my country's highway network has connected about 95%of the country's population

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 25 (Reporter Ye Haoming) Wang Tai, deputy director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said on the 25th that the highway network with the national highway as the main body has covered 98.8%of the urban population of more than 200,000 cities and prefectures. The level administrative center connects about 88%of the county -level administrative regions and about 95%of the population in the country; ordinary national roads basically cover the county -level and above administrative regions and the border ports that are opened all year round.

Wang Tai made the above statement at the special conference held by the Ministry of Transport on the day.

From the data point of view, as of the end of 2021, my country's national highway has been completed 117,000 kilometers, and the mileage of ordinary national highway is 257,700 kilometers. It accounted for 79.6%; more than 98%of the roads were paved with asphalt or cement concrete.

The National Highway Network Plan (2013-2030) introduced in 2013 proposed that by 2030, the total scale of my country's national highway network is about 400,000 kilometers. Among them 265,000 kilometers. Wang Tai introduced that the current completion of the national highway and ordinary national highway construction has reached 85%and 96.5%, respectively. The National Highway Network Plan issued this year proposes that by 2035, the total scale of my country's national highway network will be about 461,000 kilometers, of which The national highway is about 162,000 kilometers and the ordinary national highway is about 299,000 kilometers.

In order to promote the construction of a modern and high -quality national highway network, Wang Tai said that it will focus on the construction and implementation of the corresponding key engineering projects in the provincial provincial provincial provincial -to -road section, bottleneck section, and connecting transportation hubs, and land border port highways. Common channels, hub connections, co -construction sharing and other methods to improve comprehensive traffic efficiency and convenience, and flexibly and reasonably adopt highway through urban technical standards to promote the construction of integrated urban agglomeration network system.

When it comes to improving the green intelligence of highway construction, Wang Tai said that it will use green highway construction as a carrier, adhere to intensive use of resources and protect the ecological environment along the line, effectively reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. At the same time Improve the level of digitalization and networking of national highways.

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