In the first five months of this year, my country's transportation fixed asset investment maintained rapid growth, a number of major transportation projects continued to refresh their progress, and the construction of a modern and high-quality national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network was accelerated to expand domestic demand, stabilize growth, and benefit the people. provide strong support.
On July 2, the Liujiashan Tunnel, the controlling project of the Chongqing-Qianjiang Railway, was completed, and 80% of the main project of the Chongqing-Qianjiang Railway was completed.
Right now, in the western region alone, several main railway lines such as Yukun, Xiyu, and Xinyuwan are accelerating simultaneously, and Guinan, Fuxia and other high-speed railways will be put into operation within this year. According to data from the China National Railway Group, from January to May, the country's railways completed a fixed asset investment of 206.1 billion yuan, an increase of 7% over the same period of the previous year.
While the railway network is getting denser and denser, a number of key highway projects are being implemented at an accelerated pace, focusing on the construction of supplementary link sections of national expressways and the expansion and reconstruction of heavy traffic sections. Among them, the Jingxiong Expressway is planned to be fully opened to traffic within this year, and the longest expressway tunnel in the world - Wuwei Expressway Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, more than half of the double main tunnels have been excavated.
At the same time, a number of transportation infrastructures are constantly improving in terms of intelligence and greenness. The Changtai Yangtze River Bridge, the world's largest span road-rail cable-stayed bridge under construction, will realize the intelligent coordinated operation of "people-vehicle-road-environment-information" after opening to traffic. Qinzhou Port Phase II automated container terminal can realize remote automated loading and unloading operations in the future.
From January to May this year, my country completed investment in transportation fixed assets of 1.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.7%. Among them, the completed road investment was 1.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%; the completed water transportation investment was 73.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.3%.