In the first four months of the current year, fixed asset investments in railways, roads and waterways in China amounted to RMB 493.0 billion ($79.5 billion), up 15.1 percent year on year, with this growth rate 8.5 percentage points higher than in the first four months last year, as announced by China's Ministry of Transportation (MOT).
In the first four months this year, China's railways, roads and waterways carried 7.31 billion passengers, up 0.8 percent year on year.
Meanwhile, in the first four months this year, China's railways, roads and waterways transported 13.21 billion mt of goods, up 4.1 percent year on year.