In a logistics park in Beijing, truck driver Lao Zhang came across this news on his phone. He pays special attention to one sentence: the basic construction of the national highway network. He, who has been running transportation for twenty years, witnessed firsthand the process of highways from scratch and from lines to networks. If the road network were denser and dead end roads were opened up, our sports cars could save a lot of time. Lao Zhang's expectations are exactly the promises that the 15th Five Year Plan will fulfill.

The outline of the 15th Five Year Plan clearly states that the national expressway network will be basically completed by the end of the 15th Five Year Plan period. We will focus on constructing the main, parallel, and connecting lines of national highways such as Beijing Harbin, Beijing Hong Kong Macau, Shenhai, Changshen, and Lanhai, as well as highways from Kuitun to Kuche via Dushanzi. 

At the same time, we will promote the improvement of safety and resilience of key sections of existing national highways such as Beijing Kunming, Beijing Taiwan, Shanghai Chengdu, Lianhuo, Xiamen Chengdu, Baotou Maotai, Yinkun, and Hangzhou Ruitai. At the same time, the plan proposes to promote the upgrading and transformation of ordinary national and provincial roads, comprehensively connect the strategic backbone channels of National Highway 219 and National Highway 331 along the border, construct parallel lines of border roads, border port connection lines, etc., promote the construction of the coastal backbone channel of National Highway 228, improve and transform the backbone channels of National Highway 109, National Highway 317, National Highway 318, etc. for entering and leaving Xinjiang and Tibet, and strengthen the coverage and accessibility guarantee of weak areas. Keywords: Strategic News Network, Highway Network Infrastructure

During the 15th Five Year Plan period, we will also promote the upgrading of high-grade inland waterways, basically build world-class port and airport clusters, deepen the reform of the comprehensive transportation system, promote the reform of the railway system and the optimization of toll road policies, while promoting the digital upgrading of transportation infrastructure, accelerating the low-carbon substitution of transportation power, and building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone.Editor/Gao Xue