BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's transportation industry expanded faster in November, an industry index showed.
The China Transportation Services Index (CTSI) stood at 178.8 points last month, up 5.6 percent year on year, according to the China Academy of Transportation Sciences.
The growth was 1.6 percentage points higher than that of October.
The index incorporated the transport volume of passengers and cargo of various transportation means such as railway, highway, waterway and civil aviation.
With 2010 as the base year and 100 points as the base points, the CTSI includes passenger transport and cargo transport as two sub-indexes.
The index for passenger transport rose 2.3 percent year on year last month, while that for cargo transport gained 7.4 percent, both picking up from October's performances.
