, China News Service, December 21. At a press conference held by the Ministry of Transport on the 21st, Sun Yonghong, deputy director of the Highway Bureau, made it clear that in the future, they can only build new highways toll roads, and no new toll first-class highways, second-class highways and independent bridges and tunnels. The existing toll first-class highways, second-class highways and independent bridges and tunnels will gradually and orderly stop tolls as the toll period expires or the government repurchases in advance.
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The Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference in December today. At the meeting, a reporter asked, will only allow new highway toll roads be built in the future? The country has already collected vehicle purchase tax and refined oil consumption tax, so why should vehicle tolls be charged? Now the "Regulations" amendment proposes to establish a highway maintenance toll system?
Regarding the threshold for the construction of toll roads, Sun Yonghong responded that the current "Regulations" stipulate that highways, first-class highways, second-class highways and independent bridges and tunnels can all be built using the toll road policy and through government debt or attracting investment in social capital. In order to further control the scale of toll roads, improve the basic public service capacity and level of road networks, and reduce the cost of crossing bridges, the revised draft clearly states that in the future, we can only build new highways toll roads, and no new toll first-class highways, second-class highways, independent bridges and tunnels will no longer be built. The existing toll first-class highways, second-class highways, independent bridges and tunnels will gradually and orderly stop tolls as the toll period expires or the government repurchases in advance.
Sun Yonghong said that regarding the issues of "tax collection" and "tolling", the main sources of funds for domestic highway development currently include vehicle purchase tax, refined oil consumption tax and vehicle tolls. Among them, vehicle purchase tax is mainly used for road construction, refined oil consumption tax is mainly used for non-toll road maintenance and management, and vehicle tolls are mainly used for toll road maintenance and management, debt repayment, and social capital investment recovery.
In addition, if the funds for highway construction maintenance management and maintenance are not "fees", they must be "cashed". Taxes are borne by the whole people. Taxes must be paid if they use the road or not. The fees are borne by the road. Whoever uses the road will pay the fees. If they don't use the road, they will pay the fees. If they don't use the road, they will pay the fees. It is more fair and reasonable. Tolls not only provide financial guarantees for the development of highways, allowing the public to enjoy high-level highway access services in advance, but also enables limited public fiscal revenue of to be concentrated on ordinary roads, so that the traffic conditions of ordinary roads can be better improved.
Sun Yonghong mentioned that regarding the issue of highway maintenance and management toll fees, as an important infrastructure, the maintenance, operation and management of highways require continuous capital investment. At present, the maintenance and management funds for toll roads are solved from tolls, with an average good road condition rate of 99.6%; the maintenance and management funds for non-toll roads are resolved through the consumption tax on refined oil, and there has always been a large gap, resulting in the road conditions of ordinary roads far lower than those of expressways.
In the reality that the consumption tax on refined oil cannot meet the needs of ordinary public maintenance funds, it is unable to ensure the maintenance management needs of highways after the tolls are stopped. According to the current "Regulations", if the expressway stops tolls when it expires, it will fall into the dilemma of "no money to maintain". It will not only fail to ensure efficient, safe and fast traffic services, but will also reduce the road conditions, damage the achievements of highway development and reduce the people's sense of gain.
Sun Yonghong pointed out that in order to solve this problem and ensure that highways can provide sustainable highways with highways, the revised draft clearly states that if all government toll highway debts within the administrative area of the people's government of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be re-evaluated in accordance with the principles of meeting basic maintenance and management expenditure needs and ensuring traffic efficiency, maintenance management fees shall be implemented, maintenance management fees shall be ensured, and maintenance management funds shall be required, and the road network shall be operated smoothly.
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