In the first three quarters, the overall operation of China's transportation economy was stable and stable, and the main indicators such as freight volume, port cargo throughput, and cross-regional personnel flow all achieved growth.
Looking at the business freight volume, in the first three quarters, the business freight volume was 41.63 billion tons, an increase of 3.3%. By way of analysis, the total road freight volume was 30.66 billion tons, up 3.1% year on year; Waterway freight volume reached 7.16 billion tons, up 4.8% year on year.
Looking at the port cargo throughput, in the first three quarters, the country's ports completed 12.97 billion tons of cargo throughput, an increase of 3.4%. In terms of structure, domestic trade throughput increased by 1.7% and foreign trade throughput increased by 7.6%. Container throughput reached 250 million TEU, an increase of 7.7%.
In terms of personnel flow, cross-regional personnel flow, the first three quarters completed 49.09 billion person-times of cross-regional personnel flow, an increase of 5.4%. The number of highway passenger trips reached 45.07 billion, up 4.7% year on year. Waterways carried 210 million passengers, up 1.1% year-on-year.
In terms of urban passenger transport, 79.45 billion passengers were transported in the first three quarters, an increase of 7.3% year-on-year. Public trams, taxis and urban rail transit carried 28.71 billion, 26.77 billion and 23.92 billion passengers respectively, up 3.5%, 8.0% and 11.3% year on year respectively.
In addition, in the first three quarters, China completed 2.7 trillion yuan of fixed asset investment in transportation. Among them, the investment in highway and water transportation was 1.9 trillion yuan and 157.6 billion yuan respectively.