CCTV News: The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport that in 2025, the Ministry of Transport will implement a new round of rural road improvement actions to accelerate the improvement of the modern rural transportation system.

In 2025, my country will coordinate the county-level urban and rural planning layout and give full play to the benefits of construction funds. In 2025, 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, in 2025, 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, we will further expand the scope of implementation and beneficiaries, and stabilize the number of jobs in the field of rural road management and maintenance at 850,000.

Chen Wenliang, deputy director of the Rural Highway Department of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, introduced that in 2025, rural road construction and renovation will be accurately promoted, and the opening of external fast channels for major economic nodes such as townships, and the renovation of old roads and the widening and renovation of over-narrow rural roads will be implemented according to local conditions. At the same time, 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. Empowering technology, the speed of rural road management and maintenance is faster and more "smart".

In the new round of rural road improvement actions in 2025, the Ministry of Transport will also promote the digital transformation of rural roads, especially the maintenance process of highways. In Sichuan Province, which has the largest rural road network in the country, more than 60% of counties, cities and districts have digital management platforms, which will realize the supervision of the entire process of rural road planning, construction and maintenance.

In the past few days, in Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province, a 12-kilometer rural road is being paved, connecting the vegetable garden with an annual output of 1.5 million tons.

While the rural road construction context continues to extend, drone patrol has also made the intelligent maintenance of rural roads "fly" a new track. Shunjiang Road, Tongji Town, Pengzhou, 36 kilometers away, is a tourist highway. Every weekend, there are more than 10,000 vehicles passing through Shunjiang Road in one-way. In order to dynamically track road surface conditions, a medium-sized industrial-grade drone equipped with high-precision cameras and multiple sensors is patrolling the road surface diseases.

In addition to improving the efficiency of road management and maintenance, technologies such as big data and the Internet of Things also protect safe travel. In Zhongshan Town, Hongya County, Meishan, Sichuan, sensing equipment is installed on the corrugated guardrails of the roads along the way, which can collect a variety of information in real time and establish a rural road data module. Once an abnormal situation occurs, the system will promptly report the information to the cloud platform management center to prevent secondary road accidents.

Li Juntao, deputy director of the Highway Bureau of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Transportation, introduced that in 2025, we will also vigorously promote big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to empower rural road management and maintenance, and realize active prevention and control of safety risks in key sections and important nodes, so as to open up bottlenecks and bottlenecks between agricultural product production bases, logistics and warehousing nodes, and transportation backbone channels, and promote rural logistics costs, improve quality and efficiency. Rural roads leverage vitality and pave the "fast lane" of rural revitalization

Rural roads connecting urban and rural areas not only make travel more convenient, but also stimulate new consumption vitality. As a national demonstration county for the "Four Good Rural Roads", Lanshan County, Yongzhou, Hunan Province, while accelerating the renovation and expansion of rural roads, it also connects with national and provincial trunk lines, opening up a fast channel for rural revitalization and farmers to get rich, and driving the development of rural tourism and industrial economy along the route.

In Xiangjiangyuan Road in Lanshan County, Yongzhou, Hunan, the newly renovated rural road connects multiple scenic spots such as Xiangjiangyuan Yao Township and Lanshan Valley, attracting many tourists to drive themselves.

Relying on this rural road, Pingyuan Village, Yao Ethnic Township, Xiangjiangyuan has developed an ecological tourism industry, which not only drives the development of farmhouses and homestays, but also allows local specialty agricultural products to be quickly transported to the whole country.

In the first quarter of 2025, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province has invested about 270 million yuan to complete the quality improvement and transformation of rural roads, of which more than 31 kilometers of tourist road construction have been completed.

Deng Yangzhong, director of Yongzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau, introduced that in 2025, 270 kilometers of rural road quality improvement and transformation will be implemented, and the deep integration of "transportation + industry" and "transportation + tourism" will be promoted, so that rural roads will become a "happy road" for weaving convenient travel for the people and the "leading road" for helping rural industrial revitalization.