This documents provides the briefing and English translation of the the five-year Work Plan for Promoting the Development of Multimodal Transport and Optimizing and Adjusting the Transport Structure (2021-2025), which was issued by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China on 7 January 2022.
According to the goals set out in the Work Plan, by 2025, the level of development of China’s multimodal transport1 will be significantly improved. A transport composition, in which railways and waterways dominate the medium- and long-distance transport of bulk cargo and containers, will be basically established, with national rail and waterway freight volumes increasing by about 10% and 12% respectively compared with 2020. Container rail-water multimodal transport volumes will be increasing annually by more than 15% on average.
