Official clarification: Rural roads will undergo major upgrades, focusing on the implementation of five major tasks! Every village benefits

“If you want to get rich, build roads first”, this slogan has appeared on the walls of countless village streets, reflecting the past farmers’ eagerness to build roads.

The author also has deep feelings about road construction. When I was a child, there was no hardened road in the village. On rainy days, the village was basically "isolated" because the road was too muddy. If I wanted to leave the village, I just had to leave. You can walk or drive a tractor, but cars from the city cannot pass.

Fortunately, the village began to build asphalt roads, and a few years later cement roads were built, which greatly helped the development of the village and the daily life of the villagers.

In recent years, with the increasing number of cars and various agricultural machinery and vehicles in rural areas, the 3.5-meter-wide cement roads built in the past are no longer enough. Farmers hope to upgrade rural roads. .

The good news is that farmers don’t have to wait too long.

A few days ago, Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng answered reporters’ questions at a meeting on the construction of “Four Good Rural Roads”.

After reviewing the great achievements in rural road construction in the past, Minister Li said that in the future, the high-quality development of "Four Good Rural Roads" will continue to be promoted.

In terms of the construction of "Four Good Rural Roads", we will continue to promote the following five aspects of work.

1. Implement a new round of rural road construction and renovation

Rural roads “connecting every village” have long been realized, but this is far from the end of rural road construction. In the future, Achieve the leap from “existence to excellence”.

In the future, the construction and reconstruction of rural roads will have the following characteristics: the rural trunk road network will be upgraded and reconstructed, and two-way lanes will be gradually popularized to solve the "difficulty in meeting traffic" caused by narrow roads; the basic road network will continue to extend , expand, gradually realize "every household access", open up the "dead-end road" in the village road, and make it more convenient for farmers to travel.

2. Rural road construction will involve migrant workers

The upgrading and reconstruction of rural roads is a large project that requires a lot of labor.

In order to help farmers increase their income, a large number of migrant workers from nearby villages will be recruited to participate in the future construction of rural roads to help them find employment nearby.

At the same time, greater efforts should be made to promote work-for-relief and continue to increase the development of rural highway-related jobs.

3. Strengthen the management and maintenance of rural roads

Good management and maintenance can greatly extend the service life of roads and avoid premature deterioration of road conditions.

In the past, rural roads were “built but not cared for.” Farmers waited for years or more to build roads, but they often started to become bumpy after only two or three years. If they were maintained at this time, Once in place, the service life will be greatly increased.

But if left unchecked, the road condition will deteriorate rapidly and the road will soon have to be rebuilt.

4. Improve the service quality of rural roads

Rural roads serve farmers’ lives and rural development. After the roads are built in the future, the service level of rural roads must be improved to promote rural development. Integrated development of passenger transport, rural freight and rural postal express delivery.

5. Promote the integrated development of rural roads

In the future, rural road construction will not just build roads, but also integrate the development of rural roads with supporting facilities, industrial parks, and The construction of tourist attractions and rural tourism will be promoted in an integrated manner to achieve a "road-driven economy" such as "prosperity due to roads" and "prosperity due to roads".

Postscript

The author grew up in a rural area and can best understand rural people’s “obsession” with building roads.

Although there is now "every village access", the roads in many villages still cannot meet the needs of rural development.

Take the author's hometown as an example. A large breeding farm has been built in a nearby village. Large trucks often come in and out, but the road at the door has long been dilapidated, affecting transportation efficiency.

Some villagers rented other people’s farmland and planted vegetables and watermelons on a large scale. When they matured, they found that the concrete road at the end of the land had an elevated ceiling erected by a unit where it must be passed, causing a lot of damage. Trucks cannot drive to the end of the field and can only use electric three-wheelers to transport back and forth. They are constantly loading and unloading, resulting in a lot of losses of vegetables and watermelons.

Good roads are the prerequisite for rural development. We hope that rural roads will be more complete in the future to help rural areas take off.