CCTV News: The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport that this year, the Ministry of Transport will implement a new round of rural road improvement actions to accelerate the improvement of the modern rural transportation system.
This year, my country will coordinate the county-level urban and rural planning layout and give full play to the benefits of construction funds. This year, it is planned to renovate 100,000 kilometers of rural roads, add 250 townships with third-level and above grade highways, and add 12,000 natural villages and groups with a larger population of hardened roads. 3,000 dangerous old rural road bridges were renovated and 100,000 kilometers of restorative maintenance projects were implemented.
In addition, this year, the Ministry of Transport will promote the digital transformation of rural roads, carry out the information construction of rural roads "one road and one file" and promote the automated testing of rural road conditions. In the field of transportation infrastructure construction and management and maintenance, the efforts to promote labor-for-relief, further expand the scope of implementation and beneficiaries, and stabilize the number of jobs in rural road management and maintenance at 850,000.
Deputy Director of the Rural Highway Department of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport Chen Wenliang: This year we will accurately promote the construction and transformation of rural roads, promote the opening of external fast channels for major economic nodes such as townships, and implement the transformation of old roads and the widening and transformation of over-narrow rural roads according to local conditions. Vigorously develop the "rural road +" model, accelerate the construction of rural industrial roads, tourism roads, and resource roads, and further deepen the integrated development of transportation, tourism, and transportation.
