China’s State Council Information Office on Friday released a white paper titled “China’s Rural Roads in the New Era” to outline the achievements and vision of rural road development in the new era and to share China’s experience.
So far, the country has put in place a rural transport infrastructure network in which county roads connect rural and urban areas, township roads crisscross, and village roads facilitate travel between households and farmland, the white paper said.
Since 2014, more than 1.4 million km of rural roads have been built or upgraded in previously poor areas, all towns, townships and administrative villages where conditions allow had been connected to paved roads by 2019, and all such villages had been connected to bus services by 2020, the white paper noted.
Experts said that China’s achievements in rural roads and poverty reduction highlight the country’s people-centered development philosophy. Meanwhile, China has actively shared its experience with other developing countries and helped them improve their infrastructure, making significant contributions to sustainable development on a global scale.
