BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- China's urban passenger transport registered steady growth in 2019, seeing an increase in passenger traffic and length of operation, data from the Ministry of Transport (MOT) showed.
The annual urban passenger traffic stood at 127.92 billion people last year, up 1.3 percent year on year, according to an annual report on transport released by the MOT.
In breakdown, 69.18 billion people used bus and trolleybus services in 2019, down 0.8 percent year on year.
The passenger volume of urban rail transit rose 12.2 percent to 23.88 billion people, accounting for 18.7 percent of all urban transport passengers, up 1.8 percentage points from 2018.
By the end of 2019, the length of bus and trolleybus lines reached 1.34 million km, 137,000 km longer than one year earlier, while that of urban rail traffic increased by 877.1 km to 6,172.2 km, MOT data showed.
Urban transport also became more environmentally friendly last year, with the proportion of green energy vehicles among urban buses and trolleybuses up 5.3 percentage points to 80.6 percent at the end of last year. Enditem
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