Opinions of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified and Open Transportation Market
Opinions of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified and Open Transportation Market 2024-12-23 18:25 Source: Xinhua News Agency Xinhua News Agency Beijing, December 23
Opinions of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified and Open Transportation Market (December 12, 2024)
A unified and open transportation market is an important foundation for effectively connecting supply and demand and promoting the smooth circulation of the national economy. In order to deepen the reform of the comprehensive transportation system, accelerate the construction of a unified and open transportation market, and better serve the high-quality development of the economy and society, with the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the following opinions are hereby put forward.
I. General requirements
Adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, coordinate development and security, adhere to the system concept, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, give better play to the role of the government, deepen the reform of the system and mechanism of railways, highways, waterways, civil aviation, postal services and other industries, improve the system rules, and promote the cross-regional overall layout of transportation, cross-modality integration, and cross-field coordinated development. A unified and open transportation market will be formed, providing a solid guarantee
Deepening reform in key areas of transportation
(1) Improve the comprehensive transportation management system and mechanism. Improve the comprehensive transportation development, operation monitoring, public services, scientific and technological innovation, cyber security and informatization and other responsibility systems and operating mechanisms, and promote the development of railways, highways, waterways, civil aviation, postal services and other industries in a comprehensive manner. Promote the reform of highway toll collection system and maintenance system, and promote the optimization of toll highway policies. Build an all-factor water traffic management system, and improve the maritime supervision mechanism and model. Continue to promote the reform of air traffic control system, deepen the reform of low-altitude airspace management, and develop general aviation and low-altitude economy.
(2) Promote the coordinated development of comprehensive transportation. Strengthen the coordination of major policies for comprehensive transportation development, and promote the forward-looking planning and coordinated implementation of major projects across regions and fields. Do a good job in the connection between comprehensive transportation development planning and national economic and social development, land space and other planning. Strengthen the coordination of comprehensive transportation work in key regions, urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas.
(3) Perfect comprehensive transportation laws and regulations standards and statistical monitoring system. Carry out comprehensive transportation-related legislative research and argumentation, and promote the improvement of relevant laws and regulations in railways, highways, waterways, civil aviation, postal services and other industries. Improve comprehensive transportation standards and measurement systems, improve comprehensive transportation hubs, intermodal transportation and other key areas standards, and strengthen the convergence of standards for multiple transportation modes. Improve comprehensive transportation statistics survey system, accelerate the construction of a scientific observation network for the long-term performance of transportation infrastructure, and strengthen dynamic monitoring of public travel, transportation logistics, and transportation carbon emissions.
(4) Steadily advance the reform of natural monopoly links in the field of transportation. With in-depth promotion of the separation of government and enterprises, government and capital, concessions, and government supervision as the main content, accelerate the market-oriented reform of competitive links in railways and other industries, and clarify the scope of natural monopoly links and competitive links. Encourage and guide social capital to participate in railway construction and operation in accordance with laws and regulations. Promote the diversification and appropriate competition of railway transportation business entities, and support qualified enterprises to operate intercity railways and urban (suburban) railways independently. Support local holding railway enterprises to independently choose their operation and management models.
(5) Complete the multimodal transport operation system. Focusing on networking, supplementing networks, and strengthening chains, appropriately advance transportation infrastructure building, accelerate the construction of the main skeleton of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, and enhance the capacity of the national comprehensive freight hub. Strictly shut down and close the procedures for transportation infrastructure. Actively develop railway (high-speed rail) express transportation, dump and hook transportation, network freight, river-sea direct, water and water transit and other transportation organization models, accelerate the development of multimodal transportation such as iron water, railway, air and land, promote the coordination and mutual recognition of rules such as "one single system", and accelerate the cultivation of multimodal transportation business entities. Promote the development of specialized transportation such as cold chain and dangerous goods.
(6) Promote the transformation and upgrading of green and smart transportation. Carry out environmental impact assessments of transportation infrastructure planning and construction projects in accordance with regulations, ensure that the implementation of planning is consistent with ecological protection requirements, and strengthen the sharing of transportation energy consumption and carbon emission data. Improve the policy of clean energy substitution for transportation equipment, and promote the application of new energy and clean energy for medium and heavy trucks, ships and other means of transportation. Accelerate the adjustment and optimization of the transportation structure, and further promote the development of urban green freight distribution. Continue to implement pilot applications of intelligent transportation such as autonomous driving and intelligent shipping.
(7) Improve the transportation safety and emergency management system and mechanism. Incorporate safety development throughout the entire process of transportation development in all fields, strengthen the prevention and control of risk sources, implement the responsibility system for maintaining social stability, improve and implement the safety production responsibility system, improve the safety supervision mechanism of the transportation industry, strengthen the classification and control of safety production risks, strengthen the safety supervision and control of key areas such as passenger and dangerous goods transportation, and resolutely prevent and contain major accidents in the transportation field. Strengthen the construction of the safety guarantee system for major transportation infrastructure, strengthen the construction of the emergency logistics guarantee system, improve the waterproofing and disaster-bearing capacity of key areas and key facilities, and strengthen the support capacity for key materials and international container transportation. Implement the provincial government's responsibilities for local railway management, and consolidate the territorial responsibilities of environmental pollution control along the railway line (outside the red line), safety improvement along the railway line, and emergency rescue of railway traffic accidents.
(8) Promote a higher level of opening up in the field of transportation to the outside world. Build an institutional system and supervision model that is connected with international common rules, and steadily expand the opening up of rules, regulations, management, standards and other institutions. Actively connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, and promote institutional innovation in the field of transportation opening up in conditional free trade pilot zones and free trade ports. Improve shipping insurance underwriting capacity and global service level, and promote innovation in maritime arbitration system rules. Strengthen cooperation on transportation connectivity with countries that have jointly built the "Belt and Road Initiative", and make full use of existing platforms such as the China International Sustainable Transportation Innovation and Knowledge Center to promote global transportation cooperation. Accelerate the construction of an international logistics supply chain system, build a diverse international transportation channel, improve the global transportation service network, and enhance the resilience and safety of the logistics supply chain.
III. Perfect the transportation market system
(9) Perfect the market access and exit system. Strictly implement the "national one-list" management model. Include the transportation sector in the key scope of market access efficiency assessment, and strengthen the assessment, investigation and clearance of various explicit and implicit barriers. Establish and improve market exit mechanisms in road transportation, waterway transportation and other fields, standardize exit conditions, standards and specific procedures in accordance with the law, and strengthen requirements for safe operation, energy conservation and emission reduction.
(10) Perfect the price mechanism in the field of transportation. Perfect the price formation mechanism in railways, highways, ports, civil aviation and other fields, and establish and improve a unified, open and transparent price system. Strengthen price monitoring and analysis in key areas such as international maritime transportation. Improve the mechanism for the government to purchase public transportation services. Conduct fair competition review of relevant rules and regulations in the field of transportation, such as inviting tenders to bid, government procurement, business behavior norms, and qualification standards, in accordance with relevant provisions, and maintain a fair competition market order.
(11) Break down regional barriers and market segmentation. Clean up and abolish various regulations and practices that impede the construction of a unified transportation market and fair competition. Dynamically publish a list of problems with improper intervention in the construction of a unified and open transportation market. Promote the improvement of the interview system, and timely correct the policy measures for eliminating and restricting competition in the construction of the transportation market.
(12) Treat all kinds of business entities equally according to the law. Improve policies and systems to support the development of private enterprises, small and medium-sized micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the field of transportation, and treat all kinds of ownership enterprises equally according to the law in terms of factor acquisition, access permits, business operation, government procurement and inviting tenders to bid; Encourage Financial Institution Groups to ensure the credit needs of private enterprises, small and medium-sized micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in accordance with the principle of market-oriented rule of law. Establish standardized and institutionalized communication channels between government and enterprises to maintain the continuity and stability of enterprise-related policies in the field of transportation.
(13) Deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises in the field of transportation. Accelerate the improvement of the modern enterprise system of state-owned enterprises in railways and other fields. Study and formulate a catalogue list of public welfare services in railways, postal services and other fields, study and improve public welfare service standards, subsidies and other rules, and speed up the classified accounting and assessment of state-owned enterprises in railways, postal services and other fields. The institutions that perform the duties of investors will work with relevant departments to improve the operating performance appraisal of state-owned enterprises in railways, postal services and other fields and the salary management system of the leadership team. Promote the separation of postal universal service business and competitive business.
IV. Optimizing the allocation of transportation market elements
(14) Optimize the allocation of land and airspace resources. Strengthen the coordination of departmental and local work, and strengthen the guarantee of resources such as land, sea, and energy for major transportation projects in accordance with regulations. Optimize the functional positioning of adjacent facilities such as railway stations, highway stations, ports, airports, and urban public transportation stations, and promote the spatial integration, co-construction and sharing of transportation infrastructure and energy and other infrastructure as a whole. Strengthen the sharing and sharing of expressway facilities among transportation, public security, emergency management, and meteorological departments. Expand the supply of airspace resources, and implement classified and refined management of airspace resources. Actively and steadily promote the differentiated, precise, and coordinated management of resources such as routes and times, and scientifically and rationally increase the allocation and use of temporary routes.
(15) Enhance the ability to guarantee funds. Implement relevant fiscal and taxation policies to promote the development of transportation. Deepen the reform of transportation investment and financing, improve the financial policies and management rights and responsibilities in the fields of railways, postal services, and urban public transportation, and improve the financial investment mechanism at all levels for highway maintenance management, water transportation construction and maintenance, and general aviation construction and development. Encourage all kinds of Financial Institution Groups and social capital to participate in the financing of transportation infrastructure buildings in accordance with laws and regulations. Support qualified transportation projects to issue real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the field of infrastructure, and study long-term financing tools to support the development of transportation. Encourage social capital to set up industrial investment funds such as multimodal transportation and green and low-carbon development of transportation in accordance with the principle of market-oriented
(16) Advance data and technology to empower the development of transportation. Relying on the collaborative innovation system layout of the national integrated big data center, build a comprehensive transportation big data center system. Accelerate the construction of the national comprehensive transportation information platform. Relying on the national integrated government affairs big data system, promote the sharing and exchange of comprehensive transportation government data among regions, departments, ministries and provinces, strengthen the application of data analytics, and deepen the comprehensive development and intelligent application of data resources. Improve the standards and specifications for data collection, exchange, processing, and sharing of various transportation methods, promote the classification and classification of data management, and compile an important data catalog for the industry. Establish and improve the whole process data security management system, strengthen the transportation system platform cyber security, data security and personal information protection management, regularly carry out security investigation and threat and risk assessment. Improve the transportation science and technology resource sharing service system.
V. Perfect the transportation market supervision mechanism
(17) Improve the supervision rules of the transportation market. Improve the market supervision procedures in the transportation field, strengthen the standardization and standardization of market supervision, make public the supervision standards and rules in accordance with the law, and promote the fairness and unity of market supervision. Focusing on urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, strengthen cross-regional supervision cooperation, and encourage cross-regional joint issuance of unified transportation supervision policies, regulations and standards in accordance with regulations. Give full play to the role of industry associations and chambers of commerce, and strengthen the self-discipline of industries and enterprises. Improve the supervision system and business service norms for new transportation formats, and promote the integrated development of new and old formats.
(18) Improve the comprehensive law enforcement system and mechanism. Strengthen the professional construction of law enforcement teams in the field of transportation, improve the cross-departmental joint law enforcement mechanism, promote the efficient connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, comprehensively and strictly implement the administrative law enforcement publicity, the whole process of law enforcement records, and the legal review system for major law enforcement decisions, and standardize administrative discretion. Continue to carry out joint law enforcement by transportation and public security departments to control the overloading and overloading of freight vehicles, unify law enforcement processes and standards, and improve the standardization level of law enforcement.
(19) Strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition. Strengthen the assessment of market competition in the field of transportation, investigate and punish monopolies and unfair competition in accordance with the law, and prevent the use of data, algorithms, technologies and other means to eliminate and restrict competition and infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of employees. Carry out cross-departmental coordinated supervision and services in the platform economy fields such as online taxi booking and online road freight transportation in accordance with the law. Strengthen the centralized review of operators of new transportation formats in accordance with the law.
(20) To comprehensively enhance the supervision capacity of the transportation market. Strengthen the supervision of the whole chain and all fields, and strengthen the connection and cooperation of various supervision methods. Establish and improve the implementation norms and handling guidelines for transportation administrative licensing matters, improve the electronic license standard system, promote the sharing of industry electronic license information across departments and mutual recognition and mutual trust, and promote the expansion and efficiency of transportation government services. Establish and improve the list of entities seriously dishonest in the transportation field.
(21) Safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and employees. Strengthen the protection of consumer rights and interests in the field of transportation, strengthen the analysis of consumer complaint information, and dynamically study and judge the market environment and consumption environment. Optimize the multi-resolution mechanism for consumer disputes, and continuously improve the efficiency of the online consumer dispute resolution mechanism. Improve the working environment and working conditions in the field of transportation, standardize the operation and employment behavior of enterprises, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of trucks, ships, taxis, buses and other drivers and passengers and couriers in accordance with the law.
VI. Strengthening organizational implementation
All regions and relevant departments should implement the Party's leadership to accelerate the whole process of building a unified and open transportation market in all fields, abide by integrity and innovation, take responsibility, strengthen coordination, and implement these opinions in light of actual conditions. In combination with regional coordinated development strategies and the implementation of major regional strategies, regions with conditions are encouraged to carry out pilot construction of regional transportation market integration under the premise of maintaining the unified and open national transportation market. Timely sort out and summarize, copy and promote typical experiences and practices, study and form a unified and open transportation market index, and promote the construction of a unified and open transportation market across the country. The Ministry of Transport should work with relevant departments to increase overall planning and coordination, carry out follow-up evaluation and work guidance, and advance reforms in related fields in a stable and orderly manner. Do a good job in policy publicity and interpretation, and create a good social atmosphere for accelerating the construction of a unified and open transportation market. Substantial matters shall be reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council in a timely manner and in accordance with the procedures.
