Transport Minister: Highway tolls will be made public to the public on a regular basis

Minister of Transport Li Shenglin wrote in the latest issue of Qiushi magazine saying that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the scale and scope of the toll road development will be strictly controlled, the pricing mechanism for fees will be improved, and the charging and operation of the public will be made public on a regular basis.

In the article entitled “Accelerating the Development of Modern Transportation and Boosting Social Management Innovation”, Li Shenglin said that during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, it is necessary to coordinate the development of non-fare toll highways based on ordinary roads and Highway-based low-cost, high-efficiency toll highway system. It not only embodies the public service function of the government, but also allows public finance funds to invest more in the field of non-toll highways. It also helps to encourage private capital and social capital to invest in highway construction.

Li Shenglin said that in response to issues such as densely-populated sites, high fees for a few road sections, and insufficiency of services in some areas where people’s reports are concentrated, clean up and regulate the operation of toll highways, improve the supervision system for toll roads, and strictly control the scale and scope of toll roads. We will improve the pricing mechanism for fees and charges, publish fees and operations to the public on a regular basis, ensure reasonable and transparent charges, and promote the establishment of an efficient and clean toll road management system.

The implementation of the "transit city" project "should strive to ease the problem of local highway sections and urban traffic congestion." Li Shenglin said that the expansion of the transportation channel with large traffic volume should be expanded to speed up access to the "broken road" in the national highway network.

We will adhere to the strategy of giving priority to public transport, speed up the formulation of the "Urban Public Transport Regulations," and implement the demonstration project of "transportation city" to promote the intelligent construction of urban public transport.

Solve the problem of taxi management In addition, it is necessary to promote the stable and healthy development of the taxi industry, speed up the construction of laws and regulations, and guide all localities to gradually study the outstanding issues in the operation and management of taxis in light of actual conditions, from information construction, reputation assessment of service quality, qualification management In other areas, we will promote the healthy and stable development of the taxi industry.

Number (as of the end of 2010)

National highways: The total length of traffic reached 3.984 million kilometers, leaping to the 2nd place from the 7th place in the world at the beginning of reform and opening up; highways from scratch, reaching 74,000 kilometers, ranking 2nd in the world; road freight volume from the world The sixth place took the first place.

Inland navigation: navigation mileage ranks first in the world, and port cargo and container throughput ranks first in the world for eight consecutive years.

Civil Aviation Transportation: The total turnover has risen to the second place from the 37th in the world.

Rural roads in the country: The total mileage is 3.45 million kilometers, and the bus connections in townships and villages have reached 98% and 88% respectively.