According to the report of the Provincial Department of Transportation to the representatives of the National People's Congress in Guangdong yesterday, according to the 2015-2024 expressway construction plan, the province's expressway mileage will reach 7,660 kilometers by the end of 2016. On the basis of the county-by-county expressway, further improve the expressway out of the province and the main road from the Pearl River Delta to the east, west and north of Guangdong. In 2016, seven projects including Chaohui Expressway, Jiangluo Expressway, Yunfu-Yangjiang Expressway, Guangqing Expressway reconstruction and expansion, and Guangfo Zhao Expressway will be built in the east, west and north regions of Guangdong.
By the end of 2024, Guangdong will complete all six expressways connecting Hong Kong and Macau. In the next five years, Guangdong also plans to invest 500 billion yuan to increase the mileage of expressways to traffic by 3,982 kilometers, the newly-started mileage will exceed 1,200 kilometers, and 3,583 kilometers of construction projects will be promoted. . At the end of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the province's total mileage will reach 11,000 kilometers.
According to Yang Xiping, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Transportation and spokesperson, the province's highway construction during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" has completed an investment of 316.6 billion yuan, 7.7% more than the original plan. In 2014, the mileage of expressways opened to traffic in the province reached 6,280 kilometers, ranking first in the country; by the end of 2015, the mileage of expressways reached 7,018 kilometers, the first in the country to exceed 7,000 kilometers.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Guangdong will speed up the construction of the Guangdong-boundary section of the national expressway network and the passage across the Pearl River estuary, to realize five or more expressway passages between neighboring provinces and regions by land routes, and to build all six expressways connecting Hong Kong and Macao. road access.
During this period, the province plans to complete an investment of 500 billion yuan. The main project of the Haizhong Bridge and Tunnel of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, Luoding-Xinyi (Guangdong-Guangxi border), Yulin (provincial border)-Zhanjiang Expressway and other projects, the newly started mileage exceeds 1,200 kilometers; the Shenhai Expressway will be implemented in sections, etc. Reconstruction and expansion projects of congested road sections; promote the 3,583-kilometer continuation project to ensure that the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Shankun-Kunming, Wu-Shen Expressway and other projects are completed and opened to traffic on schedule.
By the end of 2024, the mileage of expressways will reach 20,000 kilometers, and the main skeleton network of expressways connecting the outside and the inside will be further improved. In order to give full play to our province's geographical advantages of connecting Hong Kong and Macao, radiating the Pan-Pearl River, and serving the world, it will lay a solid foundation for the basic realization of modernization. Base.
