On the evening of January 5, 1000 commercial vehicles arrived fromtheupstreamcity ofChongqing and loaded at Maoping Portof Zigui Countyon the dam. They arrived in Baiyang Port by trucksand waited to beloadedagainand transported to Wuhan. This again marks the beginning ofcommercial vehicles crossingdamin the form of "waterway-highway-waterway"in 2020 andalso marks the continuous acceleration of the operation ofcrossing transportation systemofthe Three Gorges Dam.

　　"Grasping infrastructure construction and promoting port logistics operationsis an important measure for us to speed up thecrossing transportation system of theThree Gorges Dam" Deng Jun,chairman of Yichang Construction Investment Group, introduced thatsincethelarge diversion and small transfer project ofYangtze River Three Gorges Hub declared by Yichang Construction Investment in 2018 was selected into the national multimodal transport demonstration project, while continuing to promote the construction of port facilities, a number of logistics transportation lines have been opened. Last year, a total of 12.393 million tons of goods chosecrossthe dam.

　　The reason why more and moregoods choose to go over the dam is that Yichang Construction InvestmentGrouprelyingon the completed Baiyang Port, Maoping Port and the existing high-speed and railwayslauched"waterway-highway-waterway"commercial vehicles and theemergency transfer service of trucks and containers over the damin March and June of last yearandpromoted the "grain transported from north to south to the west" multimodal transport lineby river, sea and railway of"Yingkou City, Liaoning Province-Yichang City, Hubei Province-Chengdu City, Sichuan Province" andpromoted the"grain-fertilizer swap" business modeloperated normally.It has become an important transportation channel for bulk commoditieswhichhas transferred 1.22 million tons of grains, andmade107,000 commercial vehicles and 83,200 TEU containerscross the Dam by waterway-highway, waterway-railway, waterway-waterway and waterway-highway-waterway.

　　"In addition to makingimprovementson transportation, we are constantly seeking innovation inoperations." Yin Jun, general manager of Yichang Construction Investment Group, said that last year, among the 1.872 million tons of goods in Baiyang Port's inventory, there was a large amount of trade grain. To this end, Yichang Construction Investmentcooperatedwith COFCO, will sell trade grains stored in ports or in transitbyelectronic bidding through the National Grain Exchange Center. The annual grain transaction volume reached 370,000 tons, with a transaction value of 733 million yuan.

　　“As the Three Gorges Shiplock ’s freight volume in 2019 reaches 146 million tons, exceeding the historical record of 142 million tons in 2018, a newhighestrecord. The more robust demand for dam crossings has led to the need to continue the construction andaccelerate theoperation of the Three Gorges Dam transportation system. "Yang Dan, chairman of the Three Gorges Logistics Company affiliated to Yichang Construction Investment, said thattheywill actively connect ChongqingGuoyuanPort, Wuhan Yangluo Port, and ShanghaiYangshanPort, actively integrate into the construction of new land and sea corridors in the west, accelerate the improvement of the multimodal transport system of the Three Gorges Hub, andacceleratethe construction of Yichang Port-type National Logistics Hub.

　　To be specific, Yichang Construction Investment continued to take Yichang as the only city in the central region selected as a port-type national logistics hub as an opportunity to accelerate the construction of infrastructures such as the Shugang Railway,port terminals, logistics parks, oil and gas pipelines, and to build Jiangnan and Jiangbei damcrossing high-speed highway, the Three Gorges damcrossingtransportation with the main contents of “two roads, two ports, two railways and one pipe” such as Maoshang Port on the dam, Baiyang Port under the dam, Maoping, Baiyang Shugang Railway, and Jiangnan Product Oil Turnover Pipeline.The system provides a more comprehensive solution for the rapid passage of goods through the dam, and jointly builds a golden economic belt with smoother traffic.