本刊讯交通部于9月5日召开了全国电话会议,号召开展轰轰烈烈的短途运输群众运动。国务院副总理薄一波在会上讲了话。他祥细地报告了党的八届八中全会发出号召以后,各地各厂矿反右倾、鼓干劲、大力开展增产节约运动所取得的新成就。他说,全国的运输工作也象其他部门一样有了很大的跃进,但是还不能满足工农业生产日益增长的需要,而短途运输更是当前整个工农业生产发展中最薄弱的一个环节。现在有许多国民经济急需的物资积压在生产地区运 The newsletter of the Ministry of Communications held a national conference call on September 5, calling for a vigorous mass movement of short-distance transport. Vice Premier Bo Yibo waved at the meeting. After careful reporting of the plenum of the Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party, all the factories around the country took the anti-rightist leaps and hardships and vigorously carried out the new achievements made in the campaign to increase output and save energy. He said that transportation work across the country has made great leaps forward like other departments but it still can not meet the growing needs of industrial and agricultural production. Short-distance transportation is now the weakest link in the development of agriculture and industry as a whole. There is now much backlog of supplies urgently needed by the national economy in the production areas