People's Daily front page: Striving to become a strong transportation nation
The People's Daily article stated that my country's transportation science and technology innovation has achieved a leap from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, and from local advancement to system improvement: overcoming geological difficulties, the world's longest highway tunnel, the Tianshan Victory Tunnel, successfully runs through the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains; committed to independent innovation, the world's fastest high-speed train CR450 was successfully unveiled; speeding up smart transformation, more than 2,800 kilometers of the Yangtze River main channel waterway has achieved 5G full coverage, artificial intelligence has accelerated the application of transportation, and new technologies and new models such as autonomous driving, smart shipping, and smart logistics have flourished... Infrastructure construction is changing with each passing day, and equipment manufacturing capabilities have been greatly improved, which strongly supports the increasingly perfect modern comprehensive transportation system. By the end of 2024, more than 1/3 of the provinces in the country have achieved high-speed rail access to all cities, and more than 2/3 of the provinces have achieved high-speed access to all counties; the construction of "four good rural roads" has been accelerated, and the total mileage of rural roads has reached 4.64 million kilometers; aviation services cover 92.6% of prefecture-level administrative units and 91.2% of the population in the country; the number of express service networks has increased by 23,300. In the first half of this year, the fixed asset investment in transportation reached 1,647.4 billion yuan, and the cross-regional personnel flow reached 33.76 billion person-times.