In the context of accelerating economic recovery, transportation connectivity has become the focus of attention. On July 27, 2023, the Anhui Provincial Department of Transport released the latest data, in the first half of the year, Anhui Province completed a total of 700.7 billion yuan of transportation fixed asset investment, completing 56.0% of the annual planned tasks, an increase of 25.5%, a record high in the same period. Among them, the expressway investment showed a rapid growth trend, and the investment of 37.8 billion yuan was completed in the first half of the year, accounting for 54% of the investment in the first half of the year, an increase of 40.4%.

In addition to expressways, in the first half of the year, the province's general national and provincial trunk lines completed a total investment of 18.91 billion yuan, an increase of 25.8%; A total of 6.50 billion yuan has been invested in rural roads. A total investment of 1.75 billion yuan has been completed in civil aviation airports. The cumulative investment in road transport terminals was 1.50 billion yuan, up 94.1% year-on-year; A total of 3.30 billion yuan has been invested in water transport construction. Key words: infrastructure, infrastructure construction, domestic engineering news, planning investment

In terms of transport, road, water and civil aviation have fully recovered, and both passenger and freight have achieved substantial growth. From January to June, the province's road passenger transport grew rapidly, with 51 million road passengers and 5.44 billion passenger-kilometers of passenger turnover, an increase of 42.4% and 51.1% respectively. Waterway freight volume reached 720 million tons and cargo turnover reached 349.83 billion tonne-kilometers, up 5.8% and 6.0%, respectively. From January to June, the passenger throughput of airports in the province was 7.137 million, an increase of 100.7%. Completed the cargo throughput of 61,000 tons, an increase of 38.5%. Editor/Xu Shengpeng