Hefei: “Four Good Rural Roads” pave the way for rural revitalization

Braving the scorching sun and high temperatures to visit highway construction

At about 11 a.m. on June 15, with the scorching sun in the sky, we were at the construction site of the S366 Heliu South Channel construction project in Shishugang Township, Feixi County. Multiple large-scale construction machines shuttled back and forth, and workers were sweating profusely while laying asphalt. Photographers pointed their cameras at them.

As the sun sets in the west, the piers and main towers of the Zhaohe Super Bridge, a reconstruction project for the Quanshui to Huanggu section of S319 Jun'er Road in Lujiang County, look majestic against the gorgeous sunset. The Xiage River Bridge, the G329 Chaohu section reconstruction project, has been paved with a layer of asphalt, and its majestic appearance has been revealed.

These three roads are important passages in Hefei and will be completed and opened to traffic by the end of this year or next year, playing an important role in promoting regional economic development.

On the Avenue around Chaohu Lake, Paihe Bridge, Hangbu River Bridge, Baishi Tianhe Bridge, etc. are arranged in sequence. The blue sky is covered with white clouds, the vast lake surface is misty, and the Chaohu Lake Avenue passes through the green protective forest and tender green rice fields, which is so beautiful. Photographers raise their drones and create to their heart’s content.

In addition, the group of photographers braved the scorching sun and high temperatures to visit the south extension of Huizhou Avenue to the Lujiang River, Tangchi Avenue, and the G329 Hexiang Road reconstruction project.

?Four Good Rural Roads? Helping Rural Revitalization

In Lujiang, the road from Tangchi to Ketan (referred to as Tangke Road) is smooth, making Baihua Village in the mountains a well-known tourist attraction. Scenic spots. Zhong Yiming, secretary of the Baihua Village Party Committee and director of the village committee, said in an interview that many villagers are now starting businesses at home. Some have opened their own supermarkets to sell agricultural products, some have opened farm hotels, and some have opened small farmhouse restaurants. If a small restaurant does well, it can earn 100,000 yuan a year.

According to Song Weidong, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Lujiang County Transportation Bureau and director of the County Rural Road Management Service Center, Tangke Road is a model for rural road construction in the county. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Lujiang County seized the opportunity to accelerate the construction of "Four Good Rural Roads" to help rural revitalization. By the end of 2021, the county's rural roads will have a mileage of more than 4,500 kilometers, and efforts will be made to create high-quality rural tourism passenger transport routes to further promote the development of red tourism, rural tourism and ecological tourism in the county.

According to reports, since the 13th Five-Year Plan, Hefei has implemented 12,500 kilometers of rural road smoothing projects and new reconstruction projects. The rate of townships connected to second-level roads and above, and the rate of integrated villages connected to fourth-level roads and above has reached 100%, basically forming a road network system with national and provincial roads as the backbone, county and township roads connecting and supporting, and rural roads radiating and extending.

In 2021, Hefei City was rated as the national "Four Good Rural Roads" Outstanding Unit in the Construction of Municipal Areas. Feixi County and Chaohu City were respectively rated as the national "Four Good Rural Roads" model counties, Feidong County was rated as the "Four Good Rural Roads" provincial model county, and the city successfully created a provincial-level "Top Ten Most Beautiful Rural Roads" ?11 rural roads including Qingtian Road, Tangke Road, Longhua Road, and Longchi Avenue were rated as provincial-level rural road quality demonstration roads.

The construction of Hefei’s “Four Good Rural Roads” not only makes travel smoother, but also paves the way for rural revitalization.