Ministry of Transport： Guide and urge all localities to promote new energy buses and taxis

　　China News Service, June 8, according to the website of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Transport issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Promoting Consumption Expansion and Quality of Transportation" on the 8th, saying that it is necessary to promote the development of green consumption in transportation, guide and urge localities to further promote the application of new energy buses and taxis, and gradually promote the electrification and cleanliness of urban public transportation and urban logistics distribution vehicles.

　　According to reports, in order to implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on expanding domestic demand, promote the expansion and quality of consumption, promote the formation of a strong domestic market, serve the "Six Stability" work, and implement the "Six Guarantees" task, with the approval of the Ministry of Transport, the relevant work notice on promoting consumption expansion and quality of transportation is as follows:

　　The first is to improve transportation infrastructure conditions and stimulate consumption potential. On the basis of promoting the perfect layout of transportation infrastructure and three-dimensional interconnection, we should highlight problem orientation and goal orientation, and focus on promoting a number of transportation infrastructure buildings that have obvious effects on promoting consumption, so as to create conditions for stimulating consumption potential.

　　Accelerate intercity transportation infrastructure building. Focus on key urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Shuangcheng Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and promote the formation of a multi-level rapid transportation network with rail transit and expressways as the skeleton. Improve urban agglomerations and metropolitan area center urban transportation infrastructure building, vigorously develop public transportation, and improve the level of transportation integration. Gradually form a 1-hour commute in metropolitan areas, and a 2-hour accessibility in urban agglomerations.

　　Improve the rural transportation infrastructure network. Promote the high-quality development of "Four Good Rural Roads", vigorously promote the withdrawal of organized villages and other large-scale natural villages with a population, and the opening of hardened roads to border natural villages, and promote more transportation projects to enter villages and households. Deepen the reform of the rural highway management and maintenance system, and speed up the establishment of a long-term mechanism for management and maintenance. Promote the construction of facilities such as ferry reform bridges, land and island transportation terminals, Kuhu District waterways and convenience docks, and improve the conditions for ferries in remote areas. Improve rural logistics infrastructure and service facilities, guide township passenger terminals to expand their functions of commerce, logistics, postal express delivery, etc., and realize "one point and more capabilities, one network and multiple uses, and multi-station integration".

　　Improve the development quality of comprehensive transportation hubs. Promote the construction of comprehensive passenger transportation hubs, and guide and drive the centralized layout, space sharing, three-dimensional or co-platform transfer of various transportation mode facilities. Encourage the use of large-scale comprehensive passenger transportation hubs as carriers to promote the agglomeration and development of related consumer industries such as commerce and finance, tourism and catering, shopping and entertainment, and build an urban complex. Promote the construction of logistics nodes such as national logistics hubs and freight hubs (logistics parks), and guide logistics nodes to expand service functions such as cold chain, postal express, cross-border e-commerce, and air logistics.

　　The second is to improve the quality of transportation services and upgrade service consumption. In response to the difficulties and painpoints faced by passenger travel and lifestyle logistics services, efforts will be made to improve the speed and convenience of travel services, promote the green and efficient development of freight logistics services, and open up the "blockage point" restricting consumption in the transportation sector to enhance consumption vitality.

　　Improve passenger transportation services. Speed up the remaining townships and villages with the conditions to pass buses, consolidate the achievements of the existing buses, and ensure the high-quality completion of the goal of passing buses by the end of September 2020. Fully realize the normal operation of the passenger rolling transport liner in the Qiongzhou Strait, and further shorten the average time for passengers to cross the sea. According to local conditions, promote the improvement of night economic transportation supporting services. Continuously meet the special needs of the disabled, the elderly and other groups, and improve the level of barrier-free and convenient travel services.

　　Optimize passenger transfer services. Further enhance the service level of passenger intermodal transportation, and effectively improve passenger travel experience. Encourage localities to strengthen innovation, and promote the opening and sharing of information on various modes of transportation, management coordination, optimization of security inspection processes, and integration of ticketing services. Promote the experience and practices of passenger intermodal transportation in Heilongjiang, Beijing, Nanjing, Shenzhen and other places. Strengthen the connection of urban public transportation and auxiliary public transportation services in comprehensive passenger transportation hubs, and improve the level of passenger "last mile" connection services. According to market demand, encourage the establishment of car rental service outlets at airports, railway stations, port passenger terminals, etc.

　　Improve the level of ticketing services. Encourage enterprises to use the Internet and other information technology applications to improve the level of ticketing services for networking, connecting, off-site, round-trip, and refund tickets, and guide Internet enterprises to provide "one-stop ticketing services" for intermodal transportation. Expand transportation card travel applications in taxis, city ferries, and road passenger transportation operated by buses. Promote road passenger e-tickets, and carry out pilot applications of road passenger e-tickets in Beijing, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other provinces to improve the level of digitalization and informatization of road passenger transportation, and improve passenger travel experience. Promote the application of waterway passenger e-tickets, and carry out e-ticket applications in key waters such as Qiongzhou Strait and Bohai Bay. Continue to promote the implementation of the cruise ticket management system.

　　Improve the service level of life logistics. Promote the construction of "Global 123 Express Logistics Circle" to support the growing demand of residents for fast and convenient logistics services. Deepen the urban green freight distribution demonstration project, and guide local governments to coordinate urban transportation and urban material distribution needs according to the actual development, and accurately formulate urban distribution vehicle traffic control policies. Encourage local governments to strengthen departmental cooperation, promote information and data sharing, and provide support for improving the informatization level of urban freight distribution. Improve cold chain transportation standards and norms, improve the technical equipment level of cold chain logistics vehicles, and improve the quality of cold chain transportation services. Continue to promote the integration of delivery and mail, and improve the rural logistics service system at the county, township, and village levels.

　　The third is to promote the cross-industry integration of transportation and cultivate new consumption. Give full play to the advantages and characteristics of transportation points, long lines, and wide coverage, promote the integration and linkage of transportation "upstream and downstream, left and right" industries, and improve the application and development level of new technologies, new formats, and new models. Provide support for new consumption.

　　Promote the integration of transportation and tourism and sports industries. Strengthen the connection between expressways and scenic transportation, fully consider the connection with key scenic roads in expressway planning and construction, and improve the setting of traffic guidance signs. Promote the expressway service area to expand tourism, consumption and other functions according to local conditions, and combine regional characteristics to support RV parking spaces, gas stations, new energy vehicle charging piles and other facilities and equipment. Continue to promote the construction of tourist roads, tourist waterways, cruise yacht terminals, promote the development of cruise economy, tourism trains, low-altitude flight tourism, etc., and promote the cruise port to improve service levels. Encourage the creation of independent brand sports events featuring transportation resources.

　　Promote the integration of transportation and information industry. Promote the new transportation infrastructure building, improve the intelligent and digital level of transportation infrastructure. Promote the application of autonomous driving and vehicle-road coordination technology. Use "Internet +" technology to promote the healthy development of shared transportation, and encourage the development of new formats and models of travel services such as small and micro passenger car time-sharing leasing and road passenger transportation customization services. Encourage the development of "Internet +" efficient logistics, improve the level of automation, intelligence and digitalization of logistics, and improve the quality of services in areas such as timely delivery and cold chain express delivery, so as to effectively support the development of e-commerce and digital consumption.

　　Promote the development of green consumption in transportation. Guide and urge all localities to further promote the application of new energy buses and taxis, and gradually promote the electrification and cleanliness of urban public transportation and urban logistics distribution vehicles. Speed up the elimination of scrapped and old diesel trucks. Study and establish relevant standards and specifications for the safety and operation and maintenance of new energy vehicles in the field of road transportation. Guide logistics enterprises to use packaging that meets environmental protection and recyclable standards, avoid repeated packaging and excessive packaging, and improve the level of resource reuse and recycling.

　　The fourth is to create a safe transportation consumption environment and improve consumer satisfaction. Further enhance service awareness, and effectively safeguard consumer rights and interests through service innovation, transportation market supervision, and smooth rights protection channels, and strive to create a safe, convenient and comfortable transportation consumption environment.

　　Encourage innovation in service methods. Encourage all kinds of Internet platforms and market players to participate in the development of big data products and value-added services for transportation and tourism services, and use the mobile Internet as a carrier to provide the public with comprehensive information services such as diversified transportation, tourism, and sports events. Continue to deepen the expansion and application of ETC. Promote differentiated toll collection on expressways.

　　Maintain the order of the transportation market. Build a fair, open, competitive and orderly transportation market, improve market access and exit systems, and strive to improve the rules for the operation of the industry. In key areas such as transportation, transportation and logistics, build a new credit-based supervision mechanism, study and promote the interconnection of credit information, mutual recognition of credit evaluation, joint reward and punishment interaction, and credit repair interoperability. Cross-regional credit supervision and application, and optimize the overall credit environment of the industry. Promote the expansion and application of the electronic health file system for automobile maintenance to provide support for promoting used car transactions. Strengthen the supervision and management of transportation services, comprehensively use the Internet, WeChat, telephone and other channels to open up and accept problems reported by the masses, respond to problems in a timely manner and properly solve them, and improve consumer satisfaction.

　　Guarantee the safety of passengers’ travel. In accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Guidelines for the prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic in passenger stations and transportation vehicles by zoning and grading", do a good job in epidemic prevention and control of passenger stations and transportation vehicles. Supervise transportation enterprises to implement the main responsibility of safety management. Further strengthen safety supervision and emergency response capacity building. Increase investment in infrastructure safety protection, and improve the safety protection capacity of key infrastructure. Build a safe vehicle and ship terminal, strengthen safety inspection and danger work, and create a safe environment. Promote the sharing of inter-provincial chartered passenger transportation sign information and external inquiries, and improve the safety and standardized operation level of tourist chartered vehicles. Implement key supervision of safety production on long-distance passenger routes and sleeper buses over 800 kilometers.

　　Fifth, strengthen organization and implementation to ensure effective results. Strengthen organizational leadership, innovate working methods, strengthen publicity and guidance, strive to promote consumption expansion and quality improvement to achieve practical results, and provide strong support for coping with the adverse impact of the epidemic, effectively expanding domestic demand, and promoting the formation of a strong domestic market.

　　Strengthen organizational leadership. Transportation authorities at all levels should raise their political standing and fully understand the importance of transportation to promote consumption expansion and quality improvement. In their work, they should strengthen organizational leadership, improve service awareness, strengthen departmental linkage, refine and implement measures in combination with actual conditions, and increase the reform of "decentralization, management and service" to form a joint force to promote consumption expansion and quality improvement.

　　Innovate working methods. Strengthen policy innovation and system innovation, and encourage local transportation authorities to promote consumption expansion and quality improvement according to local conditions through pilot exploration, demonstration-driven, and policy support. For projects that meet the requirements of the pilot program for building a transportation power, are highly innovative and have outstanding demonstration-driven, the Ministry of Transport will be included in the pilot program according to the procedures.

　　Strengthen propaganda and guidance. Give full play to the role of the media in guiding public opinion, make extensive use of key news websites, major commercial websites and media platforms such as Weibo, WeChat, mobile client side, etc., carefully set topics, vigorously publicize the good experience and good practices of transportation to promote consumption expansion and quality, and play a typical demonstration and driving role.