China News Service, Taiyuan, December 14 (Yang Peipei) A reporter learned from a press conference held by the Shanxi Provincial People’s Government Information Office on the 14th that the province will open up the Yellow River, Great Wall, and Taihang tourism channels by 2025. Basically Build a tourist road network that runs through the entire Shanxi region.

  The Yellow River, Great Wall, and Taihang No. 1 tourist roads are the focus of the construction of the "Four Good Rural Roads".

Shanxi has planned 13,000 kilometers of tourist roads. Up to now, 5,472 kilometers have been built, connecting 74 scenic spots of A-level and above, and covering 185 non-A-level scenic spots.

  According to Wang Sixiao, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Transportation, in 2020, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have advanced the implementation period of the three No. 1 tourist road plans from 2027 to 2025.

This year, the province has decided to speed up construction and build more than 2,500 kilometers per year in the next three years to ensure that three No. 1 tourist road networks will be fully completed by 2024.

  During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanxi planned to rebuild 29,000 kilometers of rural roads in five years.

Implement 6000 kilometers of hardened roads in natural villages with more than 30 households, and promote rural roads to incline toward villages and households, and extend to natural villages.

Focusing on the upgrading and reconstruction of roads connecting towns and towns, implement 3,500 kilometers of dual-lane roads to villages and 4,000 kilometers of tertiary roads to towns to further improve rural road traffic conditions.

  At the same time, Shanxi will rebuild about 1,500 kilometers of park roads, resource roads, and industrial roads to promote the integration and development of rural roads, characteristic towns, and beautiful villages.

Implement 1,600 kilometers of life safety protection projects on rural roads, improve drainage protection facilities, promote the reinforcement of dangerous bridges and tunnels, basically eliminate existing rural roads of four or five types of bridges, and gradually eliminate substandard tunnels; continue to promote the "one light, one belt" project of rural roads, Basically realize the full coverage of "one light and one belt" at the level crossing with the national and provincial highways.

  In terms of promoting the integrated development of transportation and tourism, Xu Youzhi, director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Transportation, said that the overall layout and functional connection of transportation hubs and tourist distribution centers will be strengthened in major airports and high-speed railway stations. Set up rental business for cars and RVs.

Encourage the development of general aviation mid-air sightseeing and low-altitude tourism businesses, and create a brand of "see Shanxi from the air".

  In addition, strengthen the "last mile" road construction and service organization in the scenic area, build car and RV camps around the main scenic spots, and improve the business travel and leisure facilities in the expressway service area.

Encourage the opening of urban and rural tourism bus lines in key tourist attractions, traditional villages, leisure agricultural clusters, leisure farms, famous tourist villages with special landscapes, and "farmhouses".

Research and use the province’s general-speed railway to organize and run special tourist trains, and explore the new ticket system of "one ticket to the end, hop on and off".

(Finish)