction and pollution control.
The comprehensive transportation system and mechanism have been gradually improved, and the efficiency of governance has been continuously improved. The party led the transportation industry to adhere to the deepening reform, and formed a comprehensive transportation management system framework of "one department and three bureaus" at the national level, and the reform of the provincial comprehensive transportation management system was gradually promoted, and the operating mechanism was gradually improved. The comprehensive traffic regulation system and standard system have initially taken shape. Positive progress has been made in the reform of transportation "decentralization and management services", the reform of comprehensive administrative law enforcement, and the reform of the division of fiscal powers and expenditure responsibilities, the reform of the railway and postal company system has been completed as a whole, and the reform of general aviation has been continuously deepened. The transportation safety system has been continuously improved, the safety emergency support capability has been significantly improved, and the emergency rescue and disposal capability has been continuously improved, effectively responding to various risks and challenges.
The opening up and cooperation of transportation to the outside world has continued to deepen, and the international influence has been significantly enhanced. The party led the transportation to adhere to the open linkage, the service of "six corridors, six roads, multiple countries and multiple ports" traffic interconnection framework has basically taken shape, China-Europe express trains reached 23 European countries, the scope of international road transport cooperation expanded to 19 countries, waterway international transport routes covered more than 100 countries, civil aviation routes reached 64 countries and regions. Deepen foreign exchanges and cooperation, join nearly 120 multilateral treaties in the field of transportation, actively participate in the affairs of international organizations, cooperate in the construction of major projects such as the "two major" highways of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the orange line project of Lahore rail transit, and the Sino-Russian Heihe Highway Bridge, participate in the construction and operation of overseas ports such as the port of Piraeus in Greece, the port of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and the port of Gwadar in Pakistan, and the level of opening up and cooperation with the outside world has been significantly improved. During the COVID-19 epidemic, China-Europe express trains and ocean-going freighters shuttled day and night to ensure the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain, reflecting China's responsibility.
In the great practice of leading the development of the transportation industry, the party has made achievements that have attracted worldwide attention and accumulated valuable practical experience. First, we must always adhere to the party's overall leadership and build a political guarantee for the sustained and healthy development of the transportation industry. Second, we must always adhere to serving the people and ensure that the people share the fruits of transportation reform and development. Third, we must always adhere to development as the first priority, and constantly liberate and develop the productive forces of transportation. Fourth, we must always adhere to reform and opening up and enhance the driving force and vitality of transportation development. Fifth, we must always adhere to the cohesion of all parties and mobilize all positive factors to promote the continuous development of transportation. Sixth, we must always persist in administering the party in an all-round and strict manner and create a good political ecology for accelerating the construction of a strong transportation country.
The party's unity has led the people to accelerate the construction of a strong transportation country
Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. Looking back at the centenary course of our party's leadership in the development of the transportation industry, using history to reflect reality and look at the future from a distance, it is important to be more firm in the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, more consciously remember the original mission, and accelerate the construction of a strong transportation country.
Transportation is the key to rejuvenating the country and the foundation of a strong country, and we must attach great importance to and make overall plans. Transportation is an important basic, pioneering, strategic industry and important service industry for economic and social development. The Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China elevated the construction of a transportation power into a national strategy, and planned the development of transportation and coordinated transportation work from the perspective of the overall situation and strategy of economic and social development. On the new journey, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, continuously enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve "two safeguards", and implement and reflect the party's leadership in the whole process and all fields of accelerating the construction of a transportation power. It is necessary to plan and promote the transportation work around the overall development of the cause of the party and the state, especially with the "Outline for the Construction of a Strong Transportation Country" and the "Outline of the National Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Transportation Network Planning" as the guide, accelerate the construction of a strong transportation country, and better play the role of leading and serving in building a modern socialist country.
Transportation is a major event in people's livelihood, and we must continuously improve the people's sense of gain, happiness and security. Transportation is an important symbol of social development and progress, which is related to the national economy and people's livelihood and serves hundreds of millions of people. On the new journey, we must practice the people-centered development thinking, adhere to the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people as the starting point and foothold, focus on the people's needs for a better life, strive to build first-class facilities, first-class technology, first-class management, first-class services, vigorously promote the equalization of basic public services in transportation, accelerate the construction of people's satisfaction with transportation, and strive to let the people enjoy more convenient, fairer and more efficient transportation services, so that the fruits of transportation development will benefit the masses more. Promote common prosperity.
Transportation is an important part of the smooth circulation of the national economy, and it must show new deeds in the new development pattern of service construction. Transportation is the foundation of the modern circulation system, an important link between domestic and international double circulation, and plays an important role in optimizing the industrial layout and improving circulation efficiency. On the new journey, we must closely focus on the overall situation of economic and social development, adhere to deepening the structural reform of the supply side, accelerate the construction of a safe, convenient, efficient, green and economic modern comprehensive transportation system, accelerate the construction of a modern logistics supply chain system, continuously improve the modern governance capabilities of transportation, and highlight the new responsibilities and new actions of transportation in the new development pattern of service construction.
Transportation is an important area for the implementation of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and we must adhere to the important concept of intersecting with the world and communicating with the times. It is necessary to focus on promoting the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road", promote global transportation cooperation, write a new chapter of infrastructure connectivity, unimpeded investment and trade, and intermingling and communication among civilizations, implement global development initiatives, and build a global community of destiny for development. At present, the century-old changes and the century epidemic are intertwined and superimposed, and China's role in global governance is becoming increasingly prominent. On the new journey, we must adhere to the world of transportation, conform to the general trend of world development, practice the global governance concept of consultation, co-construction and sharing, strengthen the "hard connection" of infrastructure and the "soft connection" of institutional rules, continuously shape the new advantages of international cooperation and competition in transportation, strive to provide Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for global transportation governance, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
From a big transportation country to a strong transportation country, we must deepen reform, blaze new trails, open up and cooperate, and be the pioneer of China's modernization. Building a strong transportation country is an inherent requirement for comprehensively building a socialist modern power, and transportation modernization is an important symbol of national modernization. In the face of the new situation and new requirements, there are still unbalanced and insufficient problems such as poor quality, low efficiency and weak resilience in transportation, and it still requires long-term and arduous efforts to promote China's transportation from "big" to "strong". On the new journey, we must put the acceleration of the construction of a transportation power in a more prominent position, persist in deepening reform, pioneering and innovating, opening up and cooperation, accelerate the formation of institutional mechanisms and market environments for promoting the high-quality development of transportation, and constantly stimulate the motivation and vitality of transportation development, so that people can enjoy their own travel and the flow of goods, and provide a solid transportation guarantee for the construction of a modern socialist country.
Source | Learning Times, November 19, 2021, 1st edition
Planning | Solid on
Editor-in-charge | Zhai Yongwei