Discussions on Some Issues of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Transport of China

The last five years witnessed a significant development in China's transport industry. Its experiences and achievements will render an important basis and a threshold for the national transport plan of the next five years. This paper reviews the growth of the investment, the infrastructure development and the transport capacity and volume in China's transport in the Tenth Five-Year Plan period from 2001 to 2005. It analyzes the current development trends as well as its problems. From the perspective of transport demands, it illustrates the features of the government's Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Transport. The paper then proposes objectives of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Transport and describes the key areas of the country's transportation development and construction. Finally, the paper makes a preliminary study on the principles and policy orientations of stipulating the corresponding supporting measures for its transport development.