[Transportation fixed asset investment reached 729 billion in the first 4 months]The Ministry of Transport released the relevant data of the transportation industry in the first 4 months. Data show that in the first four months, the investment in fixed assets of highway and waterway transportation in my country was 729.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%, of which road investment was 686.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%. Editor / Xu Shengpeng
From January to June 2026, the throughput of the Three Gorges Dam reached 76.642 million tons. Among them, 22.0467 million tons of livelihood materials and 699500 tons of key emergency transportation materials were guaranteed to pass through the dam. In the first half of this year, the Three Gorges Ship Lock operated 4527 locks, with 17000 ships passing through and a throughput of 74.325 million tons; The Three Gorges ship lift operated a total of 2129 carriages, transported 328000 passengers through 2156 ships, and the number of passengers transported increased by 13.6% year-on-year. Editor/Cheng Liting
Recently, the key implementation project of the 14th Five Year Plan for pumped storage in China, the Inner Mongolia Meidai Pumped Storage Power Station project, started construction in Tuyou Banner. The total investment of the project is 8.2 billion yuan, with a total installed capacity of 1.2 million kilowatts. It is equipped with four single unit 300000 kilowatt reversible water pump turbine generators, and the first unit is planned to be put into operation and generate electricity in 2032. The power station can operate at full capacity for up to 6 hours, with a designed annual power generation of 1.526 billion kilowatt hours, and can consume 2.6 billion kilowatt hours of new energy such as wind power and photovoltaics annually. Editor/Cheng Liting