Recently, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the General Administration of Customs, the National Railway Administration, and the National Railway Group jointly issued the Action Plan for Promoting the High-quality Development of Ironwater Intermodal Transport (2023-2025), focusing on improving the level of facility connectivity and improving the level of unimpeded intermodal transport. A total of 13 tasks in 4 aspects, accelerate the adjustment and optimization of transportation structure, and promote the green and low-carbon development of transportation.

Optimizing and adjusting the transportation structure is a key task to accelerate the construction of a powerful transportation country and build a modern comprehensive transportation system. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that the adjustment and optimization of transportation structure should be accelerated. At present, multimodal transport represented by molten iron transport has become an important breakthrough in the adjustment of China's transportation structure. With the increasing policy support, multimodal transport has entered the fast lane of high-quality development.