Infrastructure
Transportation saw a stable growth. The total annual freight traffic stood at 116 million tons (excluding road transportation), an increase of 4.3% over the previous year.
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Freight Traffic by All Means of Transportation and the Growth Rates in 2020 |
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Index |
Unit |
Absolute Number |
Growth over Last Year (%) |
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Railways |
10,000 tons |
1300.88 |
-1.3 |
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Waterways |
10,000 tons |
9821.02 |
5.5 |
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Civil aviation |
tons |
51.1 |
12.8 |
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Pipelines |
10,000 tons |
443.04 |
-5.1 |
The total annual passenger traffic volume neared 42.72 million trips, down by 53% over the previous year. The railway passenger flows down by 20% to over 10.94 million trips; the road passenger flows decreased by 59.3% to 31.18 million trips; waterway passenger flows shrank by 59.6% to 27,800 trips; and, passenger trips by civil aviation increased by 1.4% to 564,000 trips.
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Passenger Traffic by All Means of Transportation and the Growth Rates in 2020 |
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Index |
Unit |
Volume |
Y-O-Y Growth (%) |
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Total passenger traffic |
10,000 persons |
4271.70 |
-53.0 |
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Railways |
10,000 persons |
1094.49 |
-20.0 |
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Highways |
10,000 persons |
3118.02 |
-59.3 |
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Waterways |
10,000 persons |
2.78 |
-59.6 |
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Civil aviation |
10,000 persons |
56.40 |
1.4 |
The number of motor vehicles for civilian use in the city amounted to 711,300 by the end of 2020, growing by 10.1% over the same period of last year. The number of newly registered vehicles in 2020 decreased by 12.4% year on year to 64,600.
The total mileage of roads reached 20,600 km, including 487 km of expressway.
The post and telecommunications witnessed a relatively rapid growth. The turnover of postal services neared 2.5 billion yuan, up 33.8%, and telecommunication services exceeded 36.1 billion yuan, up 30.4%. By the end of 2020, there were 824,700 fixed-line telephone users, up 1%; 5.07 million mobile phone users, increasing by 1.2%; and, about 1.575 million broadband users, growing by 9.7%.
The total number of tourists was over 57.92 million in 2020, decreasing by 15.6%.
The tourism revenue totaled about 57.93
billion yuan, down 12.9%. A total of 19,900 inbound trips were received, shrinking
by 95.3%, and making a foreign exchange earnings
of 8.267 million US dollars, down 95.2%.
Chinese source: yueyang.gov.cn