Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 11. Question: The epidemic spreads in many places. How can transportation and logistics ensure smooth and smooth people’s livelihood?
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ye Haoming and Hu Rui
The smooth operation of transportation and logistics is related to the supply of key livelihood materials such as “vegetable baskets and rice bags” for the people, the supply of important production materials such as energy and raw materials, and the livelihood of the majority of truck drivers. On the 11th, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport responded to social hot issues such as how to ensure smooth access to people’s livelihood.
Let the truck run, let the logistics flow
Highway traffic is the “artery” that supports economic and social development, and trucks traveling from south to north are the key to ensuring the normal operation of the “artery”. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, many truck drivers have encountered difficulties in parking, nucleic acid testing, eating, and passing problems during transportation.
The driver needs to move, the truck needs to run, and the freight logistics can be connected. Regarding the problems encountered by truck drivers, Wang Tai, the relevant person in charge of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, gave solutions:
In response to the problem of difficult parking, in the highway service area, by optimizing the layout of parking spaces, setting up tidal parking spaces, etc., to reasonably increase the parking spaces of trucks, and at the same time, the frequency of security patrols is encrypted to prevent illegal acts such as stealing oil and goods to the greatest extent.
In response to the difficulty of nucleic acid testing, nucleic acid testing points have been set up encrypted in places such as expressway service areas and toll gate squares with high traffic flow, and areas with conditions are encouraged to provide free nucleic acid testing services.
In response to the problem of difficulty in eating, increase the reserve of materials in service areas, and encourage qualified service areas to provide cheap, abundant and delicious “love meal” takeaway packaging services.
In order to reduce the risk of spreading the virus, Wang Tai said that the Ministry of Transport will further optimize the on-site service of expressway toll stations, and at the same time guide the public to install and use ETC voluntarily, so as to reduce the use of transit media and cash payment as much as possible.
Effectively guarantee the supply of “vegetable baskets” for the masses, ensure that vehicles for the transportation of new crown vaccines are free and fast without stopping, and make every effort to ensure that vehicles for the transportation of energy, food and other key production and living materials have priority and convenient access, and focus on providing road services for electricity and coal transportation… One by one” The “green channel” is gradually opening up.
“If the truck driver encounters problems such as excessive epidemic prevention during transportation, please call 12345, 12328 and other hotlines in time, and the local government and its transportation departments will follow up and coordinate in time to solve the problem.” Wang Tai said.
Make every effort to ensure the smooth flow of logistics in key areas
At present, the epidemic situation is spreading in many places. The Yangtze River Delta region, which has key industrial clusters such as automobile manufacturing, biomedicine, and integrated circuits, is still facing severe epidemic situation.
“We will go all out to ensure the smooth flow of logistics in key regions such as the Yangtze River Delta,” said Li Guoping, safety director of the Ministry of Transport.
In key epidemic-related areas, the priority is to ensure a stable supply of living materials.
Li Guoping said that the Ministry of Transport has promoted the construction and opening of 6 emergency material transfer stations in Shanghai and surrounding areas. At the same time, it has implemented “one card registration, one card review, and one card pass” to achieve “quick inspection, rapid testing, and rapid passage”. Give full play to the important role of passes in the transportation of civilian materials.
A considerable part of the “white list” enterprises in the supply chain of key enterprises announced by the state are located in the Yangtze River Delta region. “For these companies included in the ‘white list’, we have adopted priority capacity support, priority testing services, priority loading and unloading, priority distribution and other services, and strive to ensure the stability of production and operation of key companies.” Li Guoping said.
Ensure the normal operation of key hubs and strengthen the coordination and linkage of the Yangtze River Delta region. According to Li Guoping, in response to the problem of poor collection and distribution at Pudong Airport, the Ministry of Transport will work with relevant units to carry out daily scheduling to increase the volume of cargo and mail transportation at Pudong Airport. “On May 10, the cargo and mail throughput of Pudong Airport was 5,938 tons, an increase of 133% from April 18.”
In addition to the Yangtze River Delta region, in response to the recent epidemic prevention and control situation in Beijing, Li Guoping said that at present, bus routes have been optimized and adjusted in time, some subway stations have been closed, free nucleic acid and antigen tests have been implemented for truck drivers entering Beijing, and 11 Tianjin and Hebei have been restarted. Nucleic acid testing point on Huanjing Expressway. “Plan in advance to reserve material transfer stations, and effectively ensure the supply of materials in the capital area.”
Solve the “last mile” and “last 100 meters” puzzles
The transportation “arteries” must be smooth, and the logistics microcirculation must be guaranteed. However, the current problem of “unsmooth ends” of distribution in some cities is still relatively prominent. Han Jinghua, the relevant person in charge of the Transportation Services Department of the Ministry of Transport, said that in order to speed up the smooth logistics microcirculation system, the Ministry of Transport has guided the epidemic-related areas and promoted the orderly resumption of work and production of postal express distribution centers, business outlets and employees that meet the requirements of epidemic prevention.
A series of targeted measures are being actively deployed:
Promoting the resumption of work – the closed postal express distribution centers, business outlets, express service stations, etc., will be unsealed in an orderly manner on the premise of meeting the epidemic prevention requirements and strictly implementing epidemic prevention and control measures; For the transit and distribution tasks of important production and living materials, priority will be given to unblocking; logistics and distribution practitioners who are quarantined at home should return to work as soon as possible on the premise of meeting local epidemic prevention requirements.
Ensuring operation – try to keep logistics distribution nodes out of the sealing and control area; do not shut down the logistics distribution nodes outside the sealing and control area, control area and prevention area without authorization; Those who stop being responsible for the transit of inter-provincial and inter-city production and living materials and express mail must be submitted to the provincial and municipal joint prevention and control mechanisms for approval according to the procedures.
Youtongxing – Announce the policies and measures for the passage of trucks within the jurisdiction in a timely manner, and shall not arbitrarily restrict the passage of logistics and distribution vehicles that meet the requirements; promote the establishment of a list of business circulation, logistics distribution and postal express companies responsible for urban supply guarantee tasks. Enterprises included in the list will be given priority to apply for a vehicle permit in the city.
Strong connection—Accelerate the construction and use of emergency material transfer stations, connection points and distribution sites, optimize transportation organization methods such as drop and hook, connection, and ensure the supply of various materials in the city.
“Actively leverage the professional strength and market resources of key logistics enterprises, and strive to solve the ‘last mile’ and ‘last 100 meters’ problems of logistics and distribution,” said Han Jinghua.