China’s road freight transport continues fast expansion in first nine months

2018-10-22
Xinhua

A container is loaded onto a truck at Jingtang port area of Tangshan Port, North China’s Hebei province, Jan 13, 2018. China’s road freight transport continued fast expansion in the first nine months of 2018, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement on Oct 20, 2018. From January to September, the amount of cargo carried on roads, which takes up the lion’s share in China’s total cargo transport, increased 7.5 percent year-on-year to 28.64 billion tons. The growth came amid China’s steady economic growth, which stood at 6.7 percent in the three quarters, above the government’s annual target of around 6.5 percent. [Photo/Xinhua]

Containers are loaded onto trucks at Jingtang port area of Tangshan Port, North China’s Hebei province, July 8, 2018. The throughput of Tangshan Port reached 303 million tons from January to June this year, growing 7.28 percent year-on-year. [Photo/Xinhua]

A truck loaded with new cars drives in Guoyuan Port in Chongqing, Southwest China, Aug 20, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

Aerial photo taken on July 15, 2017 shows a truck running on the Beijing-Urumqi Expressway in Hami, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua]

A truck runs on the second highway across Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Nov 27, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]

A truck runs on the road in Turpan, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Sept 22, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

Farmers load cartons of freshly harvested Hami melons onto a container truck in Hami, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, June 27, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]