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
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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
Transport energy consumption
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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 |