On August 29, reporters learned from the teleconference on “Four Good Rural Roads” construction held in Hefei, Anhui Province that the whole province will thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on “Four Good Rural Roads” construction, and further mobilize, redeploy, and advance related construction work. Li Jinbin, Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, made written instructions, and Governor Li Guoying attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

In his instructions, Li Jinbin emphasized that “Four Good Rural Roads” construction is an important livelihood project and virtuous-governance project personally promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and an important lever for implementing the rural revitalization strategy, winning the battle against poverty, and improving rural living environments. All localities and departments across the province should focus on the goal of building rural roads into “smooth, safe, comfortable, and beautiful” roads to a happy and moderately prosperous life, vigorously improve quality, and actively explore modern construction models, scientific management models, refined maintenance models, and intelligent operation models, so as to truly build, manage, maintain, and operate rural roads well; grasp key points and strengthen weak links, take solving the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development of rural roads as the main direction, continuously optimize the rural road network layout, strive to shore up shortcomings in rural areas, especially poverty-stricken areas, and better help poverty alleviation and promote rural revitalization; strictly clarify responsibilities and strengthen safeguards, gather a joint force in which transportation departments take the lead and assume overall responsibility, local governments play the principal role, and relevant departments provide support and coordination, and accelerate the modernization of rural transportation.

In his speech, Li Guoying pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the implementation of the rural road expansion and extension project, scientifically arrange project plans, speed up project construction, strictly implement the quality responsibility system, connect a batch of “terminal roads,” open up a batch of “circulation roads,” and build a batch of “industrial roads.” It is necessary to vigorously implement the rural road “road chief system” project, clarify the duties of road chiefs, and build a grid-based management pattern that is “horizontal to the edges and vertical to the bottom.” It is necessary to comprehensively implement the maintenance level improvement project and strive to promote the standardization, professionalization, mechanization, and marketization of rural road maintenance. It is necessary to coordinate the implementation of the rural transportation accessibility project, comprehensively improve rural passenger transport capacity, actively develop “transportation+,” vigorously advance the construction of the logistics system, and effectively ensure transport safety. It is necessary to strengthen support and safeguards, establish a five-level coordinated linkage mechanism across the province, city, county, township, and village, increase support for factors of production, highlight demonstration and guidance, strictly conduct target assessments, and ensure that the results of “Four Good Rural Roads” construction benefit the broad masses more and better, continuously enhancing the people's sense of gain and happiness.

Deng Xiangyang, member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, presided over the meeting; Vice Governor He Shushan attended the meeting; Shi Ping, Director of the Provincial Department of Transportation, made an exchange speech.