In the first seven months of 2026, the resilience of the national transportation economy will be highlighted, with multi-dimensional coordination and improvement in freight circulation, port foreign trade, personnel travel, and infrastructure investment, laying a solid foundation for domestic industrial circulation and smooth cross-border trade.

The core indicators of the release of foreign trade momentum in ports are steadily rising

From January to July, the national commercial freight volume reached 32.97 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.8%, and the domestic logistics cycle remained stable. The national ports have completed a cargo throughput of 10.56 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.3%. Among them, the foreign trade throughput increased by 3.6% year-on-year, and the container throughput reached 210 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%, leading all core transportation indicators in terms of growth rate.

The layout of domestic and foreign trade routes continues to increase. Yantai Port has opened four new African routes, covering hub nodes such as Algeria and Dakar, with over 200 export categories. This year, the shipment volume has exceeded 6 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 66.1%. Nanjing Port has added three new foreign trade routes covering South America, South Asia, and North America. Domestic engineering equipment and vehicles can be transported directly from inland ports to overseas, further improving the efficiency of cross-border logistics channels.

Personnel mobility remains active, infrastructure investment provides strong support

Driven by multiple holidays, the cross regional personnel flow in China reached 39.79 billion in the first seven months, a year-on-year increase of 0.8%. Among them, the high-speed rail passenger volume increased by 9.4% year-on-year, and the activity of personnel exchanges remained within a reasonable range.

Fixed assets investment in transportation remained at a high level. From January to July, a total of 1815.2 billion yuan was completed, including 1201.1 billion yuan for highway and 125.5 billion yuan for water transportation. Major projects such as the Three Gorges Water Transport New Channel, Xinjiang Duku Expressway, and Dalian Jinzhou Bay International Airport Comprehensive Transportation Hub are being accelerated to continuously fill the gaps in the comprehensive transportation network.

Overall, in the first seven months, the supply and demand sides of the transportation sector have been working together, not only through expanding foreign trade routes to open up the micro circulation of cross-border trade, but also through continuous infrastructure investment to solidify the long-term circulation foundation, providing strong support for industry going global and regional economic linkage.Editor/Cheng Liting