2019年CRI China sees great progress in transportation industry

 

With the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China coming up in October, officials have pointed¹ to the great progress China's transportation industry has made over the past 7 decades, especially during the 40 years of China's reform and opening up.

The number 1 bus line on Beijing's Chang'an Avenue was one of the first bus routes to be established in the city after the founding of New China.

Chang Hongxia is the head of the group of bus drivers who work on route number 1.

"In the past, China's buses were dependent on foreign imports and truck modifications². Our bus lines only ran through the center of Beijing. But now, we have our own domestic buses that can run through the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and even in villages in the mountainous regions. We used to pay for our bus tickets using paper tickets and IC cards, but now we can simply use our phones to scan to buy a ticket."

Compared with urban transportation, rural transportation has experienced even bigger changes.

Zeng Yun is a road maintenance worker in Jiang'an County in Sichuan Province.

"The roads at that time were mostly mud. People usually walked to work. We seldom saw people bike to work. Road maintenance work was very difficult, because the maintenance workers can only transfer heavy materials on their shoulders. With China's reform and opening up and the growing economy, we re-built the roads, and turned them into cement and asphalt roads. After these roads were fixed³, the maintenance work became much easier."

Zeng Yun said that around 300 kilometers of new roads are constructed in Jiang'an County every year.

There are now bus services in 85 percent of the villages in the county, and the new roads make it even easier for local residents to travel.

China's water transportation has also developed very rapidly.

Jiang Long is the captain of Sea Patrol Number 1, which is China's biggest and most advanced maritime⁴ ship. It's been responsible for carrying out a lot of rescue missions.

"China wasn't able to build a 10,000-ton freighter until 1960. But now the biggest freighter in the world was made in China. It can ship over 21,000 TEU containers around the world. In the early days after the founding of New China, fewer than 10 patrol boats were qualified⁵ to perform safety supervision⁶. Now the number is around 900."

Official stats show that by the end of 2018, the total railway operation mileage⁷ reached 131,000 kilometers in China, five times higher than 1949, while the high-speed railway exceeded 29,000 kilometers, accounting⁸ for more than 60 percent of the world's total.

The total length of highways reached nearly 4.9 million kilometers, 59 times as much as the country had in 1949.

Inland waterways have expanded to 127,000 kilometers in mileage, while civil aviation flight routes surged over 700 times from 1950, to over 8 million kilometers in 2018.

The country also boasts 235 civil airports.

1 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

2 modifications   

n.缓和( modification的名词复数 )；限制；更改；改变

参考例句：

• The engine was pulled apart for modifications and then reassembled. 发动机被拆开改型，然后再组装起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The original plan had undergone fairly extensive modifications. 原计划已经作了相当大的修改。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

4 maritime   

adj.海的，海事的，航海的，近海的，沿海的

参考例句：

• Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
• The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。

5 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

6 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

7 mileage   

n.里程，英里数；好处，利润

参考例句：

• He doesn't think there's any mileage in that type of advertising.他认为做那种广告毫无效益。
• What mileage has your car done?你的汽车跑了多少英里？

8 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。