60多年来，中国交通运输总体上经历了从“瓶颈制约”到“初步缓解”，再到“基本适应”经济社会发展需求的奋斗历程，与世界一流水平的差距快速缩小，部分领域已经实现超越，一个走向现代化的综合交通运输体系正展现在世界面前。

　　二、综合交通运输体系建设

　　经过多年改革发展，多节点、全覆盖的综合交通运输网络初步形成，“五纵五横”综合运输大通道基本贯通，一大批综合客运、货运枢纽站场（物流园区）投入运营，运输装备发展不断升级，运输服务水平显著提升，科技创新和应用实现重大突破，交通运输市场体系、管理体制和法规体系不断完善。

Over the past 60-odd years China's transport has undergone the phases of bottleneck, preliminary alleviation and basic adaptation to socio-economic development demands. China has narrowed its gap with world-class transport, and surpassed the latter in several fields. A modernized comprehensive transport system is now emerging on the horizon. 

II. Comprehensive Transport System

Through years of reform and development China has formed a multi-nodal and full-coverage transport network; opened up five vertical and five horizontal transport trunk railway lines; put into operation a large number of passenger and freight transport stations (logistics parks); upgraded transport equipment and improved transport service capacity; achieved major breakthroughs in technology innovation and application; and improved the transport market system, management mechanisms and related laws and regulations.

　　（一）基础设施网络

　　多层次的铁路网基本形成。截至2015年年底，全国铁路营业总里程达12.1万公里，规模居世界第二；其中高速铁路1.9万公里，位居世界第一。以高速铁路为骨架、以城际铁路为补充的快速客运网络初步建成。全国铁路复线率和电气化率分别达到53.5%和61.8%。横跨东西、纵贯南北的大能力通道逐步形成，物流设施同步完善，逐步实现了货物运输直达化、快捷化、重载化。

　　广覆盖的公路网建立起来。截至2015年年底，全国公路通车总里程达457.73万公里。高速公路通车里程达12.35万公里，位居世界第一。国省干线公路网络不断完善，连接了全国县级及以上行政区。农村公路里程达到398.06万公里，通达99.9%的乡镇和99.8%的建制村。路网技术结构不断优化，等级公路里程占公路总里程的88.4%。

1. Infrastructure Network

A multi-level railway network has been formed. By the end of 2015 China's total railway operation length reached 121,000 km, ranking the world's second, including 19,000-km high-speed railway, ranking the world's first. An express passenger transport network with high-speed railway as framework and supplemented by intercity railway has been built. The proportion of double-line railway in China was 53.5 percent, and the proportion of electric railway 61.8 percent. China has formed east-west and north-south railway passageways with great transport capacity, improved logistics infrastructure, and realized nonstop, speedy, and heavy-haul freight transport.

A full-coverage highway network has been set up. By the end of 2015, China' s total highway traffic length was 4.58 million km. Expressway length was 123,500 km, ranking first in the world. The national and provincial trunk highway network has been improved, connecting administrative regions at and above the county level nationwide. Rural highway length was 3.98 million km, connecting 99.9 percent of towns and townships and 99.8 percent of administrative villages. The technology structure of the highway network has been improved, with graded highway length accounting for 88.4 percent of total highway length.