People's Republic of China Maritime Transport Profile 2026
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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
MARITIME TRANSPORT PROFILE
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Maritime assets
Port area in 2025
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Activity
Container port throughput
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Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Import)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Import)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Export)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Export)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Connectivity and performance
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Liner shipping connectivity index
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Remoteness index
Sustainable freight transport index
Percent of firms identifying transport as a major constraint
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Shipping emissions
EDGAR GHG 2025
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Cybersecurity
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Disaster monitoring
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Economic instruments - General
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Freight and logistics improvements - General
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Freight intermodality - General
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Increasing transport activity
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Innovations and digitalization - General
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Managing transport GHG emission
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Modal shift
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Port electrification
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Promote preparedness and rapid recovery of transport function
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Rail infrastructure expansion
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Shipping efficiency improvements
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Shipping port infrastructure improvements
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2030 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | 2025 | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2030 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | 2024 | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2027 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | 2024 | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2035 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | 2024 | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2027 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | 2024 | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2027 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2024 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | 2023 | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2025 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2027 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | 2023 | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2027 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2025 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | 2022 | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2025 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | 2022 | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2030 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | 2021 | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2025 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | 2021 | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | 2021 | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2025 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | 2021 | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2025 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | 2021 | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2035 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | 2020 | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2035 |
Policy Measures
| Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy | Biofuels | Actively promote the application of clean energy such as electricity, liquefied natural gas (LNG), biodiesel, green alcohol, green ammonia, and green hydrogen on ships. Continue to improve the green fuel supply capacity for transportation. Accelerate the breakthrough of green fuel production technology bottlenecks and gradually improve the efficiency of green fuel preparation. Promote the construction of a number of green fuel production bases and accelerate the improvement of liquefied natural gas (LNG), biodiesel, green alcohol, green ammonia, hydrogen energy, bio-jet fuel and other supply capabilities. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | Promote the construction of new energy and clean energy refueling and charging and replacement facilities, improve the ship fuel refueling operation and safety supervision system, and accelerate the formulation of standards such as charging facility construction. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Capacity building - General | Accelerate the development of shipping services. Actively develop traditional shipping services such as ship management, ship agency, freight agency, and ship brokerage, and promote large-scale, standardized, and digital development. Enhance the basic service capabilities of Chongqing Upper Yangtze River Shipping Center and Wuhan Middle Yangtze River Shipping Center in terms of ship trading, shipping information consultation, etc., and actively develop modern shipping services such as shipping finance and shipping insurance. Give full play to the river-sea transport service functions of Nanjing Regional Shipping Logistics Center, Wuhu Ma'anshan River-Sea Transport Hub, and Zhoushan River-Sea Transport Service Center, and create a regional shipping service cluster. Strengthen transportation safety management, strengthen the construction of safety production standardization, and implement hierarchical and classified management of key enterprises. Improve the level of emergency rescue, strengthen the construction and layout of emergency rescue bases in key waters such as reservoirs and lakes, strengthen the construction of inland deep-water emergency rescue capabilities, and establish an emergency rescue cooperation mechanism with trunk and branch linkage and inter-provincial coordination. Strengthen talent and cultural construction. Strengthen the training of scientific and technological leaders and build a large army of high-quality workers. Strengthen vocational education and conscientiously organize and implement the water transport professional qualification system. Encourage shipping companies to increase investment in crew training, improve the quality and professional level of inland waterway crews, promote inland waterway shipping companies to establish a stable crew team, and increase the proportion of self-owned crews. Strengthen the construction of transportation administration and waterway traffic law enforcement teams. Build a high-end shipping think tank and actively cultivate strategic talents for industry development. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Coordinate planning across government agencies | Strengthen the standardization and regularization of market supervision, and promote fair and unified market supervision. Establish and improve a cross-regional and cross-departmental joint law enforcement mechanism. Relying on the relevant national information sharing platform, promote cross-departmental and cross-industry data sharing, and promote mutual recognition of supervision and law enforcement cooperation. Departments at all levels of transportation, industry and information technology, finance, natural resources, ecological environment, water conservancy and other departments should strengthen coordination, give full play to the enthusiasm of both the central and local governments, provide financial support and element guarantees, and jointly promote the high-quality development of inland waterway transportation. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Development of shipping/ maritime/ inland water transport (IWT) plan/ policy | The Yangtze River Delta Inland Shipping High-quality Development Pilot Zone has been basically completed. Accelerate the elimination of high-energy-consuming and high-emission old transport ships, and study and formulate the "Ship Exhaust Smoke Limits and Measurement Methods". Encourage the implementation of support policies such as priority berthing and priority lock passing for new energy and clean energy ships. Improve the legal and regulatory system, promote the revision of the "Port Law of the People's Republic of China", "Waterway Management Regulations of the People's Republic of China", and "Inland Waterway Traffic Safety Management Regulations of the People's Republic of China", and promote the improvement of the local water transport regulations system. | 2025 |
| Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy | EV charging infrastructure | Coordinate the planning of the clean energy supply guarantee system for transportation. Carry out the planning of the network of charging (replacement) stations for roads and waterways, strengthen the coordinated layout with the planning of power grids, and improve the level of local clean energy guarantee. Improve the planning of the green fuel filling system for vehicles and ships, and systematically promote the development of green fuel filling facilities and equipment for vehicles and ships. Vigorously promote intelligent charging facilities and vehicle-grid interaction technologies, incorporate vehicle-grid interaction into the power demand side management, and coordinate with the construction of the power market. Encourage the promotion of new models and the incubation of emerging industries. Aggregate resources such as distributed power sources, electric vehicles, and charging (replacement) facilities to create a virtual power plant in the transportation field. Guide innovations in business models such as vehicle-battery separation, vigorously develop emerging industries such as battery asset management and new energy transportation equipment financing and leasing, and create an innovation platform for the intelligent integration of vehicle-station-points-network. Promote the innovative development of a new pan-automotive ecosystem that deeply integrates new energy vehicles with smart energy, smart transportation, and smart cities. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Excavation/dredging | Build green and beautiful waterways. Actively promote the construction and maintenance of green waterways, strictly implement ecological protection and restoration measures, develop and apply new structures, new materials, new processes, and new equipment, and carry out waterway regulation, maintenance and dredging of sand, and comprehensive utilization of earth and stone in accordance with the law and in an orderly manner. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Freight and logistics improvements - General | Stimulate the vitality of market operators. Guide port and shipping companies to extend upstream and downstream businesses, provide "end-to-end" supply chain services such as multimodal transport, logistics subcontracting, warehousing and distribution, and transform into full-process logistics operators and comprehensive transportation service providers. Vigorously cultivate and develop specialized, special and new small and medium-sized shipping companies, encourage mergers and reorganizations based on ship assets, and make them stronger and better and develop in a staggered manner. Strengthen the connection between inland waterway shipping and key port-related industries and logistics industries, and promote the realization of "port-to-park" short branch waterways in areas with conditions. Promote the coordinated development of ports, industries and cities. Encourage inland port enterprises to expand the hinterland of the port market and promote the development of upstream and downstream industries such as bulk commodity trading, agricultural product processing, and cross-border e-commerce. Give full play to the role of inland waterway shipping in promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries such as petrochemicals, metallurgy and building materials, and actively serve the development of emerging industries such as new energy vehicles and power batteries. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Green logistics program | Regularly operate the long-term mechanism for pollution prevention and control of ships and ports in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Increase the proportion of clean transportation in the collection and distribution of bulk goods such as coal, coke, and iron ore at inland ports, and give priority to clean transportation in new, renovated, and expanded port areas. Promote the use of new energy sources in ports that meet the conditions for adding and replacing operating machinery and vehicles in ports in accordance with local conditions. Promote the construction of dust suppression facilities and fully enclosed transformation of dry bulk cargo terminals in a stable and orderly manner. Promote the installation of oil and gas recovery facilities on oil tankers and terminals. | 2025 |
| Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy | Green shipping program | Promote the development of green and low-carbon ships. Scrap and update old operating ships with high energy consumption and high emissions, and vigorously support the development of new energy and clean energy powered ships. Explore the sharing and application of mobile ship equipment such as standardized fuel tanks and box power supplies, support the application of photovoltaic power generation technology on inland ships, and actively promote the application of clean energy such as electricity, liquefied natural gas (LNG), biodiesel, green alcohol, green ammonia, and green hydrogen on ships. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Green shipping program | Develop fleet transportation in accordance with local conditions. Support the innovative development of green and efficient pusher fleets in the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Heilongjiang, promote large-scale applications, and develop fixed-route fleet transportation for bulk cargoes. Encourage the Yangtze River Delta and other water network regions to actively cultivate fleet operators and explore the development of a combined transport mode of motor ships and barges. Guide other regions with conditions to develop fleet transportation in accordance with local conditions based on navigation conditions and cargo supply. Promote the research and demonstration application of ship formation navigation technology. Actively develop green ship propulsion technology and accelerate the construction of a green and intelligent ship technical specification system. Accelerate the application of battery power technology in small and medium-sized ships, short and medium-distance transportation and other scenarios, and encourage the large-scale application of electric ships on a fixed schedule and fixed route. Accelerate the elimination of high-energy-consuming and high-emission old transport ships, and study and formulate the "Ship Exhaust Smoke Limit and Measurement Method". Build green and beautiful waterways. Actively promote the construction and maintenance of green waterways, strictly implement ecological protection and restoration measures, develop and apply new structures, new materials, new processes, and new equipment, and carry out waterway regulation, maintenance and dredging of sand, and comprehensive utilization of earth and stone in accordance with the law and in an orderly manner. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Hydrogen | Accelerate the application of green and low-carbon technology in ports, promote the use of new energy and clean energy such as green electricity, hydrogen, LNG and other new energy and clean energy in port machinery and port transportation equipment, encourage the development of distributed energy, and build inland river near-zero carbon terminals. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | The proportion of inland waterway freight volume and cargo turnover in the comprehensive transportation system has been further increased. Improve the service level for smooth waterway network. Implement the inland waterway system interconnection project, accelerate the construction of trunk and branch waterway networks, clear bottlenecks, and vigorously promote the upgrading of the inland waterway networks in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. Strengthen waterway maintenance and maintenance of navigation buildings and dams at shipping hubs, and optimize the operation and scheduling of navigation buildings. Promote the improvement of the coverage level of mobile communication networks for inland high-grade waterways, and accelerate the formation of a "one map" of national high-grade waterway electronic waterway maps. Improve waterway service functions, strengthen anchorage construction and management, improve the anchorage support capabilities of dangerous goods ships along the Yangtze River, and create a number of water service areas with complete functions and efficient services. Improve the level of ship standardization and specialization. Combined with the port and waterway infrastructure conditions, orderly promote the development of large-scale inland river ships. Optimize inland river navigation standards and lock design specifications, formulate and publish green and intelligent inland river ship catalogs, and guide the application of standardized and serialized ship types that meet the needs of different application scenarios. Build green and beautiful waterways. Actively promote the construction and maintenance of green waterways, strictly implement ecological protection and restoration measures, develop and apply new structures, new materials, new processes, and new equipment, and carry out waterway regulation, maintenance and dredging of sand, and comprehensive utilization of earth and stone in accordance with the law and in an orderly manner. Encourage regions with conditions to build beautiful waterways according to local conditions, and organize and carry out "beautiful waterways" construction actions with beautiful facilities, beautiful environment, beautiful services, and beautiful humanities as the connotation. Serve regional economic development. Give full play to the role of the Yangtze River, Xijiang River and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, promote the upgrading of traditional industries and the development of emerging industries along the river, and serve the implementation of major national regional strategies such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the integration of the Yangtze River Delta. Actively build water transport channels connecting rivers and seas in the central and western regions to serve and support the rise of the central region and the development of the western region. Promote the construction of new canals such as Jianghuai and Pinglu to support the development of river basin economy by relying on inland waterway shipping. Strengthen the comprehensive development, utilization, maintenance and management of international river waterways at the border, and support the development and opening up of border areas. Promote the construction of tourist waterways, improve the functions and service standards of water tourism facilities, and continuously improve the quality of inland river tourism passenger services. Strengthen the protection of shipping historical culture and landscape resources such as the ancient canal, and fully tap the cultural tourism value of inland river shipping. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Innovations and digitalization - General | By 2030, the level of waterway networking and intelligence will be significantly improved, and the coverage rate of electronic waterway charts for high-level waterways will reach 85%. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Innovations and digitalization - General | Promote the improvement of the coverage level of mobile communication networks for inland high-grade waterways, and accelerate the formation of a "one map" of national high-grade waterway electronic waterway maps. Develop inland waterway online freight platforms. Orderly develop inland waterway online freight platforms that integrate ship-cargo matching transactions, intermodal services and other functions to promote the intensive and large-scale development of transportation. Support regions with conditions to explore first, and encourage relevant port and shipping companies to carry out online platform waterway cargo transportation business. Study and establish a management system that adapts to the development of new formats to promote the standardized and healthy development of the platform economy. Improve the functions of river basin and regional shipping public service platforms such as "Yangtze River e+", and strengthen the support of public data resources such as ports, waterways, ships, and maritime affairs. Promote the connection of rules and standards between inland waterway shipping and international shipping, highways, railways and other modes, promote the "paperless" operation documents and online business processing, strengthen information exchange and data sharing, and promote the "single document to the end" of intermodal transport. Promote the application of intelligent sensing equipment, digital twins and other technologies in high-level waterways and major inland ports with conditions. Relying on full-process digital credentials and blockchain and other technologies, vigorously promote the digital development of shipping trade and expand and enrich application scenarios. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Intelligent transport systems (ITS) | Promote the intelligence of industry management. Improve the port and waterway operation monitoring mechanism, make full use of intelligent supervision methods, and make daily supervision and emergency response visible, controllable, commandable, and dispatchable. Actively promote "Internet + supervision" to improve the efficiency of industry supervision. Promote the application of "smart card gates" and "ship AI smart monitoring" to improve the level of ship safety supervision. Relying on the relevant national information sharing platform, promote cross-departmental and cross-industry data sharing, and promote mutual recognition of supervision and law enforcement cooperation. Promote the joint dispatch of ships passing through locks across regional navigation buildings, and promote smart ship passing lock services and new models of intelligent lock management. Promote the intelligence of facilities and equipment. Research and formulate evaluation standards for the construction of smart ports and smart waterways, promote the application of intelligent sensing equipment, digital twins and other technologies in high-level waterways and major inland ports with conditions, and promote the digitalization and intelligent development of port and shipping infrastructure. Vigorously develop inland intelligent shipping, strengthen the integration of port, waterway and ship systems, actively develop ship intelligent auxiliary systems and ship-shore collaborative technologies, study the new navigation mode of "shore-based driving control and ship-side duty", and encourage regions with conditions to develop intelligent shipping routes based on actual conditions to define suitable sections. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Logistics digitalization and technology | Orderly develop inland waterway online freight platforms that integrate ship-cargo matching transactions, intermodal services and other functions to promote the intensive and large-scale development of transportation. | 2025 |
| Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Actively promote the application of clean energy such as electricity, liquefied natural gas (LNG), biodiesel, green alcohol, green ammonia, and green hydrogen on ships. Continue to improve the green fuel supply capacity for transportation. Accelerate the breakthrough of green fuel production technology bottlenecks and gradually improve the efficiency of green fuel preparation. Promote the construction of a number of green fuel production bases and accelerate the improvement of liquefied natural gas (LNG), biodiesel, green alcohol, green ammonia, hydrogen energy, bio-jet fuel and other supply capabilities. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Actively promote the application of LNG and methanol power technology in medium and large ships and medium and long-distance transportation scenarios, and explore and promote the application of hydrogen fuel cell power technology. Accelerate the application of green and low-carbon technology in ports, promote the use of new energy and clean energy such as green electricity, hydrogen, LNG and other new energy and clean energy in port machinery and port transportation equipment, encourage the development of distributed energy, and build inland river near-zero carbon terminals. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Maritime Safety | Strengthen the management of passenger transport by water. Encourage shipping companies to increase investment in passenger ship facilities and equipment safety and improve the inherent safety level. Strengthen market access management, implement safety supervision measures of "one line, one policy" for specific routes and "one area, one policy" for key waters, strictly implement measures to ban or restrict navigation in severe weather, implement the real-name system for boarding ships, strengthen safety inspections at passenger ports, and prevent and resolve major risks involving passenger ships. Implement the local responsibility for the safety of inland river ferry crossings in accordance with the law and build safe ferry transportation. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Modal shift | Vigorously develop water-to-water transshipment. Optimize the river-sea transport system of trunk lines such as the Yangtze River and Xijiang River, develop a number of key intermodal ports, and cultivate a number of river-sea intermodal brand routes. Improve the river (river)-sea intermodal transport system in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta water network areas, enhance the functions of terminal facilities, and improve intermodal efficiency. Study and expand the scope of direct river-sea transport and the types of goods transported on specific routes, and actively play the river-sea intermodal transport function of newly built sea access channels such as the Pinglu Canal and Xiaoqing River. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Nature-based solutions | Build green and beautiful waterways. Actively promote the construction and maintenance of green waterways, strictly implement ecological protection and restoration measures, develop and apply new structures, new materials, new processes, and new equipment, and carry out waterway regulation, maintenance and dredging of sand, and comprehensive utilization of earth and stone in accordance with the law and in an orderly manner. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Planning to reduce future vulnerabilities and minimizing losses | We will promote the construction of safe waterways, coordinate the development of waterways, bridges and ships, strengthen the management of safety risks and hidden dangers in key waters such as bridge areas, and prevent and resolve the safety risks of ships colliding with bridges and the safety risks of obstructing river flooding. We will deepen the construction of safe ports, continue to strengthen the safety management of dangerous goods port operations, and implement the dual prevention mechanism of safety production risk classification management and hidden danger investigation and management. | 2025 |
| Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy | Port electrification | Promote the comprehensive utilization of clean energy in ports and waterways according to local conditions. Combined with the existing conditions of ports, docks, and waterways, and under the premise of ensuring the safety of port operations and ship navigation, relying on harbors, warehouses, breakwaters, etc., promote the development and utilization of new energy such as ocean energy, photovoltaics, and wind power in situ according to local conditions. Encourage container hubs and seaports to scrap and update new energy and clean energy container trucks in ports. Rely on the layout of port facilities to build ship charging (replacement) stations and refueling stations. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Port electrification | Create green and low-carbon ports. Accelerate the application of green and low-carbon technologies in ports, promote the use of new energy and clean energy such as green electricity, hydrogen, and LNG in port machinery and port transportation equipment, encourage the development of distributed energy, and build inland river near-zero carbon terminals. Promote the use of shore power by ships when they are at port in accordance with the law. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Rail infrastructure expansion | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Rail infrastructure expansion | Accelerate the opening of the "last mile" of the railway to the port, develop a collection and distribution system that integrates various modes of transportation, and improve the level of facility connectivity. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Routine transport asset maintenance | Strengthen waterway maintenance and maintenance of navigation buildings and dams at shipping hubs, and optimize the operation and scheduling of navigation buildings. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Shipping efficiency improvements | The average net deadweight tonnage of inland waterway motor cargo ships nationwide will reach more than 1,900 tons. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Shipping efficiency improvements | Improve the service level for smooth waterway network. Implement the inland waterway system interconnection project, accelerate the construction of trunk and branch waterway networks, clear bottlenecks, and vigorously promote the upgrading of the inland waterway networks in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. Develop fleet transportation in accordance with local conditions. Support the innovative development of green and efficient pusher fleets in the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Heilongjiang, promote large-scale applications, and develop fixed-route fleet transportation for bulk cargoes. Encourage the Yangtze River Delta and other water network regions to actively cultivate fleet operators and explore the development of a combined transport mode of motor ships and barges. Guide other regions with conditions to develop fleet transportation in accordance with local conditions based on navigation conditions and cargo supply. Promote the research and demonstration application of ship formation navigation technology. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | The role of ports as comprehensive transportation hubs will be significantly played, the collection and distribution system will be more complete, and the main ports on the Yangtze River main line will achieve 100% coverage of railway access. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Strengthen the comprehensive transportation hub function of ports. Focus on the main inland ports, strengthen the gathering of resource elements, base on the comprehensive transportation system, and enhance the hub function. Accelerate the opening of the "last mile" of the railway to the port, develop a collection and distribution system that integrates various modes of transportation, and improve the level of facility connectivity. Coordinate and accelerate the construction, reconstruction and expansion of port terminals, revitalize the existing stock, optimize the incremental growth, and promote intensive and large-scale development. Strengthen the construction of passenger ports and terminals, improve the waiting service facilities, and enhance the quality of port passenger services. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Stakeholder involvement - General | Support the deepening of market cooperation between inter-provincial ports, promote the coordinated development of regional ports, and accelerate the cultivation of port groups in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River. | 2025 |
| Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy | Technical standards for general transport infrastructure | Strengthen support for standards and norms. Promote the development and utilization of clean energy for transportation infrastructure, electric heavy trucks, hydrogen heavy trucks, electric ships, vehicle-grid interaction, power batteries, charging (replacement) stations, hydrogen refueling stations and other related standards, and improve safety, energy conservation, environmental protection and other standards. Issue energy supply facilities and new energy ship interface standards and communication protocols, and coordinate the promotion of new energy ship energy supply public services. Promote the formulation of new energy ship refueling safety operation and inspection standards. Research and issue standards for the "production, storage and use" of green fuels for transportation. Promote mutual recognition of international standards, promote cooperation in the field of international standards, and accelerate the improvement of the green fuel certification system for transportation. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Transport demand management - General | Strengthen the release of market capacity and freight rate information, research and establish a market supply and demand early warning mechanism, and rationally guide the orderly deployment of ship capacity based on market demand. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Transport finance - General | Encourage local governments to innovate comprehensive waterway development models, actively expand investment and financing channels, deepen the use of electricity to promote navigation, and actively attract social capital to participate in investment and operation. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Transport institutional reform | Build a unified and open market. Regulate the charging behavior of enterprises in accordance with the law to prevent unreasonable charges caused by the abuse of market advantages. Clean up various regulations and practices that hinder the development of a unified inland waterway shipping market and fair competition, and promote the free flow and equal use of factors. Establish and improve a new regulatory mechanism based on credit, strengthen the use of credit results, and implement the "double random, one public" regulatory system. Build an efficient maritime regulatory system and further promote the integration of maritime supervision and service guarantee. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Transport labels - General | Promote the standardization of ship signs and labels, and strengthen the energy efficiency management of inland river ships. | 2025 |
| Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Scrap and update old operating ships with high energy consumption and high emissions, and vigorously support the development of new energy and clean energy powered ships. | 2025 |
| Opinions on promoting high-quality development of inland waterway transportation | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Accelerate the scrapping and renewal of old operating ships, vigorously develop specialized transport ships such as container and commercial vehicle roll-on/roll-off, and optimize the ship capacity structure. Accelerate the elimination of high-energy-consuming and high-emission old transport ships, and study and formulate the "Ship Exhaust Smoke Limits and Measurement Methods". | 2025 |
| China's Nationally Determined Contribution Report 2035 | EV in water transport | advance the electrification of urban public service vehicles, and pursue cleaner energy use in shipping and aviation | 2025 |
| China's Nationally Determined Contribution Report 2035 | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Promote clean transportation in key industries, enterprises, and ports to create pilot zones for clean transportation. | 2025 |
| China's Nationally Determined Contribution Report 2035 | Innovations and digitalization - General | enhance the greenness and intelligence of new or renovated stations, airports, and port terminals, | 2025 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | Alternative fuels - General | gradually expand the application scope of new energy ships such as electric, liquefied natural gas powered, biodiesel powered, and green methanol powered. | 2024 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | Biofuels | gradually expand the application scope of new energy ships such as electric, liquefied natural gas powered, biodiesel powered, and green methanol powered. | 2024 |
| Guidance on implementing vigorous renewable energy substitution actions | Biofuels | Develop green fuels such as biogas, biodiesel, and bio-jet fuel according to local conditions. Encourage biomass power generation projects to provide auxiliary services such as peak regulation. Orderly promote the pilot application of green and clean liquid fuel for vehicles. Support qualified regions to carry out pilot operations of biodiesel, biojet fuel, biogas, green hydrogen ammonia alcohol, etc. in the fields of ships and aviation. Establish and improve the market mechanism for renewable energy heating, biogas, and clean low-carbon hydrogen. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Improving Transportation Standards (2024-2027) | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | Accelerate the standards upgrading of methanol fuel refueling on water. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Large-Scale Equipment Renewal in Transportation | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | Improve the supporting infrastructure for new energy and clean energy powered transport ships. Strengthen the intensive and efficient use of shoreline resources, support the construction of LNG, biodiesel, green alcohol and other bunkering and charging (sawpping) supply service guarantee capabilities, support the renewal of refueling (gas) outlets and water service areas with conditions to improve the comprehensive service level of supporting facilities, explore the construction of green shipping comprehensive service areas, and accelerate the construction of a convenient and complete supporting infrastructure network. Strengthen the risk assessment of new energy bunkering operations and key ship supporting system equipment such as power systems, storage and transportation and bunkering systems. Accelerate the research on charging and battery swapping facilities for operating ships and the standards for the filling of biodiesel and methanol fuels. | 2024 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | Coordinate planning across government agencies | Focusing on the release of data value, improve the coordinated management and service mechanism of transportation, public security, meteorology, emergency, data, natural resources and other departments, and improve the digital management mechanism of road and waterway projects throughout their life cycle. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Data collection and repositories - General | Strengthen the collection and aggregation of video surveillance and production and operation data for key ports. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Development of shipping/ maritime/ inland water transport (IWT) plan/ policy | Based on the superior planning, organize the preparation of port and waterway layout plans for key regions such as the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, as well as provincial-level ports. Provinces with both sea and river infrastructure should coordinate the coordinated development of coastal and inland waterways, as well as ports and waterways. In principle, the 11 major ports newly included in the national plan should prepare port master plans by 2025. The preparation of each port master plan should coordinate the intensive and optimized utilization of existing port facilities and the scientific planning of incremental port resources. A combination of rigid and flexible planning methods should be explored, and environmental impact assessments should be conducted in accordance with regulations. Provincial-level transportation authorities should benchmark against the national plan and organize research on medium- and long-term port and shipping infrastructure development tasks (through 2035). The Ministry will support the inclusion of key projects within these tasks in relevant national strategies and plans, and use them as an important basis for formulating the industry's five-year development plan. Coastal ports should focus on specialized terminals for key cargo categories, multimodal port areas, and the optimal utilization of existing facilities, rationally determining construction goals, key projects, and phased implementation plans. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Large-Scale Equipment Renewal in Transportation | Economic instruments - General | Increase financial support. Continue to implement subsidies for the elimination and renewal of old operating vehicles and vessels, and include eligible equipment renewal projects in the scope of support from central funds. Encourage qualified localities to coordinate the use of central government-allocated urban transportation development incentive funds to support the renewal of new energy urban buses and power batteries. Study and formulate implementation rules for subsidies for scrapping and renewal of old operating vehicles and ships, clarify subsidy scope, subsidy standards, operating procedures, regulatory requirements and departmental responsibilities. Local transportation authorities should formulate supporting operating rules, refine implementation measures, and standardize work. | 2024 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | Economic instruments - General | Carry out car trade-in. Increase policy support, unblock circulation bottlenecks, and promote tiered and updated car consumption. Organize and carry out nationwide car trade-in promotion activities, encourage automobile manufacturers and sales companies to carry out promotion activities, and guide orderly competition in the industry. Support trade-in of eligible vehicles through the energy conservation and emission reduction subsidy funds arranged by the central government. Continue to implement the renewal subsidy for old operating vehicles and vessel, and support the renewal of old vessels, diesel trucks, etc. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Economic instruments - General | Taking advantage of the convergence of port logistics, trade flows and capital flows, we will build platforms for bulk commodity trading, logistics finance, etc., expand commercial service functions, and extend the industrial and trade chains. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | EV - General | Formulate and improve the transportation service guarantee measures for new energy vehicle power batteries, energy storage batteries, and large-capacity photovoltaic batteries, improve the layout of new energy vehicle port roll-on/roll-off terminals, and actively expand the transportation of new energy vehicle container ships and multi-purpose ships. Deepen the pilot of comprehensive electrification of vehicles in urban public areas. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | EV pilot projects | Deepen the pilot of comprehensive electrification of vehicles in urban public areas. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Excavation/dredging | Build green ports and waterways, encourage the construction and use of photovoltaic, wind, and shore-based power facilities, promote the use of new and clean energy, strengthen ecological and environmental protection and pollution control, conserve and intensively utilize land and other resources, and promote the comprehensive utilization of dredged soil. | 2024 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | Fleet-specific improvement for freight | Continue to implement the renewal subsidy for old operating vehicles and vessel, and support the renewal of old vessels, diesel trucks, etc. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | Freight and logistics improvements - General | By 2027, the cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of transportation and logistics will achieve remarkable results, and the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP will be reduced to about 13.5%. The national railway freight transportation turnover will increase by about 10% compared with 2023. the port container rail-water transport volume will increase by about 15% annually, and the reform of the comprehensive transportation system will make major breakthroughs. | 2024 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | Freight and logistics improvements - General | Continue to implement the renewal subsidy for old operating vehicles and vessel, and support the renewal of old vessels, diesel trucks, etc. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Freight and logistics improvements - General | Focusing on the national regional strategic development requirements, we will optimize the functional layout of ports, improve the regional logistics system, and support port and shipping companies in extending their service chains and expanding their service networks. Promote the research and development, application, and independent control of key technologies for automated and intelligent operations, such as port loading and unloading and warehouse operations. | 2024 |
| Implementation Plan for Promoting Low-Carbon Development in the Railway Industry | Freight intermodality - General | Vigorously promote the development of multimodal transport. Build a green and low-carbon economic logistics network with railways as the main body. Increase the proportion of railway dedicated lines access to major ports and logistics parks in coastal and inland ports. Strengthen the layout and construction of railway intermodal transport hubs, strengthen coordination and linkage with major logistics infrastructure such as trunk logistics channels and national logistics hubs, improve the layout of railway freight hubs and logistics bases, accelerate the transformation of railway stations in key areas to suit cargo transportation, integrate the resources of railway freight hubs and logistics bases, and strengthen the connection between railways and other modes of transportation. Accelerate the development of the “single-document system” and "one box system" for multimodal transport, study and formulate standards for information sharing and data transmission and exchange in multimodal transport, promote the sharing of railway container information with ship transportation, port operations, etc., accelerate the construction of railway overseas return points and return transportation organization systems, and gradually explore the function of railway transport documents and multimodal transport documents to realize property rights certificates. Continue to expand the scale of railway-water transport, promote the construction of railway-water transport systems for bulk goods and containers, focus on the connection between railways and sea transportation, and promote the establishment of rules coordination and mutual recognition mechanisms that are compatible with multimodal transport. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Improving Transportation Standards (2024-2027) | Green shipping program | Revise the sampling standards for oily sewage and domestic sewage in ship machinery spaces to improve the ability to regulate ship pollutant emissions. Revise standards for ship noise limits. Formulate resource recycling standards for port and terminal sewage. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Large-Scale Equipment Renewal in Transportation | Green shipping program | Accelerate the development of green and smart ship standard system, establish and improve new energy ships and key equipment and quality technical standards, and implement a green and smart ship standardization leading project. Accelerate the formulation and revision of standards such as fuel consumption limits and carbon emission intensity for operating ships. Strengthen the upgrading of energy consumption, emissions and technical standards for operating vehicles and ships. Benchmarking against international advanced levels, accelerate the improvement of the safety and green development level of operating trucks, operating ships and other means of transport. | 2024 |
| Action Plan to Effectively Reduce Logistics Costs in the Whole Society | Green shipping program | Strengthen the construction of domestic port storage facilities for the export of "New Three" electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products, and support efficient and convenient exports. Carry out new energy vehicle logistics improvement projects, strengthen the construction of port roll-on/roll-off terminals. Promote the establishment of a clean fuel supply guarantee system for ships. | 2024 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | Green shipping program | Vigorously support the development of new energy powered ships, improve the supporting infrastructure and standards for new energy powered ships, and gradually expand the application scope of new energy ships such as electric, liquefied natural gas powered, biodiesel powered, and green methanol powered. | 2024 |
| Opinions on strengthening the clean and efficient use of coal | Green shipping program | Increase the proportion of green collection and distribution in coastal and river ports, and promote the normal use of shore power by ships at ports in accordance with the law. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Green shipping program | Strengthen the intelligent development of national high-grade waterways such as the Yangtze River and the Xijiang River. Build green ports and waterways, encourage the construction and use of photovoltaic, wind, and shore-based power facilities, promote the use of new and clean energy, strengthen ecological and environmental protection and pollution control, conserve and intensively utilize land and other resources, and promote the comprehensive utilization of dredged soil. | 2024 |
| Guidance on implementing vigorous renewable energy substitution actions | Hydrogen | Support qualified regions to carry out pilot operations of biodiesel, biojet fuel, biogas, green hydrogen ammonia alcohol, etc. in the fields of ships and aviation. Strengthen the construction of charging infrastructure, gas stations, and hydrogen stations, and improve the urban and rural charging network system. Establish and improve the market mechanism for renewable energy heating, biogas, and clean low-carbon hydrogen. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Inland waterway transportation focuses on the task of achieving the standards for 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterways. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Research and promote the interconnection project of the inland waterway system, accelerate the construction of the "four vertical, four horizontal and two networks" national high-grade waterways, tap the navigation potential of the Yangtze River, Pearl River and other trunk waterways, accelerate the construction of the Pinglu Canal, and accelerate the preliminary work of the second phase of the Jingjiang River section in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the second phase of the Yangtze River Estuary South Channel Channel Management Project. | 2024 |
| Opinions on strengthening the clean and efficient use of coal | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Increase the proportion of green collection and distribution in coastal and river ports, and promote the normal use of shore power by ships at ports in accordance with the law. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Optimize the main trunk channels, orderly promote the expansion and upgrading of trunk waterways such as the Yangtze River trunk line, Xijiang shipping trunk line, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and Huaihe River trunk line, and build a main waterway channel that traverses the east and west and radiates from north to south. In accordance with the principle of "standard connection and process coordination", we will implement the plan to promote the construction of bottleneck sections of national high-grade waterways between provinces, promote the establishment of a mechanism for guidance from ministries and commissions and joint construction between provinces to address prominent issues, and effectively clear bottlenecks and checkpoints. In line with transportation development needs, vigorously and orderly promote the construction of substandard sections of tributary waterways to improve the accessibility of main and branch rivers. Coordinate to ensure water use for shipping, promote the construction of inland waterways, promote the integrated development of shipping and water conservancy, and achieve comprehensive utilization of water resources. Strengthen the intelligent development of national high-grade waterways such as the Yangtze River and the Xijiang River. Build green ports and waterways, encourage the construction and use of photovoltaic, wind, and shore-based power facilities, promote the use of new and clean energy, strengthen ecological and environmental protection and pollution control, conserve and intensively utilize land and other resources, and promote the comprehensive utilization of dredged soil. | 2024 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | Innovations and digitalization - General | Starting from 2024, over a period of about three years, support about 30 demonstration areas, build a number of demonstration channels and networks with integrated lines and networks, and strive to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of about 85% of busy national highways, about 25% of busy ordinary national roads, and about 70% of important national high-grade waterways. In terms of intelligent expansion, the efficiency of demonstration channel traffic will be improved by about 20%; in terms of safety and efficiency, the efficiency of emergency response to emergencies will be improved by about 30%; in terms of integration and innovation, a number of vehicle-road-cloud and ship-shore-cloud application scenarios, key technologies, and standards with high promotion value will be summarized; in terms of system and mechanism innovation, a number of new business forms and models such as personalized customization, networked collaboration, and industrial integration will be promoted. | 2024 |
| Guiding Opinions on the Construction of Smart Ports | Intelligent transport systems (ITS) | Intelligent port inspection facilities and equipment. Vigorously promote the networking and application of intelligent facilities and equipment, such as contactless and non-intrusive law enforcement equipment and Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment. Promote the upgrading and sharing of checkpoint equipment, video surveillance, and related intelligent facilities and equipment to improve port inspection efficiency and promote the efficient use of port resources. Increase the innovative application of new technologies for national border security, encourage the development and application of portable rapid screening and testing equipment, and achieve accurate, rapid, and effective inspections, thereby building an intelligent defense line for national border security. Intelligent port production and operation facilities and equipment. Encourage port operators to upgrade old facilities and equipment, and promote intelligent port operation modes such as intelligent loading and unloading, tallying, storage, and transshipment. Encourage ports with conditions to build automated unmanned terminals to achieve real-time monitoring of the operating status of facilities and equipment, automated container transshipment and stacking, intelligent planning and scheduling of transportation routes, and intelligent management of the entire port operation process. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Intelligent transport systems (ITS) | Promote the research and development, application, and independent control of key technologies for automated and intelligent operations, such as port loading and unloading and warehouse operations. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Logistics hub | We will focus on building world-class port and shipping facilities and a two-way land-sea radiating network, promote efficient linkage and integrated development with port-type national logistics hubs, build global shipping hubs and international logistics centers, and remove bottlenecks in international logistics. We will support international hub ports in taking the lead in serving the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, implementing major regional strategies, building free trade ports (pilot zones), and constructing smart green ports, leading the high-quality transformation and development of ports in the new era. | 2024 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | gradually expand the application scope of new energy ships such as electric, liquefied natural gas powered, biodiesel powered, and green methanol powered. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | Modal shift | By the end of 2025, the railway and water freight volumes will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | Operational efficiency in logistics | Encourage the development of international transit, cargo consolidation, domestic and foreign trade on the same ship and other services. Smooth the terminal circulation network of urban and rural logistics. Optimize and improve the urban freight service network, study and promote medium-sized vans for urban distribution, reasonably set the requirements for truck traffic areas, routes and time periods, and encourage the cancellation of restrictions on the traffic of new energy urban distribution trucks below light. Organize and carry out special pilot projects for reducing transportation logistics costs, improving quality and increasing efficiency, and building a strong transportation country. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | Port electrification | Improve the level of electrification of energy consumption in stations, railways, airports, etc., promote the use of new energy for non-road mobile machinery, and accelerate the matching and transformation of domestic transport ships and port shore power facilities. | 2024 |
| Guidance on implementing vigorous renewable energy substitution actions | Port electrification | Promote the use of shore power by ships at ports and encourage the pilot application of green electric smart ships. | 2024 |
| Implementation Plan for Promoting Low-Carbon Development in the Railway Industry | Port electrification | Promote the construction and regular use of railway, train, ferry terminals and ship shore power facilities. | 2024 |
| Opinions on strengthening the clean and efficient use of coal | Port electrification | Increase the proportion of green collection and distribution in coastal and river ports, and promote the normal use of shore power by ships at ports in accordance with the law. | 2024 |
| Opinions on strengthening the clean and efficient use of coal | Rail infrastructure expansion | Optimize the coal storage and transportation network. Continuously improve the coal railway transportation network, increase the proportion of railway dedicated lines accessed by large and medium-sized coal enterprises, accelerate the expansion and transformation of existing coal transportation railways, improve the layout of railway collection and transportation stations, strengthen the construction of collection and distribution railways, and fully release the capacity of heavy-load coal transportation railway corridors. Optimize the layout of coal ports and enhance the railway collection and distribution capacity. Further increase the proportion of medium and long-distance coal railway transportation in major coal producing areas, create a multimodal transport system with railways and waterways as the backbone, and effectively prevent and control dust pollution during transportation. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | Research in transport sector | Research and promote the interconnection project of the inland waterway system, accelerate the construction of the "four vertical, four horizontal and two networks" national high-grade waterways, tap the navigation potential of the Yangtze River, Pearl River and other trunk waterways, accelerate the construction of the Pinglu Canal, and accelerate the preliminary work of the second phase of the Jingjiang River section in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the second phase of the Yangtze River Estuary South Channel Channel Management Project. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Research in transport sector | Promote the research and development, application, and independent control of key technologies for automated and intelligent operations, such as port loading and unloading and warehouse operations. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Resilient transport infrastructure | Focus on key areas to enhance the safety and resilience of the water transport system, improve disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, and enhance the quality and durability of facilities. Strengthen support systems and other public welfare terminal maintenance. | 2024 |
| Five-year action plan for deepening the implementation of a people-oriented new urbanization strategy | Road infrastructure expansion | Accelerate the construction of urban clusters highway ring channels, and fully open up all kinds of unconnected highways and bottleneck sections in the urban agglomeration. Strengthen the operation foundation of urban road traffic, and build a road network system with reasonable hierarchy, complete functions, and smooth access. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Improving Transportation Standards (2024-2027) | Shipping efficiency improvements | Accelerate the standards upgrading for collection and reporting of ship energy consumption data. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Increasing Efficiency of Transportation and Logistics | Shipping improvement - General | Accelerate the improvement of the cleanliness level of vehicles and ships in ports, airports, logistics parks, etc., and accelerate the large-scale and standardization of water transportation equipment. | 2024 |
| Action Plan to Effectively Reduce Logistics Costs in the Whole Society | Shipping improvement - General | encourage the research and development and application of inland roll-on/roll-off ships. Improve the declaration requirements and procedures for inland river ship locks, and accelerate the promotion of online processing. Accelerate the large-scale and standardized construction of water transportation equipment. Strengthen the planning and construction of water transportation networks. Clear the bottlenecks of inland waterway and sea transport, and improve the organization and intelligence level of water transport. Implement the inland waterway system interconnection project, develop inland deep-water channels and large docks, plan and build a number of high-grade inland waterways and major inland port projects, and reasonably tap the traffic potential of the Yangtze River main channel. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Shipping improvement - General | Accelerate the scaling development and standardisation of water transport equipment. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Improving Transportation Standards (2024-2027) | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Promote the construction of intelligent port and shipping systems. Strengthen the formulation of a series of standards for remote control operations of automated dry bulk terminals, promote the development of technical standards for intelligent yards and intelligent tallying, strengthen the deep integration of digital technology and business, and support the digital empowerment of ports. Accelerate the formulation of standards such as the blockchain-based electronic platform for port entry and exit business, shipping blockchain architecture and data specifications, promote the development of shipping big data platform standards, promote the transformation and upgrading of inland shipping, and lead the development of new forms of intelligent shipping. | 2024 |
| Guiding Opinions on the Construction of Smart Ports | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | By 2025, shortcomings in facilities, equipment, and information technology at ordinary ports will be largely addressed, significantly improving port accessibility. The level of intelligence in facilities, equipment, and regulatory operations at key ports will be significantly enhanced. Hub ports will essentially be built into smart ports, playing a leading and exemplary role. By 2030, a favorable ecosystem will be established in which all participating ports are intelligently interconnected, coordinated, and efficiently operated, with some ports achieving internationally advanced levels of intelligence. By 2035, modern ports will essentially be built, leading the global development of smart ports. | 2024 |
| Opinions on strengthening the clean and efficient use of coal | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Optimize the layout of coal ports and enhance the railway collection and distribution capacity. | 2024 |
| Opinions on Strengthening the Planning and Construction of Coastal and Inland Ports and Waterways in the New Era | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Steadily advance the development of key container port areas in ports such as Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Suzhou, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beibu Gulf, and Yangpu, enhancing the international connectivity and hub functions of trunk container ports. Increase the loading and unloading capacity of large-scale ore terminals in ports such as Tangshan, Rizhao, Ningbo-Zhoushan, and Beibu Gulf. Promote the construction of large-scale crude oil terminals in Yingkou, Qingdao, Ningbo-Zhoushan, and Xiamen, and improve the layout of crude oil terminals. Promote the orderly development of LNG terminals, enhance the transshipment and storage capacity of grain terminals, and promote the construction of roll-on/roll-off terminals for commercial vehicles. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Improving Transportation Standards (2024-2027) | Transport asset management - General | Promote the construction of a standard system for the application of artificial intelligence in the transportation industry. Strengthen the development of standards for intelligent construction, testing, monitoring, and early warning in the construction and operation of transportation infrastructure such as roads, major bridges, tunnels, and port and navigation facilities. | 2024 |
| Guiding Opinions on the Construction of Smart Ports | Transport asset management information system | Visualization of port operations management. Digital technology is used to enhance the ability to perceive dynamic port operations. This system aggregates information on infrastructure, logistics operations, customs clearance, and other aspects to create a comprehensive data resource repository for all port elements. This system monitors key port operational indicators in real time, visualizes daily port operations, and analyzes and handles port incidents, achieving a comprehensive, one-stop overview of port operations management. | 2024 |
| Notice on Supporting and Guiding the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of Road and Waterway Transportation Infrastructure | Transport institutional reform | Promote institutional and mechanism innovation. Focusing on the release of data value, improve the coordinated management and service mechanism of transportation, public security, meteorology, emergency, data, natural resources and other departments, and improve the digital management mechanism of highway and waterway projects throughout their life cycle. Improve the standard and specification system, and strengthen the cross-regional integration of standards for various types of transportation network infrastructure. Explore the establishment of operating mechanisms such as data classification, grading, confirmation of rights, authorized use, and market-oriented circulation, and promote collaborative innovation in data technology products, application paradigms, business models, and institutional mechanisms. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction 2024-2025 | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Promote the scrapping and renewal of old transport ships, and promote the pilot project of electrification transformation of coastal and inland ships. | 2024 |
| Action Plan for Large-Scale Equipment Renewal in Transportation | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Accelerate the scrapping and renewal of old transport ships with high energy consumption and high emissions. Support the accelerated scrapping and renewal of old ships over 10 years old for inland passenger ships, 15 years old for cargo ships, and 15 years old for coastal passenger ships and 20 years old for cargo ships. Strengthen the supervision of ship fuel quality, improve the monitoring system of ship air pollutants, and implement the monitoring and supervision demonstration project of ship air pollutant emission control areas. Encourage regions with conditions to establish a mechanism for the withdrawal of existing fuel-powered ships. | 2024 |
| Action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewals and consumer product trade-ins | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Accelerate the scrapping and renewal of old ships with high energy consumption and high emissions. Continue to implement the renewal subsidy for old operating vehicles and vessel, and support the renewal of old vessels, diesel trucks, etc. | 2024 |
| Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Comprehensively Advancing the Construction of a Beautiful China | Green aviation program | Promote the green transformation of railway stations, civil airports, ports, logistics parks, and railway electrification | 2024 |
| Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Comprehensively Advancing the Construction of a Beautiful China | Green shipping program | Promote the green transformation of railway stations, civil airports, ports, logistics parks, and railway electrification | 2024 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Alternative fuels - General | Promote the application of oil-electric hybrid, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen fuel, ammonia fuel, methanol power and pure electric ships. | 2023 |
| The People's Republicof ChinaThird Biennial Update Reporton Climate Change | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | It is actively improving its public transportation system with various facilitationmeasures for the development of multi-modal transport, railway electrification, liquidnatural gas (LNG)-fueled vehicles and ships, energy-efficient and new-energyvehicles, electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure, shore power supply for ships and aircrafts, as well as compelled natural gas (CNG) and LNG dispensers. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Capacity building - General | Port enterprises and other shore power supply companies and shipping companies should strengthen the construction and training of relevant personnel teams, establish and improve shore power management, use, maintenance and maintenance systems and operating procedures, and improve the professional and technical support capabilities of shore power. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Capacity building - General | Improve shipping transaction and information service capabilities. Encourage enterprises, universities, research institutions, etc. to carry out research on major areas such as shipping service industry development strategy, international rules and systems, vigorously develop shipping information services, improve the level of shipping information services, and form a group of shipping think tanks and consulting service agencies with international influence. Support qualified shipping transaction institutions to compile different types of shipping indexes, build Hainan International Shipping Transaction Center with high standards, create shipping index suppliers with international influence, form a complete system, a full range of types, and a wide range of shipping index series to guide the orderly development of the shipping market. Improve the maritime legal service capabilities. Establish and improve the maritime legal system with Chinese characteristics. Rely on Dalian Maritime University, Shanghai Maritime University and other institutions to build international maritime law education centers. Support foreign arbitration institutions to set up business institutions in China to carry out foreign-related maritime arbitration business, explore and carry out temporary arbitration in the foreign-related fields of the free trade pilot zone and Hainan Free Trade Port that conforms to China's national conditions, and create conditions for my country to become the preferred place for resolving international maritime commercial disputes. Strengthen the guarantee of shipping talents. Optimize the education and training system and examination system for seafarers, and strengthen the training of seafarers in new energy and new business forms such as LNG. Optimize and strengthen the management of seafarer dispatching agencies, strengthen the management and rights protection of seafarers, and improve the labor dispute resolution mechanism for seafarers. Implement the main responsibility of shipping companies to train seafarers, and guide shipping companies to steadily increase the proportion of their own seafarers. Support the introduction of high-skilled shipping talents such as cruise shipping, and increase the supply of urgently needed talents. Give full play to the talent advantages of modern shipping services in Hong Kong and Shanghai International Shipping Centers, and promote the integrated and coordinated development of the shipping services industry. Strengthen the research and decision-making consulting support for new energy technologies for ships. Strengthen the buidling of the business environment and culture, innovate business models, optimize product supply, and improve service efficiency and quality. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Coordinate planning across government agencies | A special working group has been set up to promote the use of shore power for international container ships and cruise ships when they call at ports, led by relevant departments of the Ministry of Transport, State Grid Corporation of China, and China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., and participated by relevant provincial-level transportation authorities, power grid companies, the Ministry of Transport's Water Transport Research Institute, China Classification Society, China Ports Association, China Pilotage Association, China Shipowners' Association, and relevant port and shipping companies, to jointly accelerate the use of shore power. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Coordinate planning across government agencies | Strengthen organizational leadership. Local transportation authorities, branches of the People's Bank of China, regulatory bureaus of the State Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau, dispatched agencies of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, branches of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and other departments should strengthen communication and coordination, strengthen guidance on the development of modern shipping services in their regions in accordance with their duties, study and introduce supporting policies and measures in light of local realities, and strengthen institutional guarantees. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Cybersecurity | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Development of climate change/ low carbon plan/ policy | Research and formulate the annual assessment method for green and low-carbon development of the highway and waterway industries, the carbon emission accounting method for the highway and waterway industries, etc. Optimize and improve the statistical system of transportation energy consumption, and promote the update of transportation carbon emission accounting data. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Development of shipping/ maritime/ inland water transport (IWT) plan/ policy | Speed up the research and drafting of the revision of administrative regulations such as the Port Law, the Regulations on International Shipping, the Regulations on Inland Waterway Traffic Safety Management, the Regulations on Waterway Management, the Regulations on Maritime Ranks, and the Style and Wearing Methods of Maritime Rank Insignia. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Disaster monitoring | Comprehensively promote the "Internet Ten Supervision" of transportation, carry out big data risk warning applications for no less than 5 application scenarios; Strengthen the health monitoring of highway and waterway infrastructure. The health monitoring system for highway long bridge structures is officially operational, and a database for the transportation industry (highway and waterway) with comprehensive risks of natural disasters has been established. The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Economic instruments - General | Before the end of 2025, the demand (capacity) electricity fee will be waived for port shore power operators that implement a two-part electricity price. We will encourage local governments to introduce financial support policies for the construction and use of port and ship shore power. In principle, the comprehensive cost of shore power use (electricity charges + service fees) should not be higher than the ship fuel cost before the end of 2025, and we will promote the normalization of the use of shore power by ships in the jurisdiction when they are docked. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Economic instruments - General | Port companies and other relevant shore power operators are responsible for implementing the construction and renovation of shore power facilities, the testing of shore power facilities and the disclosure of related information, the publicity of shore power usage prices, and the implementation of shore power service guarantees in accordance with the division of labor. They should also sign agreements and coordinate equipment with shipping companies, establish systems for the use and maintenance of shore power, and encourage the implementation of preferential measures such as priority pilotage, priority berthing and unberthing, and reduction or exemption of shore power service fees. It is encouraged to give berthing fee discounts to ships using shore power at berthing ports, and provide shore power supply services for berthed ships. Refine and implement incentive measures. Relevant provincial transportation authorities actively strive for local support policies, improve the shore power service fee price policy, urge pilotage agencies and port enterprises to provide priority pilotage and berthing and unberthing services to international container ships and cruise ships that use shore power when berthing, reduce or exempt shore power service fees, and encourage port enterprises to give berthing fee discounts to ships that use shore power when berthing. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Economic instruments - General | Deepen the market-oriented reform of railway transportation prices, and strictly implement relevant regulations on port operation service charges. Optimize tax and financial support. Continue to implement the policy of halving the urban land use tax for land used by logistics companies for bulk commodity storage facilities. Agricultural product wholesale markets and farmers' markets are exempt from property tax and urban land use tax. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Education curriculum sensitizing about transport subsector | Encourage enterprises, universities, research institutions, etc. to carry out research on major areas such as shipping service industry development strategy, international rules and systems, vigorously develop shipping information services, improve the level of shipping information services, and form a group of shipping think tanks and consulting service agencies with international influence. Rely on Dalian Maritime University, Shanghai Maritime University and other institutions to build international maritime law education centers. Optimize the education and training system and examination system for seafarers, and strengthen the training of seafarers in new energy and new business forms such as LNG. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Emissions trading and carbon pricing | Study and promote the development of the shipping carbon trading market. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Excavation/dredging | Further strengthen the comprehensive utilization of dredged soil from waterways in the Yangtze River mainline and other areas. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Freight intermodality - General | The container volume of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor's rail-sea intermodal transport reached 1 million TEUs, and the cross-border railway volume reached 4 million tons. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Freight rail infrastructure improvement | Promote the high-quality development of China-Europe trains. Improve the collection and distribution system of port areas, industrial parks, etc., and promote the large-scale port areas with direct railway access to major ports. Promote the development of multimodal transport such as rail-water, road-rail, air-land, etc., strengthen the construction of railway (high-speed rail) express and air freight capacity, and innovate the development model of "trunk multimodal transport + regional distribution". | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Green shipping program | Improve the technical service capabilities of shipping. Promote the research and development of green and smart ships, products and systems, accelerate the promotion and application of digital systems, strengthen technical service capabilities such as ship construction and maintenance, and enhance the inspection and certification service capabilities of green and smart ships and products. Strengthen the management of ship inspection institutions and promote the overall improvement of ship inspection service levels and service quality. Organize the formulation and promotion of green and smart shipping technical standards. Strengthen the innovation capabilities building of national water equipment safety and reliability technology. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Hydrogen | Promote the application of oil-electric hybrid, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen fuel, ammonia fuel, methanol power and pure electric ships. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | The mileage of national high-grade waterways has reached about 19,000 kilometers. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Accelerate the construction of Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port, Pinglu Canal, etc. Further strengthen the comprehensive utilization of dredged soil from waterways in the Yangtze River mainline and other areas. Promote the construction of Heilongjiang and Yalu River waterways, promote the regulation of Tumen River waterways, actively promote the construction of Ruili River and Red River waterways, and accelerate the construction of Gwadar Port and Hambantota Port. | 2023 |
| National Water Network Construction Planning Outline | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Promote the integrated development of water networks and shipping, strengthen the overall planning of water networks and water transport channels, combine the comprehensive planning of river basins, scientifically demonstrate and orderly promote the development of inland waterway shipping. Consolidate the main shipping channels such as the Yangtze River Golden Waterway, the Pearl River, and the section of the Grand Canal south of the Yellow River, strengthen the planning and construction of projects such as the Jianghan Canal and the Jianghuai Canal, and promote the construction of the Pinglu Canal. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Innovations and digitalization - General | Accelerate the establishment of a ship energy efficiency management center in Shanghai and strengthen the management of ship energy consumption data. Improve the basic service capabilities of shipping. Strengthen the application of new generation information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, and comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of shipping service businesses such as ship brokerage, ship management, ship agency, passenger and freight agency, and navigation assistance services. Strengthen the application and promotion of digital platforms for shipping trade, strengthen data sharing and business collaboration, and further improve the level of shipping trade facilitation. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Promote the application of oil-electric hybrid, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen fuel, ammonia fuel, methanol power and pure electric ships. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Strengthen the guarantee of shipping talents. Optimize the crew education and training system and examination system, and strengthen the training of crew members in new energy and new business forms such as LNG. | 2023 |
| The People's Republicof China Fourth National Communication on Climate Change | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | A policy has been rolled out to prioritize LNG-power ships in passing through ship locks at the Three Gorges Dam, aimedat advancing the application of LNG. | 2023 |
| The People's Republicof ChinaThird Biennial Update Reporton Climate Change | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | It is actively improving its public transportation system with various facilitationmeasures for the development of multi-modal transport, railway electrification, liquidnatural gas (LNG)-fueled vehicles and ships, energy-efficient and new-energyvehicles, electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure, shore power supply for ships and aircrafts, as well as compelled natural gas (CNG) and LNGdispensers. | 2023 |
| China's Green Development in the New Era | Modal shift | Optimizing the structure of transport. China has accelerated the construction of special railway lines, promoted the shift of freight transport from road to railway and waterway, and encouraged intermodal transport. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Port electrification | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities. By the end of 2024, cruise ships of international cruise companies berthing at cruise ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. Regarding the installation coverage rate of shore power facilities at ports and terminals. We strive to achieve 100% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where cruise port enterprises berth cruise ships by the end of 2024. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Port electrification | Regarding the installation rate of ship power receiving facilities, by the end of 2025, 40% of international trunk container ships (including owned and leased ships) of international container liner companies that call at ports with shore power supply capabilities will have power receiving facilities. By the end of 2025, 90% coverage of high-voltage shore power facilities at the terminals where international hub seaport-related container port enterprises berth international trunk container ships. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Port electrification | Accelerate the transformation of ship power receiving facilities. Shipping companies shall actively promote the transformation of existing international trunk container ships and cruise ships that do not have power receiving facilities in accordance with the target of ship power receiving facility installation rate, strengthen technical connection with berthing terminals, and coordinate ship-shore power supply facilities with relevant ports and other shore power supply companies to ensure that ships can use shore power normally at berthing terminals. Regarding the normal use of ship and port shore power. By the end of 2023, ships and port enterprises that meet the conditions for use will achieve normal use of shore power. Regarding the power consumption of shore power at terminals. By 2025, the electricity consumption of international trunk container ships and cruise ships at berth will increase significantly compared to 2022. Accelerate the construction and transformation of shore power facilities at terminals. Port companies and other relevant shore power supply companies shall accelerate the construction and transformation of existing container terminals and cruise terminals without shore power facilities and shore power facilities that have been built but do not meet the power supply requirements in accordance with the target of shore power facility coverage at terminals, formulate new construction and transformation plans, complete inspections in a timely manner, and coordinate ship-shore joint debugging with relevant shipping companies, and strengthen the daily maintenance of shore power facilities at transformed terminals to ensure the quality of shore power supply. The construction and renovation of shore (receiving) power facilities for international containers, cruise terminals and ships shall comply with relevant international and domestic standards and specifications, and high-voltage shore (receiving) power facilities shall be constructed, and the capacity, voltage, frequency, and specifications and quantity of connectors of ship-shore facilities shall be ensured to match each other. | 2023 |
| The People's Republicof China Fourth National Communication on Climate Change | Port electrification | To advance the utilization of shore power for ship berthing, the Ministry of Transport hasformulated or revised regulations in terms of shore power for ports and ships andport engineering construction as well as mandatory industry standards on the constructionandtesting of shore power facilities of ports. | 2023 |
| The People's Republicof ChinaThird Biennial Update Reporton Climate Change | Port electrification | It is actively improving its public transportation system with various facilitationmeasures for the development of multi-modal transport, railway electrification, liquidnatural gas (LNG)-fueled vehicles and ships, energy-efficient and new-energyvehicles, electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure, shore power supply for ships and aircrafts, as well as compelled natural gas (CNG) and LNG dispensers. | 2023 |
| China's Green Development in the New Era | Port electrification | China has also updated the pollutant discharge standards gas (LNG) powered boats and transformation of shore power facilities, and accelerated the transformation or elimination of obsolete vehicles and boats. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Promote preparedness and rapid recovery of transport function | The treatment rate of newly discovered Class IV and Class V bridges on national and provincial trunk roads reached 100%, and no less than 1,000 kilometers of trunk road disaster prevention and control were completed each year. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Public transport intermodality - General | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Renewable energy | Encourage the exploration and development of commodity derivatives related to green fuel for ships. Guide the major insurance and reinsurance institutions to actively expand shipping insurance business and innovate to provide new energy ship insurance, ship construction insurance and other products. | 2023 |
| Action Plan on Demonstrating and Promoting the Use of Shore Power by Container Ships and Cruise Ships on International Routes at Ports (2023-2025) | Research in transport sector | The Water Transport Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport and China Classification Society are responsible for providing technical support in the construction (installation) and inspection of terminal and ship shore (receiving) power facilities, and joint debugging of ship and shore equipment. The Water Transport Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport is responsible for monitoring and analyzing shore power construction and usage data, as well as tracking the progress of related work. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Research in transport sector | Encourage enterprises, universities, research institutions, etc. to carry out research on major areas such as shipping service industry development strategy, international rules and systems, vigorously develop shipping information services, improve the level of shipping information services, and form a group of shipping think tanks and consulting service agencies with international influence. Strengthen the research and decision-making consulting support for new energy technologies for ships. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Shipping efficiency improvements | Implement the "Ship Energy Consumption Data and Carbon Intensity Management Measures". | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Shipping efficiency improvements | Accelerate the establishment of a ship energy efficiency management center in Shanghai and strengthen the management of ship energy consumption data. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Shipping fuels | Promote the application of oil-electric hybrid, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen fuel, ammonia fuel, methanol power and pure electric ships. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Shipping improvement - General | Provide high-quality services for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, further improve the passenger and vehicle transportation service capacity and safety management level of the Qiongzhou Strait, build tourist scenic roads such as the G225 Danzhou transit section, build the Hainan Free Trade Port International Ship Registration Center, and build the Hainan Free Trade Port Maritime Special Zone. Promote the construction of a technical specification system for smart ships and build a maritime service guarantee system that is compatible with the development of smart ships. Implement the upgrade and transformation of the shore-based system of the ship automatic identification system (AIS) and the upgrade and transformation of the water safety communication radio station in the sea area center. Create a replicable example of international mutual recognition and cooperation of electronic certificates for ships and crew members. Encourage commercial circulation enterprises to cooperate strategically with port, shipping, logistics and other enterprises to promote the integrated development of trade, port and shipping. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Shipping improvement - General | By 2035, a modern shipping service system with complete functions, high-quality services, openness, integration, intelligence and low carbon will be formed. The functions of international shipping centers and modern shipping service clusters will be significantly improved. The service capabilities of Shanghai International Shipping Center will be among the best in the world. Modern shipping service industry will achieve high-quality development. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | The level of integration, intensiveness and complexity of comprehensive transportation hubs has been significantly improved, with the railway access rate to major coastal ports exceeding 95% and the rail transit access rate to hub airports exceeding 80%. Promote the construction of smart ports, carry out pilot work on the construction of a smart port transportation power, and build no less than 5 automated container terminals. Promote the construction of smart waterways, organize and implement transportation science and technology demonstration projects around smart ship lock dispatching, smart waterway construction, management and maintenance, identify no less than 1 smart waterway project, build a joint intelligent dispatching system for cascade ship locks, and realize the production and release of new standardized products such as new generation electronic charts, hydrological information, and maritime safety information based on the S-100 standard. | 2023 |
| Five-Year Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Strong Transportation Nation (2023-2027) | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Accelerate the construction of Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port, Pinglu Canal, etc. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Transport finance - General | Enhance the efficiency of shipping financial services. Rely on free trade ports and pilot free trade zones to improve offshore shipping financing and fund settlement capabilities. Promote the fast-track service model for financing leasing in free trade pilot zones such as Tianjin, and optimize the business environment for ship financing leasing. Actively develop a variety of shipping financing methods and vigorously support the development of the green and intelligent ship industry chain. Increase the efforts to cultivate freight index futures at the Shanghai Futures Exchange. Encourage the exploration and development of commodity derivatives related to green fuel for ships, gradually improve the system of shipping futures products, serve the risk management needs of shipping companies, and do a good job in risk prevention and control of shipping derivatives. Strengthen shipping insurance service guarantees. Guide the major insurance and reinsurance institutions to actively expand shipping insurance business, and innovatively provide new energy ship insurance, ship construction insurance and other products. Encourage my country's insurance institutions to gradually and appropriately increase their retained risk quotas, and continuously improve their underwriting capacity and international recognition of credit guarantees. Support shipping insurance institutions to strengthen the construction of global service networks, encourage overseas network collaboration with relevant Chinese institutions, and continuously improve overseas claims settlement, loss prevention and other service capabilities. Support foreign shipping insurance institutions to set up institutions in China to provide insurance services. Support the development of international shipping reinsurance business, gather domestic and foreign reinsurance institutions, and enhance the service level of shipping reinsurance. Further standardize the management of Chinese shipowners' mutual insurance organizations and support their deep integration into the international shipping insurance market system. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Transport institutional reform | Expand and strengthen China's ship trading market, support Shanghai in steadily and orderly advancing the institutional reform of the Shanghai Shipping Exchange. Encourage ship trading institutions to innovate ship trading models, and attract domestic and foreign ships to enter the market for trading. | 2023 |
| Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Shipping Services | Transport Laws and Regulations- General | Strengthen legal safeguards. Promote the revision of laws and regulations such as the Maritime Code of the People's Republic of China, the Special Maritime Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, and the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on International Shipping, improve China's shipping legal system, and provide legal safeguards for the development of modern shipping services. Promote the construction of a credit system for the modern shipping services industry and maintain fair competition in the industry. | 2023 |
| The People's Republicof ChinaThird Biennial Update Reporton Climate Change | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | China is working to eliminate outdated and energy-intensive vehicles and ships. | 2023 |
| China's Green Development in the New Era | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | China has also updated the pollutant discharge standards gas (LNG) powered boats and transformation of shore power facilities, and accelerated the transformation or elimination of obsolete vehicles and boats. | 2023 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Ammonia | Actively explore the application of oil-electric hybrid, hydrogen fuel, ammonia fuel, and methanol-powered ships. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | Construction of liquefied natural gas filling stations will be carried out on the Yangtze River main channel, Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Xijiang shipping trunk line. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | Explore the construction of an inland waterway green shipping integrated service area that integrates shore power, ship charging, pollutant reception, LNG bunkering and other services. Deepen the promotion and application of inland LNG-powered ships, support the development of coastal and ocean-going LNG-powered ships, guide the implementation of the layout plan of the Yangtze River trunk line, Xijiang shipping trunk line, and Beijing-Hangzhou Canal LNG refueling terminals, promote the acceleration of the construction of inland ship LNG refueling stations, and promote the construction of coastal ship LNG refueling facilities. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Capacity building - General | Cultivate a transportation science and technology innovation ecosystem. Promote the deep integration of government, industry, academia, research and application in the field of transportation. Encourage leading enterprises to integrate transportation science and technology industry chain resources, cultivate a transportation science and technology industry ecosystem through open data, open platforms, and open scenarios, and build a transportation science and technology industry incubation base. Strengthen the construction of key scientific research platforms in the industry, promote the construction of key laboratories, technology innovation centers, etc., and cultivate national-level science and technology innovation bases. Emergency support capacity building. Build an emergency transportation comprehensive command and dispatch platform based on big data. Build a transportation safety emergency satellite system project and optimize the comprehensive navigation service function. Focusing on law enforcement boats, professional rescue ships, and ocean-going transport ships, ro-ro passenger ships, and passenger ferries of state-owned shipping companies, steadily promote the use of life jackets and lifeboats (rafts) with Beidou satellite emergency position indication functions. Organize and carry out comprehensive and special emergency drills. Promote the application of advanced safety emergency equipment in the field of transportation. Strengthen the construction of emergency professional teams and volunteer teams, and enrich the national emergency transportation reserve force. Improve the non-traditional security emergency command system and emergency transportation organization such as responding to major epidemics, preventing and responding to terrorist attacks, and ensuring information security. Build a new think tank alliance for transportation, optimize the mechanism for discovering leading talents and selecting project teams, deepen the reform of scientific research funding management, improve the talent evaluation system, vigorously cultivate and use strategic scientists, and create a large-scale team of young scientific and technological talents. Strengthen the training of innovative, application-oriented, and skilled talents, expand the team of high-skilled talents, and cultivate a large number of outstanding engineers. Strengthen the construction of soft power in transportation culture, promote the construction of high-quality transportation cultural projects, deepen the construction of transportation cultural and museum projects, and improve the civilized quality of transportation participants. Strengthen the construction of transportation all-media communication capabilities, and enhance the communication, guidance, influence, and credibility of transportation government media. Further strengthen discipline, improve work style, improve the capabilities and level of transportation law enforcement teams, and strictly regulate fair and civilized law enforcement. Innovate new mechanisms and methods for legal publicity and education, implement the responsibility system for popularizing the law, and cultivate a culture of transportation rule of law. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Development of air pollution plan/ policy | Implement the ship air pollutant emission control zone system. Improve the long-term mechanism for ship and port pollution prevention and control in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Development of air pollution plan/ policy | In terms of pollution prevention and control, cooperate in formulating and revising standards for sewage and exhaust emission limits for facilities and equipment such as ports, operating vehicles and ships, service areas, and automobile repairs; | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Development of transport adaptation/ emergency/ disaster/ recovery plan/ policy | Improve the comprehensive transportation emergency management system and mechanism, improve the emergency coordination mechanism and emergency plan system, and strengthen the construction of transportation dispatch and emergency command platforms. Strengthen safety supervision of waterway transportation, enhance navigation support and search-and-rescue capabilities, improve coastal and inland oil spill emergency equipment stockpiles, and build an integrated maritime transport safety assurance system covering land, sea, air, and space domains. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Disaster notification/ early warning system | Strengthen the safety risk assessment and hierarchical and classified management and control of transportation infrastructure, strengthen the identification of major risk sources and dynamic monitoring, analysis, prediction and early warning of the entire process, build meteorological monitoring and early warning systems in important channels, hubs and shipping areas, and improve the ability of transportation infrastructure to adapt to climate change. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Employment in transport, communication, and storage | Optimize the working environment of professional drivers, couriers, crew members, etc., and strengthen the quality management of motor vehicle driver training. | 2022 |
| Opinions on Promoting Green Development in the Joint Construction of the Belt and Road Initiative | Green aviation program | Actively promote low-carbon development of international shipping and international aviation. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Development Plan for Comprehensive Transportation Services | Green shipping program | Strictly implement national and local pollutant control standards and ship emission area requirements, and promote qualified ships to use shore power according to regulations after docking. Further expand the coverage of network ticketing and electronic ship ticket applications for water passenger transport. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Green shipping program | Promote inland ships to use more clean energy, and further reduce the energy consumption of transportation tools. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Green shipping program | Promote the application of pure electric tourist passenger ships according to local conditions. Continue to strengthen the prevention and control of ship pollution. Strictly implement the requirements of the ship air pollutant emission control area, work with relevant departments to ensure the supply of low-sulfur fuel for ships, reduce the emission of sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds from ships, and evaluate the implementation effect of the emission control area in a timely manner. Promote the construction of the ship air pollutant monitoring and supervision pilot area, and strengthen the supervision and inspection of the equipment and use of ship pollution facilities. Continue to promote the effective operation of port ship water pollutant reception facilities, and ensure smooth connection with urban public transfer and disposal facilities, actively promote the electronic joint form management of ship pollutants, and improve the level of informationization of joint supervision of ship water pollutants. Strictly implement the policy of free reception of domestic garbage from ships in inland ports of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Deepen the research on key technologies such as comprehensive prevention and control of traffic pollution. Focus on promoting the R&D of new technologies, new processes and new equipment for coordinated governance of ship air pollution and carbon emissions, in-depth governance of port and ship water pollution, and monitoring and supervision of traffic energy consumption and pollution emissions. Deepen the construction of green ports and green waterways. Promote the upgrading and transformation of old inland river docks, actively promote the optimization and integration of scattered docks and orderly withdrawal, and encourage the ecological restoration of land and water areas. Increase the introduction and research and development of new technologies, new materials, new processes and new structures for green waterway construction, actively promote the combination of waterway management and habitat restoration and creation, accelerate the promotion of green construction and maintenance technologies for waterway projects, give priority to the use of waterway regulation technologies and construction processes with less ecological impact, promote the application of eco-friendly new materials and new structures in waterway projects, strengthen aquatic ecological protection, and promptly carry out waterway ecological restoration and ecological compensation. Deepen the construction of green ports and green waterways. Comprehensively improve the level of port pollution prevention and control, energy conservation and low carbon, ecological protection, resource conservation and recycling, and green transportation organization, continue to promote the construction of green ports, and encourage ports or port areas with conditions to build green ports (port areas). Promote the upgrading and transformation of old inland river docks, actively promote the optimization and integration of scattered docks and orderly withdrawal, and encourage the ecological restoration of land and water areas. Further improve the level of port pollution control. Coordinate and strengthen the maintenance and management of environmental protection facilities of existing terminals and the construction and use of environmental protection facilities of new terminals to ensure stable operation and promote the recycling of water resources. Accelerate the construction of wind and dust prevention facilities and equipment configuration in dry bulk terminal yards. Orderly promote the construction, renovation and use of crude oil, refined oil terminals and ship oil and gas recovery facilities, and improve operation management regulations and supporting standards and specifications. Improve the operation effect of water-based chemical tank washing stations and improve the disposal capacity of chemical tank washing water. By 2025, the energy consumption and carbon emission intensity of operating vehicles and ships have further decreased, and the proportion of new energy and clean energy applications has significantly increased; New achievements have been made in the prevention and control of transportation pollution, the emission intensity of pollutants from operating vehicles and ships has continued to decrease, and the total amount of emissions has further decreased; | 2022 |
| Outline of the Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation (2021-2035) | Green shipping program | Promote the independent design and construction of new energy and clean energy ships, smart ships, large and medium-sized cruise ships, polar navigation ships, and modern navigation and navigation equipment development, and break through key technologies and equipment for ship-borne intelligent perception and control. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation | Hydrogen | Develop new energy and clean energy transportation equipment, focusing on breakthroughs in transportation electrification technology equipment, hydrogen energy safety application technology for vehicles and ships and other transportation equipment, new railway energy systems and traction power supply technology. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Hydrogen | It is encouraged to carry out pilot applications of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Actively explore the application of oil-electric hybrid, hydrogen fuel, ammonia fuel, and methanol-powered ships. Build a market-oriented green technology innovation system to support application research on new energy transportation equipment and facilities, hydrogen fuel vehicles and ships, LNG and biomass fuel ships, etc. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | The mileage of inland high-grade waterways is 18,500 kilometers. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Development Plan for Comprehensive Transportation Services | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Improve the quality standards and specifications of waterway passenger transport services and improve land-island transportation conditions. Improve rural water passenger transport infrastructure and ship supply capacity, and improve the level of rural water passenger transport services. Accelerate the standardization of inland river vessels, improve the utilization rate of navigation facilities such as waterways and locks, and enhance the competitiveness of inland waterway shipping. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | The level of specialization and modernization of ports and terminals has been significantly improved, and the construction of a high-grade inland waterway network has made important progress. The efficiency of transfers and changes at comprehensive transportation hubs has been further improved. Strengthen the expansion and upgrading of inland high-grade waterways and the construction of smooth access, improve the inland high-grade waterway network of the Yangtze River, Pearl River, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and Huaihe River, further enhance the sea-going capacity of the Pearl River Delta high-grade waterway network, and comprehensively strengthen the construction of the unqualified sections of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River-Xijiang high-grade waterway network. Promote the construction of important tributary waterways and lake waterways reservoir, inland tourist waterways, and convenient docks. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Carry out the construction of tourist waterways and create a number of tourist waterways and water tourism passenger routes with distinctive functions. Promote the upgrading and transformation of old inland river docks, actively promote the optimization and integration of scattered docks and orderly withdrawal, and encourage the ecological restoration of land and water areas. Deepen the construction of green ports and green waterways. Promote the upgrading and transformation of old inland river docks, actively promote the optimization and integration of scattered docks and orderly withdrawal, and encourage the ecological restoration of land and water areas. Increase the introduction and research and development of new technologies, new materials, new processes and new structures for green waterway construction, actively promote the combination of waterway management and habitat restoration and creation, accelerate the promotion of green construction and maintenance technologies for waterway projects, give priority to the use of waterway regulation technologies and construction processes with less ecological impact, promote the application of eco-friendly new materials and new structures in waterway projects, strengthen aquatic ecological protection, and promptly carry out waterway ecological restoration and ecological compensation. | 2022 |
| Outline of the Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation (2021-2035) | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Carry out research on high-dam navigation locks, water-saving locks. Improve the safety guarantee capability of inland waterway shipping, overcome the three-dimensional perception of navigation conditions of complex high-level waterways and navigation buildings, dynamic risk warning and control, navigation safety emergency rescue and other technologies, and break through key technologies such as ship oil spill warning and hazardous chemical transportation safety emergency. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Innovations and digitalization - General | Actively promote the electronic joint form management of ship pollutants, and improve the level of informationization of joint supervision of ship water pollutants. | 2022 |
| Outline of the Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation (2021-2035) | Intelligent transport systems (ITS) | Strengthen the research and development of maintenance equipment, accelerate the research and development and application of intelligent robots for engineering maintenance, strengthen the research and development and application of self-wheeling equipment for railway operation and maintenance, intelligent maintenance and repair equipment for non-interrupted traffic highway facilities, intelligent waterway mapping and automated dredging equipment, etc. Promote the upgrading of fast, convenient and intelligent travel technologies. Conquer technologies such as intelligent perception/monitoring analysis of travel behavior and forecasting of road passenger volume demand during holidays, optimized layout and reconstruction of transportation service facilities, transparency of transportation service processes and intelligent monitoring and early warning, traffic flow monitoring evaluation and capacity regulation. Improve the technical level of comprehensive management of urban traffic congestion. Promote the coordinated development of smart transportation and smart cities, and make breakthroughs in urban transportation demand prediction and evaluation simulation, traffic operation status perception, and urban transportation multi-intelligence Energy-body simulation and decision-making, data-driven traffic congestion control and guidance, and other technologies, promote the application of new generation information technology in the coordinated development of transportation and cities, optimization of urban bus network layout and precise vehicle dispatching, dynamic operation monitoring, etc., and improve the intelligent management level of urban transportation "holographic perception + collaborative linkage + dynamic optimization + precise regulation". | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Explore the construction of an inland waterway green shipping integrated service area that integrates shore power, ship charging, pollutant reception, LNG bunkering and other services Deepen the promotion and application of inland LNG-powered ships, support the development of coastal and ocean-going LNG-powered ships, guide the implementation of the layout plan of the Yangtze River trunk line, Xijiang shipping trunk line, and Beijing-Hangzhou Canal LNG refueling terminals, promote the acceleration of the construction of inland ship LNG refueling stations, and promote the construction of coastal ship LNG refueling facilities. Build a market-oriented green technology innovation system to support application research on new energy transportation equipment and facilities, hydrogen fuel vehicles and ships, LNG and biomass fuel ships, etc. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Managing transport GHG emission | By 2025: The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating vehicles decreased by 5% compared with 2020. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of transport turnover of operating ships decreased by 3.5% compared with 2020. The total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions of operating ships decreased by 7% compared with 2020. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation | Maritime Safety | Conquer the inland waterway safety control and emergency search and rescue technology based on ship-shore collaboration, and promote the research of deep-sea navigation safety assurance technology. | 2022 |
| Outline of the Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation (2021-2035) | Maritime Safety | Ensure the safety of port operations, develop the safety monitoring, early warning and emergency response technologies for the loading and unloading and storage of dangerous goods in ports, develop rapid detection and identification technologies for people, vehicles and goods in oil and gas chemical terminals and tank areas, and develop early warning and prevention equipment for hazardous chemical leaks and explosions. Improve the safety guarantee capability of inland waterway shipping, overcome the three-dimensional perception of navigation conditions of complex high-level waterways and navigation buildings, dynamic risk warning and control, navigation safety emergency rescue and other technologies, and break through key technologies such as ship oil spill warning and hazardous chemical transportation safety emergency. Build a ubiquitously interconnected port and shipping safety emergency guarantee technology system. Strengthen the safety guarantee of deep-sea navigation, develop deep-sea three-dimensional supervision and emergency command systems, develop high-precision deep-water scanning, intelligent navigation marks and other technical equipment, strengthen the research and development of emergency disposal technologies such as large-scale marine oil spills, oil storage in sunken ships, and hazardous chemical pollution, strengthen the research and development and application of personnel rescue technology in distress, and build an integrated "land, sea, air and space" water transportation safety guarantee system. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Modal shift | The average annual growth rate of container rail-water intermodal transport volume: 15%. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Modal shift | Vigorously develop multimodal transport of goods. Promote the construction of rail-water transport systems for bulk goods and containers, and expand the scale of rail-water transport. We will further promote the adjustment of the transport structure and gradually build a medium- and long-distance freight system based on railways and ships. We will accelerate the construction of dedicated railway lines, promote the "road-to-rail" and "road-to-water" transport of bulk and medium- and long-distance goods, increase the proportion of green transport for industrial and mining enterprises, and expand the supply of road-rail transport services for urban production and living materials. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Nature-based solutions | Deepen the construction of green ports and green waterways. Promote the upgrading and transformation of old inland river docks, actively promote the optimization and integration of scattered docks and orderly withdrawal, and encourage the ecological restoration of land and water areas. Increase the introduction and research and development of new technologies, new materials, new processes and new structures for green waterway construction, actively promote the combination of waterway management and habitat restoration and creation, accelerate the promotion of green construction and maintenance technologies for waterway projects, give priority to the use of waterway regulation technologies and construction processes with less ecological impact, promote the application of eco-friendly new materials and new structures in waterway projects, strengthen aquatic ecological protection, and promptly carry out waterway ecological restoration and ecological compensation. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Port electrification | New energy and clean energy container trucks account for 60% of international container hubs and seaports. The amount of shore power used by ports and water service areas in the Yangtze River Economic Belt increased by 100% compared with 2020. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Development Plan for Comprehensive Transportation Services | Port electrification | Strictly implement national and local pollutant control standards and ship emission area requirements, and promote qualified ships to use shore power according to regulations after docking. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Port electrification | Continue to promote the construction of port terminal shore power facilities and airport aircraft auxiliary power unit replacement facilities, promote the transformation of ship power receiving facilities, and continuously improve the use rate of shore power. Promote the green transformation of existing transportation facilities, and accelerate the construction and use of port ship shore power facilities and airport electric facilities and equipment. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Port electrification | Explore the construction of an inland water green shipping comprehensive service area that integrates shore power, ship charging, pollutant reception, LNG refueling and other services. Promote the use of new and clean energy in the addition and replacement of port operating machinery, port vehicles and tugboats, freight terminal operating vehicles, etc. Promote the regular use of shore power facilities. Accelerate the transformation of power receiving facilities for existing operating ships and continuously increase the installation ratio of power receiving facilities. Orderly promote the transformation of shore power facilities at existing terminals, and further increase the shore power coverage rate of five types of specialized berths at major ports, as well as 2,000-ton-class and above terminals (except oil, gas and chemical terminals) on the Yangtze River main line and Xijiang shipping main line. Strengthen the publicity and implementation of national standards for low-voltage shore power connectors, issue the "Technical Specifications for Operation and Maintenance of Port Shore Power Facilities", and strengthen the inspection and operation and maintenance of shore power facilities. Strictly implement the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Yangtze River", revise the "Management Measures for Port and Ship Shore Power", strengthen the supervision of shore power use, and ensure that ships with power receiving facilities use shore power in accordance with regulations when berthing at berths with shore power supply capacity. Shore power promotion and application action. Deepen the construction and use of shore power in key areas (Yangtze River Economic Belt, Xijiang Shipping Trunk, Bohai Rim), key provinces and cities (Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hainan, Tianjin, etc.), and key routes (Qiongzhou Strait and Bohai Bay inter-provincial passenger transport), and strive to increase the utilization rate of shore power facilities. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Rail infrastructure expansion | With the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed rail corridors as the main framework, supported by regional high-speed rail connectors and supplemented by certain intercity railways with trunk line functions, a high-speed rail network primarily operating at speeds of 250 km/h and above will cover more than 95% of cities with populations over 500,000. Bottlenecks along conventional rail lines will be basically eliminated. The operating mileage of railways is 165,000 kilometers, of which 50,000 kilometers are high-speed railways. Railway access rate to major coastal port areas (%)>70 The rail transit access rate at hub airports: 80%. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Renewable energy | Promote the reasonable layout of photovoltaic power generation facilities in suitable areas such as highways and service areas according to local conditions. Build a market-oriented green technology innovation system to support application research on new energy transportation equipment and facilities, hydrogen fuel vehicles and ships, LNG and biomass fuel ships, etc. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Research in transport sector | Promote the deep integration of government, industry, academia, research and application in the field of transportation. Strengthen the construction of key scientific research platforms in the industry, promote the construction of key laboratories, technology innovation centers, etc., and cultivate national-level science and technology innovation bases. Build a new think tank alliance for transportation, optimize the mechanism for discovering leading talents and selecting project teams, deepen the reform of scientific research funding management, improve the talent evaluation system, vigorously cultivate and use strategic scientists, and create a large-scale team of young scientific and technological talents. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Shipping efficiency improvements | The efficiency of transfers and changes at comprehensive transportation hubs has been further improved. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Shipping efficiency improvements | By 2025, the energy consumption and carbon emission intensity of operating vehicles and ships have further decreased, and the proportion of new energy and clean energy applications has significantly increased; New achievements have been made in the prevention and control of transportation pollution, the emission intensity of pollutants from operating vehicles and ships has continued to decrease, and the total amount of emissions has further decreased; | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Development Plan for Comprehensive Transportation Services | Shipping improvement - General | Develop urban water tours, canal cultural tours, and island scenery tours according to local conditions, and launch a number of water cultural tourism demonstration routes. Orderly develop coastal water tourism passenger transport. Support cruise companies to open international cruise routes in accordance with the law, implement cruise port service standards, and study and formulate international cruise transportation service evaluation standards. Steadily and prudently promote the pilot of Hainan cruise port cruise sea tour routes, support the development of local cruise ships, and actively support the construction and operation of five-star red flag cruise ships. Develop standard ship types for Yangtze River cruise transportation, and support the research, design and construction of domestic medium and large cruise ships. Accelerate the improvement of the global shipping service network. Optimize specialized shipping systems such as coal, crude oil, ore, containers, and liquefied natural gas, encourage enterprises to improve the global shipping trunk network, expand international routes with ports invested overseas as nodes, promote the commercial use and normal operation of Arctic routes, further increase the scale of third-country routes, and promote the construction of a global shipping service network based on blockchain. Cultivate a number of world-class terminal construction and operators, and comprehensive service providers, strengthen the efficient connection between ports and China-Europe trains, the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, and the China-Europe Land-Sea Express, and provide services to support the open pattern of linkage between land and sea, and mutual assistance between the east and the west. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation | Shipping improvement - General | Carry out technical research on transportation infrastructure construction such as riverside, coastal and border channels, cross-basin waterway networks, deep-sea offshore projects, large postal and aviation land transport hubs and warehousing and distribution centers, and high-lift and large-tonnage ship lifts. Promote the systematic development of ship types for inland, coastal, ocean-going and polar ships, break through key technologies such as high-thrust full-rotation propellers and dual-fuel engines, break through theories and technologies such as overall design, intelligent perception, communication networking, autonomous decision-making, remote control, twin verification and testing of intelligent green ships, and promote the design and construction, professional inspection, operation and maintenance of large cruise ships and yachts, and key supply chain technology research. Research technologies for intelligent operation and management of passenger ro-ro (roll-on/roll-off) ports, as well as autonomous seaworthiness of passenger ships and ro-ro passenger vessels. Conquer technologies such as ship environment perception and intelligent navigation, ship-shore communication based on new generation mobile communications, and develop a global shipping service network platform and smart shipping comprehensive service platform based on blockchain. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Shipping improvement - General | Promote the interconnection of infrastructure in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, optimize the allocation of shipping and aviation resources, strengthen the transportation links between Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland, and support Hong Kong in enhancing its status as an international shipping and aviation hub. Coordinate the development of port and shipping integration, promote the construction of a global shipping hub by Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, accelerate the improvement of the functions of the Jiangsu Tongzhou Bay River-Sea Linkage Demonstration Zone, and create a new outlet for Yangtze River container transportation. Develop modern comprehensive transport hubs and steadily advance the construction of the Free Trade Port. Improve the research and development capabilities of large liquefied natural gas carriers, polar ships, large cruise ships, etc., and promote the research and development of new equipment such as underwater robots, deep diving equipment, deep-sea semi-submersible salvage cranes, and large deep-sea multifunctional rescue ships. Promote green and intelligent ships, promote the application of single intelligent ship technologies such as autonomous navigation, and promote the overall technical application of shore-based collaborative systems, security systems, and remote control systems for intelligent navigation of ships. Actively cultivate the cruise market, expand tourism products, promote the upgrading of cruise services, and promote the development of yacht, cruise ship, and RV tourism. Strengthen high-definition observation of deep-sea targets and high-precision space-time services at sea. | 2022 |
| Outline of the Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Field of Transportation (2021-2035) | Shipping improvement - General | Develop large oil spill recovery ships and key technical equipment, large deep-sea multifunctional rescue ships, key deep-water salvage equipment, underwater intelligent security equipment, deep-sea saturation diving application technology equipment, etc. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Build world-class port clusters in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, support Shandong in building a world-class ocean port, promote the integrated development of coastal ports in the Northeast, optimize the functional layout of ports, and promote resource integration and sharing. Orderly promote the construction of public facilities such as specialized terminals and inbound and outbound waterways at coastal ports. Moderately advance the construction of loading, unloading, storage, and transit facilities for grain, energy, and mineral resources, and promote the planning and construction of liquefied natural gas terminals along the coast and rivers. Improve the level of specialization and scale of inland ports, and reasonably and centrally layout specialized terminals such as containers, coal, iron ore, and commercial vehicles. Promote the effective connection between port receiving facilities for ship pollutants and urban public transfer and disposal facilities, and improve the electronic joint form supervision system. Carry out comprehensive treatment of port sewage and dust, promote the recycling of production and living sewage and rainwater sewage, and improve the wind and dust prevention facilities in the dry bulk terminal yard. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Deepen the construction of green ports and green waterways. Comprehensively improve the level of port pollution prevention and control, energy conservation and low carbon, ecological protection, resource conservation and recycling, and green transportation organization, continue to promote the construction of green ports, and encourage ports or port areas with conditions to build green ports (port areas). Promote the upgrading and transformation of old inland river docks, actively promote the optimization and integration of scattered docks and orderly withdrawal, and encourage the ecological restoration of land and water areas. Further improve the level of port pollution control. Coordinate and strengthen the maintenance and management of environmental protection facilities of existing terminals and the construction and use of environmental protection facilities of new terminals to ensure stable operation and promote the recycling of water resources. Accelerate the construction of wind and dust prevention facilities and equipment configuration in dry bulk terminal yards. Orderly promote the construction, renovation and use of crude oil, refined oil terminals and ship oil and gas recovery facilities, and improve operation management regulations and supporting standards and specifications. Improve the operation effect of water-based chemical tank washing stations and improve the disposal capacity of chemical tank washing water. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Solar energy | Accelerate research on infrastructure distributed photovoltaic power generation equipment and grid-connected technology. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Transport asset management technology | The application rate of the BeiDou Navigation System in key areas: greater than 95%. (Refers to key operating vehicles, postal express self-owned trunk transport vehicles, passenger ships and dangerous goods ships that should be equipped with satellite positioning function shipboard equipment, etc.)(Refers to key operating vehicles, postal express self-owned trunk transport vehicles, passenger ships and dangerous goods ships that should be equipped with satellite positioning function shipboard equipment, etc.) | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Transport finance - General | Stabilize and improve the policy of special funds for transportation, continue to support the maintenance of transportation infrastructure through channels such as transfer payments for refined oil tax reform, and optimize and improve the funding policy to support the development of postal and water transportation. Improve the special bond system for toll roads. Support eligible project implementation entities to carry out market-oriented financing through the issuance of corporate bonds and other channels, steadily promote the pilot of real estate investment trust funds (REITs) in the field of infrastructure, standardize the development of government and social capital cooperation models, support development finance, policy finance, and social capital to participate in transportation infrastructure construction in accordance with laws and regulations, and encourage social capital to establish multimodal transport and other industrial investment funds. Fully implement the reform plan for the division of fiscal powers and expenditure responsibilities between the central and local governments in the field of transportation, optimize the debt structure, and prevent and resolve the hidden debt risks of local governments. Improve long-term funding channels that match the project funding needs and deadlines. | 2022 |
| Implementation Plan for New Urbanization in the 14th Five-Year Plan | Transport finance - General | Operating companies such as airports and ports are encouraged to use capital as a link and adopt market-oriented methods such as joint investment and mutual shareholding to improve resource utilization efficiency and management service levels. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Development Plan for Comprehensive Transportation Services | Transport resilience - general | Promote efficient and standard emergency transport equipment such as containers, pallets, and turnover boxes. Accelerate the establishment of a national-level emergency drill center for urban rail transit, and enhance the emergency response capabilities for urban rail transit operations in the context of network-based emergencies." Strengthen emergency training management and emergency drills, strengthen the social coordination capacity of emergency rescue, and improve the expropriation compensation mechanism. Continue to develop and improve large-scale life-saving systems for cruise ships and other large passenger vessels. | 2022 |
| "14th Five-Year Plan" Development Plan for Comprehensive Transportation Services | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Optimize the scale and structure of the shipping fleet, develop a fleet of liquefied natural gas ships, and further improve the international competitiveness of container, crude oil, dry bulk, and special transport fleets. | 2022 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Pollution control for vehicles and ships with excessive emissions. Establish and improve a closed-loop management mechanism for vehicle emissions. Accelerate the elimination of old vehicles with high energy consumption and high emissions, comprehensively improve the design and operation efficiency of ships, and encourage the purchase of low-energy consumption and low-emission transport equipment. | 2022 |
| Green Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Strictly implement the mandatory ship scrapping system, and encourage early elimination of high-pollution, high-energy-consuming old transport ships. Carry out the transformation and installation of anti-pollution facilities for inland ships with a gross tonnage of less than 400 tons in a graded, classified and zoned manner. | 2022 |
| China's Mid-Century Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | Increase the application of renewable energy such as solar energy, wind energy and geothermal energy in transportation infrastructure, accelerate the improvement of the LNG and hydrogen energy supply (filling) system, and focus on solving the problems of difficult approval, construction, and operation of marine LNG refueling stations. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Capacity building - General | Focusing on key common technologies, cutting-edge leading technologies, and disruptive technologies for smart water transport, we will coordinate forward-looking research and scientific and technological project development. We will accelerate the establishment of an evaluation and standards system for smart water transport, and formulate general and key technical standards for smart water transport. We will build a collaborative innovation platform for industry, academia, research, and application, researching and promoting the development of key scientific research platforms for smart ports, digital waterways, intelligent shipping, maritime safety, and pollution prevention. We will actively promote pilot application demonstration projects for smart shipping, piloting technologies such as autonomous ship driving and ship-shore collaboration. Encourage Chinese enterprises to participate in the investment, construction, and operation of ports along the Maritime Silk Road, and cultivate several world-class port developers, operators, and integrated service providers. Support the establishment of international port alliances and the Silk Road Maritime Alliance, and improve international port-shipping exchange platforms and cooperation mechanisms. Actively participate in international rescue missions and strengthen regional and international cooperation in maritime search and rescue. Take an active part in international anti-piracy efforts and jointly enhance the capacity to ensure navigation safety along key international shipping routes. Encourage the establishment of joint laboratories (research centers) between leading domestic and international port and shipping research institutions. Strengthen river shipping cooperation with neighboring countries along border rivers. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Capacity building - General | Strengthen channel security, maritime patrol, search and rescue, salvage, and deep-sea and polar rescue capabilities, and improve the transportation safety supervision system and search and rescue system. Coordinate the capabilities building of emergency rescue on land, water and aviation, and build a multi-level comprehensive transportation emergency equipment, materials and transportation capacity reserve system. Scientifically plan and layout emergency rescue bases, fire rescue stations, etc., strengthen the construction of supporting facilities such as emergency equipment for important channels, emergency communications, material storage and transportation, disaster prevention and epidemic prevention, and pollution emergency disposal, and improve the rapid repair capability of facilities and the ability to respond to emergencies. Improve the open sharing mechanism of scientific and technological resources and build a number of innovation platforms with international influence. Strengthen the building of the transportation talent team. Optimize the talent team structure, strengthen the construction of interdisciplinary scientific research teams, and cultivate a group of influential transportation science and technology leaders and innovation teams. Carry forward the spirit of model workers and craftsmen, improve the system and mechanism for talent introduction, training, use, evaluation, mobility, and incentives, and the governance mechanism that guides the construction of industry culture with the core socialist values. Strengthen the cultivation of innovative, application-oriented, and skilled talents, build a high-quality cadre team that is loyal, clean, and responsible, and create a large army of workers with excellent quality. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Coordinate planning across government agencies | Encourage port, shipping and railway companies to strengthen cooperation, information interconnection, and standard docking, build a comprehensive reform zone for container sea-rail transport, and promote high-quality development of rail-water transport. Strengthen the coordination and integration of water transport planning with national land and space planning at all levels, and coordinate the spatial relationship between water transport development and ocean, land, and shoreline resources, as well as cities, transportation, water conservancy, and environmental protection. Strengthen policy coordination with departments such as development and reform, natural resources, ecological environment, water conservancy, ports, and railways to improve the external environment for water transport development. | 2021 |
| China's Mid-Century Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy | Development of climate change/ low carbon plan/ policy | At the same time, China will promote the establishment of science-based mechanisms for reducing GHGs emission from international shipping and aviation. Formulate and issue implementation plans for achieving carbon peaking in sub-sectors such as energy, industry, urban and rural construction, transportation, agriculture and rural affairs. Formulate policy systems from technological support, green finance, fiscal and taxation, and price perspectives. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Disaster notification/ early warning system | Promote the application of Beidou-based sensing terminal equipment and strengthen early warning monitoring of key areas such as shallow and dangerous sections. | 2021 |
| Comprehensive work plan for energy conservation and emission reduction in the 14th Five-Year Plan | EV - General | Increase the proportion of new energy vehicles used in urban public transportation, taxis, logistics, sanitation and cleaning vehicles. Promote the application of agricultural electric vehicles, energy-saving and environmentally friendly agricultural machinery and fishing vessels. Take the lead in phasing out old vehicles and prioritizing the procurement and use of energy-saving and new energy vehicles. | 2021 |
| Comprehensive work plan for energy conservation and emission reduction in the 14th Five-Year Plan | EV in public transport | Increase the proportion of new energy vehicles used in urban public transportation, taxis, logistics, sanitation and cleaning vehicles. Promote the application of agricultural electric vehicles, energy-saving and environmentally friendly agricultural machinery and fishing vessels. Take the lead in phasing out old vehicles and prioritizing the procurement and use of energy-saving and new energy vehicles. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Excavation/dredging | Promote the ecological protection and restoration of waterway facilities. Promote the application of new energy-saving and water-saving technologies and processes, and comprehensively utilize dredged soil, construction materials, and waste materials. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Freight and logistics improvements - General | Support large-scale port areas and actively develop end-to-end logistics and supply chain logistics, as well as specialized logistics for cold chain, automotive, and chemical industries. Relying on trunk container ports, build global international procurement and distribution centers, commodity distribution centers for major urban clusters, and develop commodity exhibitions and trading markets. Encourage qualified port and shipping companies to expand into inland hinterlands. In conjunction with the development of national logistics hubs, develop multimodal transport with ports as hubs and the "single bill system" as the carrier, and transform into integrated logistics service providers and international logistics operators. Establish overseas hubs, corridors, and logistics network systems, and improve the diversification of supply chain layouts to help build a modern international logistics and supply chain system that is open and shared, globally connected, secure and reliable, and strongly supported, ensuring the security of key materials and critical transport corridors. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | Freight rail infrastructure improvement | Railway-dominated and water-dominated comprehensive freight hubs should focus on the overall layout of specialized container intermodal transport, loading and unloading storage, short-haul and other facilities and equipment to improve the efficiency of multimodal transport. Promote piggyback transport and railway double-layer container transport between hub ports and stations that meet the conditions. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Green shipping program | Continuously improve the prevention and control of ship pollution. Promote the implementation of ship emission controls. Promote the renovation of facilities and equipment for inland vessels under 400 gross tonnage, implementing onboard storage and shore-based disposal. Encourage the research and development and application of new energy and clean energy vessels, including LNG, electric, and hydrogen. Promote the ecological protection and restoration of waterway facilities. Promote the application of new energy-saving and water-saving technologies and processes, and comprehensively utilize dredged soil, construction materials, and waste materials. Promote the implementation of ecological restoration measures such as ecological revetments, ecological beach protection, and artificial fish nests on inland waterways. Strengthen the development of standards in areas such as construction and maintenance, smart ports, intelligent waterways, energy conservation and environmental protection, and safety and emergency response, and formulate technical regulations for new energy or clean energy vessels such as lithium batteries. Improve the standard system for green development of ports and waterways. We will coordinate development and safety, organically integrate the requirements of building a Safe China into water transport development, and build safe ports and waterways. Improve port green indicators and operational requirements, as well as the reporting system and statistical system for port energy consumption and environmental statistics. | 2021 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | Green shipping program | We will work faster to upgrade old ships, and develop ships fueled by electric power and liquefied natural gas. | 2021 |
| China's Mid-Century Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy | Green shipping program | Build (near) zero-carbon hubs, stations and ports (port areas). | 2021 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | Increasing transport activity | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2021 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | Increasing transport activity | The national railway and waterway freight volumes will increase by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the container railway-waterway transport volume will increase by more than 15% annually. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, about 5,000 kilometers of inland waterways will be added and improved, including about 2,500 kilometers of new national high-grade waterways. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | By 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be about 700,000 kilometers (excluding overseas sections of international land routes, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 25,000 kilometers of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | By 2025, inland waterway transportation has achieved the expected goal of 25,000 kilometers of national high-grade waterway network, and has fully played the role of a channel in the main skeleton of the "6 axes, 7 corridors and 8 channels" comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network. With high-grade waterways as the core, we will make up for shortcomings and give full play to advantages, accelerate the capacity expansion and upgrading of major channels such as the Yangtze River trunk line, the Xijiang shipping trunk line, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, promote the attack on unqualified sections of high-grade waterways, and steadily advance the preliminary demonstration and construction of the canal connection project. Focus on supporting the construction of national high-grade waterways (including navigation facilities), while taking into account the construction of other waterways (including navigation facilities), navigation and power hubs, public anchorages, and convenient transportation terminals in reservoirs and lakes in the central and western regions. Accelerate the capacity expansion and upgrading of major water transport channels. Focus on the smooth extension of high-grade waterways in water networks and tributaries. Steadily promote the canal connection project. Coordinate the construction of international navigable river waterways at the border. Actively carry out pilot demonstrations of tourist waterways. Improve the inland waterway collection and distribution system. Focus on strengthening the construction of inland river collection and distribution waterways in the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other regions, and effectively connect coastal ports with inland waterways. Open up key bottleneck nodes of inland high-grade waterways and build a container sea-river (river) intermodal system. Develop sea-river (river) transport and trunk-branch transport. Promote river-sea direct ship types, promote the development of river-sea direct transportation, and improve the river-sea transport transit system with the Yangtze River and Pearl River as the focus. Actively develop sea-river transport of containers in the Yangtze River Delta. Encourage port and shipping companies to organize and develop trunk-branch transport and water-water transit transportation in coastal areas around container trunk ports and major loading and unloading ports such as iron ore. Improve supporting logistics facilities, enhance the competitiveness of inland waterway container transport, and promote the conversion of bulk transport to container transport. Optimize and adjust the transport structure, innovate transport organization models, and accelerate the development of specialized transport options such as roll-on/roll-off transport of commercial vehicles and liquid bulk cargo. Promote the ecological protection and restoration of waterway facilities. Promote the application of new energy-saving and water-saving technologies and processes, and comprehensively utilize dredged soil, construction materials, and waste materials. Promote the implementation of ecological restoration measures such as ecological revetments, ecological beach protection, and artificial fish nests on inland waterways. Strengthen the development of standards in areas such as construction and maintenance, smart ports, intelligent waterways, energy conservation and environmental protection, and safety and emergency response, and formulate technical regulations for new energy or clean energy vessels such as lithium batteries. Improve the standard system for green development of ports and waterways. | 2021 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Promote the expansion and upgrading of high-grade inland waterways. | 2021 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | We will continue to construct special railway lines for industrial and mining enterprises, ports, and logistic parks, and accelerate development of high-level inland waterway networks so as to facilitate a shift in bulk cargo transportation and mid-long distance freight transportation from highways to railways and waterways. | 2021 |
| Digital Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Smart waterways. Improve waterway measurement facilities and monitoring sensing networks, promote the popularization and application of electronic waterway charts, strengthen real-time monitoring of the operating conditions of key waterways above level 3 and key navigation buildings above level 4. Advance the development of an integrated intelligent scheduling system for cascade hub ship locks to enhance waterway safety, operational reliability, and the efficiency of navigation hubs. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Strengthen online monitoring of the operating status of high-grade inland waterways, and promote the development of ship-shore collaboration, automated terminals and yards. | 2021 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | accelerate the construction of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, the Yangtze River Golden Waterway, and the Xijiang Water Transport Channel Support port cities to develop water-land multimodal transport of daily necessities in conjunction with the transformation of old urban docks. Accelerate the development of rail-water transport and river-sea transport in the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Encourage enterprises to make full use of project resources, accelerate the development of rail-water transport and river-sea direct transport, and form a number of river-sea-river transport boutique routes. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Intelligent transport systems (ITS) | Comprehensively advance the development of digital waterways. Focusing on high-grade waterways, strengthen waterway infrastructure information collection capabilities and promote the full-element, full-cycle digitization of waterways, navigation marks, and regulatory structures. Promote the application of Beidou-based sensing terminal equipment and strengthen early warning monitoring of key areas such as shallow and dangerous sections. Promote the construction of a comprehensive dynamic sensing network for important sections and nodes of high-grade waterways. Strengthen the construction of operational monitoring systems for dams and navigation structures at shipping hubs. Optimize and integrate various smart waterway management platforms and strengthen connections with the National Comprehensive Transportation Information Platform. Focusing on Yangtze River and Pearl River shipping, build a big data center and a "smart waterway" service system to enhance the capacity and quality of public services. | 2021 |
| Digital Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Intelligent transport systems (ITS) | New technologies and new models such as vehicle-road collaboration and intelligent shipping have made new breakthroughs. Smart highways. Improve the highway sensing network, promote the digitization of all elements and cycles of highway infrastructure, develop vehicle-road collaboration and autonomous driving, promote driving guidance in severe weather conditions on key roads, alleviate traffic congestion, and improve operational efficiency. Deepen the application of the electronic toll collection system (ETC) on expressways, and build a smart road network platform that integrates monitoring, dispatching, control, emergency response, and services. Promote the intelligentization of highway construction and maintenance. Promote the construction of smart highway service areas. Promote the Coordinated Application of 5G and Other Technological Innovations. In line with the national information infrastructure layout and guided by practical applications, steadily advance the integrated development of 5G and other communication facilities with transportation infrastructure. Promote the coordinated development of the Internet of Vehicles and the Internet of Ships, and accelerate the application of wireless communication technologies for vehicles. Promote the intelligent operation and management of smart public transportation and urban rail transit, and enhance the flexible operation capacity of public transportation. Promote the comprehensive application of urban transportation big data, realize the integration of information and comprehensive services. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Shipping companies will be encouraged to increase investment in scientific research and promote the development of intelligent ships. Coordinate and promote key core technology research, including the manufacturing of high-power LNG engines and low-speed high-power diesel engines, and the design and construction of high-tech ships such as large cruise ships and LNG transport vessels. | 2021 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan on Modern Energy System Planning | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Encourage the use of clean fuels such as LNG as an alternative in heavy-duty trucks and ships, and strengthen the supply of clean energy in the transportation industry. | 2021 |
| China's Mid-Century Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Increase the application of renewable energy such as solar energy, wind energy and geothermal energy in transportation infrastructure, accelerate the improvement of the LNG and hydrogen energy supply (filling) system, and focus on solving the problems of difficult approval, construction, and operation of marine LNG refueling stations. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Maritime Safety | Strengthen the development of standards in areas such as construction and maintenance, smart ports, intelligent waterways, energy conservation and environmental protection, and safety and emergency response, and formulate technical regulations for new energy or clean energy vessels such as lithium batteries. Improve the standard system for green development of ports and waterways. Improve the inherent safety of facilities and equipment. Strengthen the safety protection of port and waterway infrastructure, establish and improve a safety inspection system for dangerous goods storage tanks at ports, and enhance the safety inspection capabilities of passenger terminals. Strengthen the operational safety management of navigation structures and dams at shipping hubs, and focus on risk prevention and reinforcement. Strengthen the management of ship navigation order in bridge areas, improve the installation of anti-collision and other technical equipment on ships, and comprehensively adopt measures such as installing active warning and anti-collision equipment, and strengthening and retrofitting to enhance the ability of bridges to prevent ship collisions. Relying on key port and waterway construction projects, deepen the construction of safe construction sites and create "safe, century-long quality projects." Strengthen the security protection of critical information infrastructure for water transportation and enhance the security of important data resources. | 2021 |
| Digital Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Maritime Safety | Advance the development of an integrated intelligent scheduling system for cascade hub ship locks to enhance waterway safety, operational reliability, and the efficiency of navigation hubs. Promote Coordinated Supervision of Maritime Traffic Safety: Advance the online coordination of key operational functions including maritime safety supervision, navigation support, rescue and salvage, waterway maintenance, and emergency command. Promote the development of an integrated maritime transport safety system encompassing land, sea, air, and space, with the goal of improving shipping efficiency, search and rescue success rates, and the capabilities of maritime safety regulation and emergency response. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Maritime Safety | Strengthen channel security, maritime patrol, search and rescue, salvage, and deep-sea and polar rescue capabilities, and improve the transportation safety supervision system and search and rescue system. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Modal shift | During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of container rail-water transport volume will be 15%. | 2021 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | Modal shift | During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the volume of rail-ship container transportation will increase above 15% annually. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Modal shift | Continue to promote the "road-to-rail" port collection and distribution, and accelerate the development of rail-water transport of containers, iron ore, coal, steel and other goods. Encourage port and shipping and railway companies to strengthen cooperation, information interconnection, and standard docking, build a comprehensive reform zone for container sea-rail transport, and promote high-quality development of rail-water transport. | 2021 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan on Modern Energy System Planning | Modal shift | New coal mining projects shall give priority to clean coal transportation methods such as railways and water transportation. Build a green and low-carbon transportation system, optimize and adjust the transportation structure, vigorously develop multimodal transport, and promote the "road to rail" and "road to water" transportation of bulk goods in medium and long distances. | 2021 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | Modal shift | We will make great effort to develop multimodal transportation with railway and waterway transportation as the mainstay. We will continue to construct special railway lines for industrial and mining enterprises, ports, and logistic parks, and accelerate development of high-level inland waterway networks so as to facilitate a shift in bulk cargo transportation and mid-long distance freight transportation from highways to railways and waterways. | 2021 |
| China's Mid-Century Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy | Modal shift | Accelerate the optimization and adjustment of the transportationstructure, continue to deepen the construction of special railwaysand special railway lines, actively develop direct river-sea andriver-sea combined transportation,strive to increase theproportion of combined iron and water transportation, acceleratethe promotion of the "revolution to rail" and "revolution to waterof bulk cargo in coastal ports. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Modal shift | Optimize and adjust the transportation structure, promote the construction of multimodal logistics parks and dedicated railway lines, and form a medium- and long-distance transportation pattern for bulk goods and containers based on railways and water transportation | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Nature-based solutions | Promote the ecological protection and restoration of waterway facilities. Promote the application of new energy-saving and water-saving technologies and processes, and comprehensively utilize dredged soil, construction materials, and waste materials. Promote the implementation of ecological restoration measures such as ecological revetments, ecological beach protection, and artificial fish nests on inland waterways. Strengthen the development of standards in areas such as construction and maintenance, smart ports, intelligent waterways, energy conservation and environmental protection, and safety and emergency response, and formulate technical regulations for new energy or clean energy vessels such as lithium batteries. Improve the standard system for green development of ports and waterways. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | Port electrification | Promote the accelerated application of new energy and clean energy in hub operation machinery, facilities and equipment, and strengthen the application of intelligent energy supply and distribution, shore power facilities, etc. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Port electrification | Promote the regular use of shore power facilities. Newly built docks and ships should simultaneously construct shore power facilities and power receiving facilities in accordance with laws and regulations. Accelerate the renovation of existing ship power receiving facilities and the construction of shore power facilities at docks. Strengthen the supervision of shore power use, strive for supporting policies for shore power, promote the regular use of shore power in key areas such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt, gradually achieve the full use of shore power by cruise ships at port, and significantly increase the shore power utilization rate at container, passenger, ro-ro passenger, and large bulk cargo terminals and ships. Improve the efficiency and level of application of clean energy in port vehicles and machinery, and promote the application of distributed power generation technologies such as wind energy and solar energy in ports. | 2021 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan on Modern Energy System Planning | Port electrification | Implement port shore power and airport land power transformation. | 2021 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | Port electrification | We will further promote the use of shore power by ships while in port. We will further promote the use of shore power by ships while in port | 2021 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | Port electrification | Accelerate the green and intelligent transformation of ports and hubs, coordinate the matching transformation of ships and port shore power facilities, and further promote the use of shore power by ships when they are at port. Promote the planning and construction of supporting facilities such as charging, swapping, and refueling in port hubs. Demonstrate the application of new energy heavy-duty trucks in scenarios such as short-distance transportation in port areas and yards and fixed-line transportation. Accelerate the green and intelligent transformation of ports and hubs, coordinate the matching transformation of ships and port shore power facilities, and further promote the use of shore power by ships when they are at port | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | Private sector cooperation | Encourage innovation in the government-enterprise cooperation mechanism and work together to promote the construction of hub ports and stations, collection and distribution systems, and connection systems. Encourage joint investment or centralized entrustment of construction and management by all parties to establish a unified comprehensive passenger hub investment, construction and management entity. Encourage the use of management committees or leading enterprises to develop and form a comprehensive freight hub development model of "government unified planning, platform integration, and enterprise independent development" to promote the agglomeration and development of various logistics resources. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | Rail infrastructure expansion | In principle, international aviation hubs should achieve the connection of 2 or more rail transit lines. National railway comprehensive passenger transport hubs should achieve the connection of 2 or more suburban railways or urban rails. The container and bulk dry bulk cargo operation areas of major coastal and inland ports across the country should achieve railway connection, and new freight hubs (logistics parks) with an annual freight volume of more than 1.5 million tons of bulk cargo should achieve railway connection; coordinate and promote the construction of the collection and distribution system of air freight hubs. | 2021 |
| China's Mid-Century Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy | Renewable energy | Increase the application of renewable energy such as solar energy, wind energy and geothermal energy in transportation infrastructure, accelerate the improvement of the LNG and hydrogen energy supply (filling) system, and focus on solving the problems of difficult approval, construction, and operation of marine LNG refueling stations. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Research in transport sector | Focusing on key common technologies, cutting-edge leading technologies, and disruptive technologies for smart water transport, we will coordinate forward-looking research and scientific and technological project development. We will build a collaborative innovation platform for industry, academia, research, and application, researching and promoting the development of key scientific research platforms for smart ports, digital waterways, intelligent shipping, maritime safety, and pollution prevention. Encourage the establishment of joint laboratories (research centers) between leading domestic and international port and shipping research institutions. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Research in transport sector | Optimize the talent team structure, strengthen the construction of interdisciplinary scientific research teams, and cultivate a group of influential transportation science and technology leaders and innovation teams. Strengthen scientific research and improve construction technology to reduce transport noise, pollutants, carbon dioxide and other emissions from the source. | 2021 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | Road infrastructure expansion | Accelerate the expansion and transformation of port collection and distribution roads. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Routine transport asset maintenance | Strengthen the maintenance of port and shipping infrastructure. Improve the regular maintenance and management mechanism for waterways and the market-oriented mechanism for dredging and maintenance. Strengthen the measurement and maintenance of navigational dimensions such as waterway and anchorage depths, optimize the layout of navigation standards in water areas, and increase investment in and operational management of infrastructure such as navigational structures and integrated water service areas. | 2021 |
| Digital Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Shipping efficiency improvements | Advance the development of an integrated intelligent scheduling system for cascade hub ship locks to enhance waterway safety, operational reliability, and the efficiency of navigation hubs. | 2021 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | Shipping efficiency improvements | Pilot the "direct pick-up at the ship's side" and "direct loading at the port" models at eligible ports. | 2021 |
| China's Mid-Century Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy | Shipping fuels | Promote the application of low-carbon energy ships and explore the application of biomass fuels and other synthetic fuels in civil aviation. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | Shipping improvement - General | Water transport-dominated comprehensive passenger transport hubs should realize shared service function spaces such as water transport and road passenger transport. Railway-dominated and water-dominated comprehensive freight hubs should focus on the overall layout of specialized container intermodal transport, loading and unloading storage, short-haul and other facilities and equipment to improve the efficiency of multimodal transport. Promote the development of resource elements of international cruise ports, combine the needs of the international and domestic cruise markets, actively expand international departure routes and international call routes, optimize the passenger entry and exit and fast customs clearance service processes, and support the formation of an international cruise passenger service network with high-quality services and convenient travel. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Shipping improvement - General | Vigorously develop cruise transportation and enrich cruise tourism routes and products. Promote the scale, intensification, and diversification of maritime transport operations to enhance their risk resilience and international competitiveness. Encourage shipping transport companies to establish long-term, risk-sharing, mutually beneficial partnerships with cargo owners, financial institutions, shipbuilding companies, and other entities, and encourage alliances among shipping transport companies. Actively strive for international trade transportation rights and interests, further increase the proportion of key materials carried, and continuously optimize the structure of shipping service trade. Cultivate a group of shipping transport companies with strong international competitiveness. Optimize specialized shipping systems for containers, crude oil, iron ore, LNG, and grain, and enhance transportation service assurance capabilities. Continuously improve the global maritime trunk line network and further enhance the connectivity of Chinese ports with countries and regions along the Belt and Road. Support Shanghai in developing high-end shipping services by leveraging its advantages as an international economic, financial, trade, shipping, and technological innovation center. Promote the development of specialized shipping services in Ningbo and Zhoushan, and enhance global port and shipping resource allocation capabilities. Attract various international and national shipping organizations to Shanghai, and establish a globally influential shipping think tank. Enrich and optimize the existing shipping index system, expand the index's application areas, enhance its international influence, and actively and steadily develop shipping financial derivatives. | 2021 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan | Shipping improvement - General | Develop high-speed rail express and other express railway freight products, strengthen international air freight capacity, and enhance international shipping competitiveness. | 2021 |
| Comprehensive work plan for energy conservation and emission reduction in the 14th Five-Year Plan | Shipping improvement - General | Strengthen the recovery and management of oil and gas from oil tankers and crude oil and refined oil terminals. | 2021 |
| Digital Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Shipping improvement - General | Promote the application of Beidou system's short message features in the fields of ship supervision, maritime search and rescue, emergency communications, etc. Explore the application of Beidou system in the fields of vehicle-road collaboration, port operations, etc., deepen the application of Beidou system in the global shipping field, and promote the international application of Beidou system in the transportation field. Promote the application of electronic boat tickets. Promote the application of autonomous driving within the port area and port collection and distribution channels. Improve ship-shore and ship communication systems and intelligent navigation facilities, enhance the ship-shore coordination capabilities throughout the entire navigation process, and support intelligent assisted navigation of ships in complex all-weather environments. Build ship pollutant emission monitoring and service facilities and equipment, innovate operating mechanisms, and improve the level of ship pollutant prevention and control. Encourage the establishment of a third-party shipping transaction and service e-commerce platform. Promote Coordinated Supervision of Maritime Traffic Safety: Advance the online coordination of key operational functions including maritime safety supervision, navigation support, rescue and salvage, waterway maintenance, and emergency command. Promote the construction of a number of autonomous driving and intelligent shipping test bases and pilot application pilot projects. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Shipping improvement - General | Strengthen the radiation capacity of the international shipping center, improve four international maritime transport channels, including across the Pacific Ocean to America via Japan and South Korea, to Oceania via Southeast Asia, to Europe and Africa via Southeast Asia and South Asia across the Indian Ocean, and the Ice Silk Road across the Arctic Ocean, ensure the international transportation of key national materials such as crude oil, iron ore, grain, and liquefied natural gas, expand the international maritime logistics network, and accelerate the development of the cruise economy. | 2021 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | Shipping improvement - General | Support port cities to develop water-land multimodal transport of daily necessities in conjunction with the transformation of old urban docks. Accelerate the construction of water-to-water transshipment terminals such as the north side of Xiaoyangshan, promote the upgrading and renovation of supporting facilities such as terminals and anchorages, and significantly reduce the proportion of highway collection and distribution ports. Encourage port enterprises to strengthen cooperation with railway, shipping and other enterprises, and coordinate the layout of container return points. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Modern Transport Hub System | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | The rail access rate of major coastal ports is over 90%. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | The adaptability of the throughput capacity of large-scale specialized coastal terminals will increase from greater than 1.0 in 2020 to greater than 1.1 in 2025. The railway access rate of major coastal ports is greater than 90%. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | There are 27 major coastal ports and 36 major inland ports. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Promote the construction of specialized terminals and public infrastructure for major cargo categories along the coast. Focus on container trunk ports, give equal importance to new construction and renovation, and increase the intelligent transformation of existing container terminals. Improve the level of specialization and scale of inland ports. Continue to promote the resource integration and reconstruction and upgrading of old and small scattered terminals in inland ports to achieve large-scale development. Strengthen the function of international hub seaports. Enhance the connectivity of international hub seaport routes, and improve service capabilities and radiation range. Promote high-quality coordinated development of regional ports. Improve the multi-level coordinated development pattern led by international hub seaports, with major ports as the backbone, and regional important ports and general ports developing accordingly. Strengthen the intensive and economical use of port shoreline resources, and encourage local governments to explore and establish evaluation indicators for the economical use of shoreline resources. Strengthen planning management and shoreline approval, strictly control and rationally utilize deep-water shorelines, and encourage the use of port shoreline resources in a large-scale, intensive, and specialized manner, with public terminals as the main direction. | 2021 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Accelerate the construction of world-class port clusters and airport clusters. | 2021 |
| Digital Transportation "14th Five-Year" Development Plan | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Develop smart shipping. Promote the automation transformation of docks and yards, and accelerate the comprehensive application of intelligent dispatching of ports and stations, remote control of equipment, etc. Build a port collection and distribution and logistics big data center to promote the online handling of full-process logistics business. Promote the application of autonomous driving within the port area and port collection and distribution channels. Smart port. Promote the construction of new automated container terminals and unmanned systems for bulk dry cargo terminals, and accelerate the comprehensive application of intelligent dispatching of ports and stations, remote control of equipment, etc. Build a smart logistics service platform for ports, promote online collaboration of logistics operations, and strengthen intelligent monitoring and early warning of dangerous goods in ports. | 2021 |
| Promote the development of multimodal transport, optimize and adjust the transport structure Work Program (2021-2025) | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Accelerate the development of large-scale port areas with direct railway access to major ports. | 2021 |
| Voluntary National Review 2021 - CHN | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Constructing offshore deep-water ports. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Transport asset management information system | Build a new generation of automated terminals, applying cloud computing, big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and other technologies to integrate port, shipping, and trade data to create a "smart brain" for the port. Promote the application of BIM+GIS technology in all stages of port planning, design, construction, and maintenance, and promote digital management throughout the entire life cycle. Comprehensively advance the development of digital waterways. Focusing on high-grade waterways, strengthen waterway infrastructure information collection capabilities and promote the full-element, full-cycle digitization of waterways, navigation marks, and regulatory structures. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Transport finance - General | Develop modern shipping services such as shipping finance, shipping insurance, shipping brokerage, maritime arbitration, shipping transactions, and information consulting, and expand services such as bulk commodity trading, cross-border trade, and futures delivery. | 2021 |
| Planning Outline of National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network (2021-2035) | Transport finance - General | Innovate investment and financing policies, and improve long-term funding channels that match project funding needs and deadlines. Build an investment mechanism for sustainable development of benefit growth and risk prevention and control, and prevent and resolve debt risks. Further adjust and improve funding policies to support the development of postal and water transport. Support various financial institutions to provide financing for market-oriented transportation development in accordance with the law and guide social capital to actively participate in transportation infrastructure construction. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Transport institutional reform | Promote the development of the water transport credit system. Improve the policy framework for the water transport credit system and advance comprehensive coverage, standardized collection, systematic sharing, and large-scale application of credit information. Strengthen interim and ex-post supervision of port shoreline approvals, and establish a regulatory mechanism based on “random inspections and public disclosure” as the main approach, supplemented by key supervision and grounded in credit-based regulation. Optimize port operation licensing, and gradually implement a notification and commitment system for ordinary cargo port operation permits. Deepen the reform of port pricing mechanisms and further liberalize fees for market-competitive services. Strengthen the promotion of a culture of integrity and encourage industry associations and social credit service institutions to participate in credit system development. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Transport international conventions - General | Deepen international cooperation in ports, shipping, and maritime affairs. Improve international cooperation mechanisms, promote alignment with maritime laws, policies, rules, and standards with countries and regions along the Maritime Silk Road, actively negotiate and sign new maritime agreements, and promote international exchange and cooperation in maritime affairs. Strengthen cooperation with the International Maritime Organization and deepen participation in global maritime governance. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Transport Laws and Regulations- General | Improve laws and regulations. Accelerate the formulation and revision of relevant laws and regulations, including the "Port Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Maritime Code of the People's Republic of China," the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on International Shipping," the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Waterway Management," and the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Inland Waterway Traffic Safety Management." Study and promote the formulation and revision of the "Regulations on Port Planning and Management," the "Administrative Measures for the Approval and Administration of Port Shoreline Use," the "Administrative Measures for the Bidding and Tendering of Waterway Engineering Construction Projects," and the "Regulations on Ship Pilotage Management," as well as related rules and regulations. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Transport resilience - general | Serve to safeguard national economic security. Relying on specialized port terminals, we will increase storage capacity for crude oil, LNG, iron ore, etc., appropriately advance the construction of national grain, energy, and strategic mineral resource loading, storage, and transit bases, and enhance the risk resistance and safety and stability of the port link. Continue to advance safety supervision and emergency rescue capacity building. Promote the development of an integrated water transportation safety assurance system encompassing land, sea, air, and space. Improve the layout of supervision and rescue bases and facilities in key waters, gradually achieve full coverage of safety monitoring systems such as VTS and CCTV, strengthen the deployment of facilities and equipment for water rescue, salvage, oil spills, and hazardous chemical disposal, enhance inland deepwater emergency rescue capabilities, promote the use of new rescue equipment such as drones, autonomous boats, and underwater robots, and promote integrated patrol and rescue operations. Upgrade and improve waterway transportation emergency command systems at all levels, achieve interconnectivity within and outside the industry, and enhance waterway transportation emergency response capabilities. | 2021 |
| 14th Five Year Development Plan for Water Transport | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Actively promote the standardization of inland waterway transport vessels, explore the optimization of regional standard ship types, and simplify ship type standards. Promote the standardization of ro-ro passenger ferries in key regions, and develop standard ship types for Yangtze River cruise transport. Support various regions in studying and implementing policies to ensure priority passage for container ships and ships using clean energy. Support shipping companies in accelerating ship capacity adjustments, guide the development of specialized transport vessels such as container ships, ro-ro commercial vehicle ships, and heavy-lift vessels, and improve macroeconomic regulation policies for the passenger and dangerous goods transport markets. Encourage shipping companies to increase investment in scientific research and promote the development of intelligent ships. Coordinate and promote key core technology research, including the manufacturing of high-power LNG engines and low-speed, high-power diesel engines, and the design and construction of high-tech ships such as large cruise ships and LNG transport vessels. Promote the development and widespread application of river-to-sea vessels, and encourage the use of Beidou terminals on ships and emergency equipment. | 2021 |
| 14th Five-Year Plan | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Promote the research and development and application of CR450 high-speed Chinese standard EMUs, pedigree Chinese standard subway trains, high-end machine tools, advanced engineering machinery, key components of nuclear power units, cruise ships, large LNG ships and deep-sea oil and gas production platforms. | 2021 |
| Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking before 2030 ('1+N') | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | We will work faster to upgrade old ships, and develop ships fueled by electric power and liquefied natural gas. | 2021 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels | Improve the construction of green service systems such as water green comprehensive service areas and liquefied natural gas refueling terminals. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Coordinate planning across government agencies | Promote the coordinated development of ports, industries, and cities. Strengthen the effective connection between ports and urban and rural construction and industrial development layout, promote the coordinated development of urban landscape shorelines and port production shorelines, strengthen the construction of tourist passenger terminals, inland cruise terminals, and convenient terminals in reservoir areas, and integrate port pollution prevention and control into the urban ecological environment protection system. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Disaster notification/ early warning system | Develop monitoring and early warning technologies for maintaining and improving the service performance of infrastructure. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | eVTOL and Drones | Establish and improve the inland waterway emergency rescue command system, improve the layout planning and construction of water transportation safety supervision and rescue systems, strengthen the promotion and application of new equipment and technologies such as drones and underwater robots, | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Freight and logistics improvements - General | Optimize port storage facilities and distribution networks, improve the efficiency of waterway ports, expand the functions of modern logistics, commercial services, and bulk commodity trade in ports, and promote the development of a full-process logistics supply service chain with ports as the centres. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Freight intermodality - General | Develop economically efficient river-sea combined transport and multimodal transport. Improve the relevant policies and technical standards for the development of direct river-sea transport, form a river-sea transport logistics system that organically connects river-sea direct transport and river-sea combined transport, and improve the service level of river-sea transport. Strengthen information resource sharing, accelerate the unification of technical standards and service rules, and vigorously develop multimodal transport with ports as hubs and “single-document system” as the core. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Green shipping program | Major breakthroughs have been made in inland waterway transport infrastructure, transport services, green development, and safety supervision. The proportion of new energy and clean energy ships has increased significantly, and pollutants such as ship sewage and garbage have been collected and discharged in compliance with standards; new generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are widely used in inland shipping. Strengthen ecological protection and restoration of inland waterway transportation. Strictly adhere to the red line of ecological protection, integrate the concept of resource conservation and environmental protection into the entire process of inland waterway planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation, and promote the construction of green waterways and green ports. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Hydrogen | Increase the promotion and application of new energy and clean energy. Promote LNG energy-saving and environmentally friendly ships, explore the development of pure electric, fuel cell and other power ships, and study and promote the application of solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen energy and other industries. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Infrastructure improvements - General | Strengthen forward-looking basic research on the construction and maintenance of important infrastructure. Promote key technologies such as the construction, maintenance, and ecological restoration of waterway regulation and navigation buildings, as well as the research and development of inland waterway safety control and emergency search and rescue technologies based on ship-shore collaboration. Promote the construction of safe and quality projects for a century. Develop infrastructure intelligent design and construction technologies that integrate high-energy and low-consumption materials, building information models (BIM), and prefabricated technologies. Develop monitoring and early warning technologies for maintaining and improving the service performance of infrastructure. Breakthrough in the maintenance technology of multi-line infrastructure in the inland port and shipping network that coordinates space, function, and life. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | The inland waterway with a thousand-ton level reaches 25,000 kilometers. The emergency arrival time for important sections does not exceed 45 minutes, and the emergency arrival time for major ports (areas) does not exceed 30 minutes. | 2020 |
| 14th Five Year Plan for the Construction of Modern Logistics System | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | For river corridors, improve the navigability standards of trunk waterways in the middle and upper reaches. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Build an inland waterway system that connects the river and the sea. With thousand-ton waterways as the backbone, we will accelerate the construction of national high-grade waterways that traverse the east and west, connect the north and south, and reach the seaport. We will build a national high-grade waterway network in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta that adapts to the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, connect with major coastal ports, improve internal communications, and build river-sea transport channels in water network areas. Coordinated development of international navigable rivers and waterways. Comply with relevant international agreements, actively promote the comprehensive development, utilization, maintenance and management of important international navigable rivers and waterways such as the Heilongjiang River, Lancang River, and Yalu River, and orderly promote the construction, maintenance and management of other international navigable rivers and waterways such as the Tumen River, Ergun River, Wusuli River, Red River, Nujiang River, and Beilun River. Actively expand other waterways. Actively promote the construction of tributary waterways in the eastern region and expand the scope of water transport services. Improve the capacity of tributary waterways and reservoir and lake waterways in the central and western regions to improve regional transportation and people's travel conditions. Adhere to the comprehensive utilization of the Yellow River's water resources and ecological protection, and promote the construction of waterways in various sections of the Yellow River according to local conditions. In light of local conditions, actively promote the development of tourist waterways and the resumption of navigation at locks and dams that block navigation . By 2035, a modern inland waterway transport system that satisfies the people, has strong guarantees and is at the forefront of the world will be basically established. Major breakthroughs have been made in inland waterway transport infrastructure, transport services, green development, and safety supervision. The comparative advantages in comprehensive transportation have been fully utilized, and the guarantee capacity for serving national strategies has been significantly enhanced. By 2050, a modern inland waterway transportation system that satisfies the people, has strong guarantees and is at the forefront of the world will be fully established. The east-west cross-regional waterway transportation channels will be efficient and unobstructed, and the north-south cross-water system will be connected. With first-class port and shipping infrastructure, first-class shipping technology and equipment, high-quality shipping services, and intelligent safety supervision, the governance system and governance capacity will be fully modernized to serve the socialist modern power. The proportion of new energy and clean energy ships has increased significantly, and pollutants such as ship sewage and garbage have been collected and discharged in compliance with standards; new generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are widely used in inland shipping. With thousand-ton waterways as the backbone, we will accelerate the construction of national high-level waterways that cross the east and west, connect the north and south, and reach the seaports. Strengthen the east-west cross-regional water transport channel, form the horizontal corridors of the Yangtze River, Xijiang River, Huaihe River and Heilongjiang River, study and solve the bottleneck of navigation in the Three Gorges hub, promote the preliminary work of the new water transport channel in the Three Gorges hub, and expand and extend the main tributary waterways. Open up the north-south cross-basin water transport channel, build a new Grand Canal, coordinate and promote the restoration of navigation in the section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal north of the Yellow River between the Yangtze River, Pearl River, Huaihe River and other major water systems, as well as canal communication projects such as the Pinglu Canal, and form the vertical corridors of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the Jianghuai Main Line, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Guangdong Channel, and the Han-Hunan-Guangxi Channel. Build a national high-grade waterway network in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta that adapts to the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, connect with major coastal ports, improve internal communications, and build river-sea transport channels in water network areas. Develop high-quality inland water passenger transport. Promote the integrated development of inland water passenger transport with tourism, culture, and cities, promote the tourism, comfort, and passenger-roll-ro passenger development of water passenger transport, and improve the quality of passenger transport. Improve the quality and level of rural inland water passenger transport service facilities according to local conditions, and promote the equalization of public transportation services. Create high-quality inland waterway routes with high standards and enrich and improve the diversified water tourism passenger transport products. Strengthen ecological protection and restoration of inland waterway transportation. Strictly adhere to the red line of ecological protection, integrate the concept of resource conservation and environmental protection into the entire process of inland waterway planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation, and promote the construction of green waterways and green ports. Upgrade and improve the waterway transportation emergency command system at all levels, and strengthen the effective monitoring of the "four types" of key ships and key waters and key waterways. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Innovations and digitalization - General | Improve safety supervision and emergency rescue capabilities. Establish and improve the inland waterway emergency rescue command system, improve the layout planning and development of water transportation safety supervision and rescue systems, strengthen the promotion and application of new equipment and technologies such as drones and underwater robots, and strengthen the construction of core capabilities such as dynamic perception and early warning of water transportation, rapid and effective rescue of human lives, and disposal of ship oil spills and hazardous chemicals. Accelerate the normalization of the Beidou navigation system on the Yangtze River and Xijiang shipping trunk lines, and gradually cover the inland rivers across the country. Promote independent research and development and application of major core equipment. Gradually promote the research and construction of a new generation of automated terminals. Conduct research and application of port cargo collection and distribution equipment such as autonomous driving container trucks, rail platforms, and large drones under the end-network-cloud architecture. Conduct research on core technologies of intelligent shipping with the goal of ship autonomous driving, intelligent organization, and coordinated dispatching. Develop ship salvage technology and equipment under rapids, turbid waters, and deep water conditions. Realize efficient and convenient intelligent comprehensive information services. Promote the construction of comprehensive information service platforms such as electronic navigation charts, ship lock dispatching, and port and shipping infrastructure maintenance based on cloud-network interaction. Use information technologies such as big data and blockchain to build a port economic ecosystem that integrates multiple resource elements. Accelerate the deployment of new generation mobile communications, satellite communications (Beidou), etc. in key waters, navigable buildings, and ports. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Intelligent transport systems (ITS) | Gradually promote the research and construction of a new generation of automated terminals. Conduct research and application of port cargo collection and distribution equipment such as autonomous driving container trucks, rail platforms, and large drones under the end-network-cloud architecture. Conduct research on core technologies of intelligent shipping with the goal of ship autonomous driving, intelligent organization, and coordinated dispatching. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | LPG/ CNG/ LNG | Vigorously develop specialized ships such as container, LNG, commercial vehicle roll-on/roll-off, and chemical transport, and actively develop closed bulk carriers. Increase the promotion and application of new energy and clean energy. Promote LNG energy-saving and environmentally friendly ships, explore the development of pure electric, fuel cell and other power ships, and study and promote the application of solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen energy and other industries. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Maritime Safety | Establish and improve the inland waterway emergency rescue command system, improve the layout planning and construction of water transportation safety supervision and rescue systems, strengthen the promotion and application of new equipment and technologies such as drones and underwater robots, Formulate and revise ship safety technical standards, facility and equipment equipment standards, and manning standards. Vigorously develop specialized ships such as container, LNG, commercial vehicle roll-on/roll-off, and chemical transport, and actively develop closed bulk carriers. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Modal shift | The turnover of inland waterway cargo accounts for 9% of the total social volume. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Modal shift | Improve the collection and distribution system, promote the construction of connecting channels between key port areas and riverside development zones and logistics parks, speed up the opening of the "last mile" of railways and high-level roads to ports, and strive to increase the proportion of bulk cargo rail-waterway collection and distribution and container rail-waterway transport, effectively reducing logistics costs. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Operational efficiency in logistics | Optimize port storage facilities and distribution networks, improve the efficiency of waterway ports, | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Performance-based transport maintenance contracts | Coordinate the construction, management, maintenance and use of infrastructure. Improve the regular maintenance management tracking and analysis mechanism of inland waterways and the market-oriented mechanism of dredging and maintenance. Strengthen infrastructure maintenance investment and operation management. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Planning to reduce future vulnerabilities and minimizing losses | Improve the safety risk prevention and control and supervision system. Improve the dual prevention mechanism of safety production risk classification control and accident hazard investigation and treatment, and establish a complete safety risk list. Promote enterprises to implement the main responsibility for safety production and the construction of safety production standardization, and strengthen pre-event and in-event safety supervision. Continue to strengthen safety supervision in key waters, key ports, key ships, and key time periods, and strengthen joint prevention and control in important areas such as dangerous chemical transportation, water passenger transportation, and urban ferry transportation. Improve emergency management mechanisms and plans, incorporate them into the urban emergency plan system, strengthen the construction of professional rescue and emergency management talent teams, support the development of social rescue forces, and improve the public's water transportation safety literacy and awareness. Improve safety supervision and emergency rescue capabilities. Establish and improve the inland waterway emergency rescue command system, improve the layout planning and construction of water transportation safety supervision and rescue systems, strengthen the promotion and application of new equipment and technologies such as drones and underwater robots, and strengthen the construction of core capabilities such as dynamic perception and early warning of water transportation, rapid and effective rescue of human lives, and disposal of ship oil spills and hazardous chemicals. Accelerate the normalization of the Beidou navigation system on the Yangtze River trunk line and the Xijiang shipping trunk line, and gradually cover the inland rivers across the country. Upgrade and improve the waterway transportation emergency command system at all levels, and strengthen the effective monitoring of the "four categories" of key ships and key waters and key waterways. Improve the safety risk prevention and control and monitoring system. Improve the dual prevention mechanism of safety production risk classification control and accident hazard investigation and treatment, and establish a complete safety risk list. Promote enterprises to implement the main responsibility for safety production and the construction of safety production standardization, and strengthen pre-event and in-event safety supervision. Continue to strengthen safety supervision in key waters, key ports, key ships, and key time periods, and strengthen joint prevention and control in important areas such as dangerous chemical transportation, water passenger transportation, and urban ferry transportation. | 2020 |
| 14th Five Year Plan for the Construction of Modern Logistics System | Port electrification | Actively promote the transformation and use of shore power for ships, ports, and airport bridges. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Port electrification | Promote the use of shore power by ships at ports. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Rail infrastructure expansion | Major ports and key port areas have basically achieved rail access. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Renewable energy | Increase the promotion and application of new energy and clean energy. Promote LNG energy-saving and environmentally friendly ships, explore the development of pure electric, fuel cell and other power ships, and study and promote the application of solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen energy and other industries. | 2020 |
| 14th Five Year Plan for the Construction of Modern Logistics System | Shipping improvement - General | Improve the level of international shipping services. Expand the international shipping route network of coastal ports, strengthen the construction of international hub ports such as Shanghai Port, Dalian Port, Tianjin Port, Qingdao Port, Lianyungang Port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Xiamen Port, Shenzhen Port, Guangzhou Port, Beibu Gulf Port, and Yangpu Port, improve the ability of transit radiation organization, and improve the comprehensive service functions such as shipping transactions, international trade, and financial insurance. Improve the port freight service functions and extend the port and shipping value-added service chain. Improve the supply chain organization and container cargo matching capabilities of shipping companies, deepen the logistics information connection with foreign trade companies, integrate domestic and foreign logistics network resources, form a world-class fleet, and cultivate international competitive advantages in shipping. Promote the application of blockchain in the field of international shipping and explore the issuance of blockchain electronic bills of lading. Deepen the construction of a global shipping service network based on blockchain. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Shipping improvement - General | By 2035, a modern inland waterway transport system that satisfies the people, has strong guarantees and is at the forefront of the world will be basically established. Major breakthroughs have been made in inland waterway infrastructure, transportation services, green development, and safety supervision. The comparative advantages in comprehensive transportation have been fully utilized, and the guarantee capacity for serving national strategies has been significantly enhanced. The proportion of new energy and clean energy ships has increased significantly, and pollutants such as ship sewage and garbage have been collected and discharged in compliance with standards; new generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are widely used in inland waterway shipping. By 2050, a modern inland waterway transportation system that satisfies the people, has strong guarantees and is at the forefront of the world will be fully established. The east-west cross-regional waterway transportation channels will be efficient and unobstructed, and the north-south cross-water system will be connected. With first-class port and shipping infrastructure , first-class shipping technology and equipment, high-quality shipping services, and intelligent safety supervision, the governance system and governance capacity will be fully modernized to serve the socialist modern power. Develop high-quality inland water passenger transport. Promote the integrated development of inland water passenger transport with tourism, culture, and cities, promote the tourism, comfort, and passenger-carrying development of water passenger transport, and improve the quality of passenger transport. Improve the quality and level of rural inland water passenger transport service facilities according to local conditions, and promote equalization of public transportation services. Create high-quality inland water routes with high standards, and enrich and improve the diversified products of water tourism passenger transport. Strengthen the prevention and control of pollution from ships and ports. Study and promote the extension of the ship emission control zone policy to inland rivers across the country, and improve emission control standards. Accelerate the construction and regular operation of facilities such as port ship pollutant reception and transfer, chemical tank cleaning stations, and dangerous chemical anchorages along key waterways such as the Yangtze River main line, and take the lead in implementing zero emissions from ships to water bodies in closed waters such as important reservoirs and lakes. Coordinate the upgrading and renovation of existing terminal environmental protection facilities and the construction and use of new terminal environmental protection facilities. Strengthen the construction and supervision of intelligent monitoring and early warning capabilities in key waters. Accelerate the research and development of specific ship types for direct river-sea access, as well as large-scale leisure and vacation luxury cruise ships and short-distance leisure and sightseeing cruise ship types. Create a new era shipping culture carrier. Support the construction of cultural belts and landscape corridors along the river, strengthen the comprehensive protection and development of the historical culture and cultural landscape of the ancient canal, improve relevant facilities, equipment and management systems, and encourage popular science education and experience tours. Consolidate and develop the achievements of the industry's spiritual civilization. Integrate resources such as large-scale shipping forums, exhibitions, festivals, and Maritime Day, make full use of traditional and emerging media to innovate and organize shipping cultural publicity activities, and build an international shipping cultural event with global influence. Improve professional ethics and civilized service standards, and continuously improve the level of civilization in the industry. | 2020 |
| 14th Five Year Plan for the Construction of Modern Logistics System | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Expand the international shipping route network of coastal ports, strengthen the construction of international hub ports such as Shanghai Port, Dalian Port, Tianjin Port, Qingdao Port, Lianyungang Port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Xiamen Port, Shenzhen Port, Guangzhou Port, Beibu Gulf Port, and Yangpu Port, improve the ability of transit radiation organization, and improve the comprehensive service functions such as shipping transactions, international trade, and financial insurance. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | Strengthen the radiation function of port hubs. Improve the collection and distribution system, promote the construction of connecting channels between key port areas and riverside development zones and logistics parks, speed up the opening of the "last mile" of railways and high-level roads to ports, and strive to increase the proportion of bulk cargo rail-waterway collection and distribution and container rail-waterway transport, effectively reducing logistics costs. Optimize port storage facilities and distribution networks, improve the efficiency of water transport ports, expand the port's modern logistics, commercial services, and bulk commodity trade functions, and promote the development of a full-process logistics supply service chain with ports as hubs. Promote resource integration and improve port layout. Deepen the integration of port resources, orderly and effectively promote the integrated development of regional ports, and form a development pattern with clear levels, complementary functions and orderly competition. Classify and revitalize the existing port shorelines, strictly control the newly added port shorelines, and strive to strengthen the construction of intensive and large-scale public port areas. Standardize the construction and management of port public anchorages, and coordinate the sharing of public resources such as waterways, anchorages, and water service areas. Promote the coordinated development of ports, industries, and cities. Strengthen the effective connection between ports and urban and rural construction and industrial development layout, promote the coordinated development of urban landscape shorelines and port production shorelines, strengthen the construction of tourist passenger terminals, inland cruise terminals, and convenient terminals in reservoir areas, and integrate port pollution prevention and control into the urban ecological environment protection system. Strengthen the application of energy-saving and emission reduction technologies in ports. Strictly adhere to the red line of ecological protection, integrate the concept of resource conservation and environmental protection into the entire process of inland waterway planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation, and promote the construction of green waterways and green ports. Promote ecological restoration projects for early-stage shipping facilities, and strengthen ecological protection and restoration of important ecological functional areas. Implement port greening projects and guide ports to adopt various measures to carry out ecological restoration of land and water areas. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Solar energy | Increase the promotion and application of new energy and clean energy. Promote LNG energy-saving and environmentally friendly ships, explore the development of pure electric, fuel cell and other power ships, and study and promote the application of solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen energy and other industries. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Stakeholder involvement - General | Build a unified, open, competitive and orderly modern market system. Strengthen government monitoring and information guidance of the shipping market, and improve the new industry supervision mechanism based on credit. Give full play to the role of industry associations, alliances and other organizations to guide the spontaneous and healthy development of the industry. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Technical standards for general transport infrastructure | Improve the inherent safety level of facilities and equipment. Improve the technical standards and specifications for the safety of inland waterway infrastructure, build a modern engineering construction quality management system, continue to increase investment in infrastructure safety protection and maintenance management, and promote quality construction and meticulous management. Strengthen the quality management of ships, port machinery and other means of transport to ensure the safety of transportation equipment. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Transport asset condition assessment | Develop monitoring and early warning technologies for maintaining and improving the service performance of infrastructure. | 2020 |
| 14th Five Year Plan for the Construction of Modern Logistics System | Transport asset management information system | Expand the functions of logistics information platforms, optimize the supply and demand docking of dispersed logistics resources such as vehicles, ships and warehouses, and improve the level of logistics scale organization. Build a national logistics hub operation platform, integrate logistics services such as storage, transportation, warehousing and distribution, and innovate integrated logistics organization models. Build a supply chain service platform to provide comprehensive services such as information and logistics. Improve the emergency logistics operation guarantee mechanism, guide the establishment of an emergency logistics big data platform, promote data sharing with the emergency management information platform, improve functions such as information collection, dynamic monitoring, data analysis, risk warning, and information release, focus on strengthening research and assessment of the risks of large-scale logistics disruptions, and improve emergency logistics organization capabilities. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Transport institutional reform | Promote the transformation and upgrading of port and shipping enterprises. Promote the scale, intensive and professional development of port and shipping enterprises, optimize the market entity structure, and encourage advantageous enterprises to promote joint ventures and mergers and reorganizations. Actively develop inland waterway shipping logistics and supply chain systems, and promote the transformation of port and shipping enterprises into full-process logistics carriers. Encourage shipping enterprises to develop upstream and downstream such as ships, ports, cargo, and finance, and build an integrated industrial chain development and operation model. Deepen the reform of inland waterway shipping authority. Consolidate and improve the reform of the Yangtze River shipping administrative system, and promote the study and improvement of the shipping management system and mechanism such as the Xijiang shipping trunk line. Improve the comprehensive administrative law enforcement system and mechanism for transportation, strengthen regional cooperation and joint law enforcement, and resolutely crack down on illegal sand mining and ship overloading. Promote the establishment of bilateral or multilateral long-term exchange and cooperation mechanisms with neighboring countries. Promote the construction of law-based government departments and the reform of the administrative approval system. Study and formulate an inland waterway standard system that reflects high-quality development, and strengthen standard implementation and supervision. Further reform and improve the industry statistics system. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Transport international conventions - General | Coordinated development of international navigable rivers and waterways. Comply with relevant international agreements, actively promote the comprehensive development, utilization, maintenance and management of important international navigable rivers and waterways such as the Heilongjiang River, Lancang River, and Yalu River, and orderly promote the construction, maintenance and management of other international navigable rivers and waterways such as the Tumen River, Ergun River, Wusuli River, Red River, Nujiang River, and Beilun River. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Transport Laws and Regulations- General | Improve the legal and standard system. Study and promote the formulation of laws and regulations such as the Shipping Law, promote the revision of industry laws and regulations such as the Port Law and the Waterway Law in a timely manner, and further improve supporting laws, regulations and standards. | 2020 |
| Outline for the Development of Inland Waterway Transport | Vessel scrappage and retrofit | Promote the development of standardized and specialized transport ships. Continue to promote the standardization of ship types, promote the unification of standards for transport ships in water systems or regions, and guide the existing non-standard ships to gradually withdraw from the shipping market. | 2020 |
| Outline for Building a Strong Transportation Nation | Green shipping program | Strictly implement national and local pollutant control standards and ship emission area requirements, and promote pollution prevention and control of ships and ports. | 2019 |
| Outline for Building a Strong Transportation Nation | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Strengthen the inland waterway shipping safety control and emergency search and rescue technologies based on ship-shore coordination. | 2019 |
| Outline for Building a Strong Transportation Nation | Logistics hub | Build a multi-level, integrated comprehensive transportation hub system. Relying on world-class urban agglomerations such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, create international seaport hubs, aviation hubs, and postal express core hubs with global competitiveness, build a number of national and regional transportation hubs, promote the integrated planning and construction of comprehensive transportation hubs, improve the level of transfers and outfitting, and improve the collection and distribution system. Vigorously develop hub economies. Coordinate the construction of free trade pilot zones and free trade ports with Chinese characteristics. | 2019 |
| Outline for Building a Strong Transportation Nation | Maritime Safety | Strengthen the inland waterway shipping safety control and emergency search and rescue technologies based on ship-shore coordination. Maintain the safety and smooth operation of important international shipping channels. | 2019 |
| Outline for Building a Strong Transportation Nation | Modal shift | Optimize the transportation structure, accelerate the construction of key projects such as port collection and distribution railways, logistics parks and railway dedicated lines for large industrial and mining enterprises, and promote the orderly transfer of bulk goods and medium and long-distance goods transportation to railways and water transport. | 2019 |
| Outline for Building a Strong Transportation Nation | Shipping improvement - General | Strengthen the independent design and construction capabilities of large and medium-sized cruise ships, large liquefied natural gas ships, polar navigation ships, smart ships, and new energy ships. Develop new equipment such as underwater robots, deep diving equipment, large oil spill recovery ships, large deep-sea multifunctional rescue ships, etc. Improve the global connectivity of maritime and civil aviation, build a world-class international shipping center, and promote the construction of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. | 2019 |
| China's First NDC Submission | Alternative fuels - General | Encourage the development and use of low-carbon and environmentally friendly transportation tools such as new energy vehicles and ships, improve fuel quality, and promote new alternative fuels. | 2016 |