Road map to winning battle against poverty in 3 years

(chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2018-11-22

Photo taken on Nov 1, 2017, shows a road in Sanli township of Shanglin county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. By the end of 2017, the mileage of rural road reached 98,373 kilometers in Guangxi. [Photo/Xinhua]

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By 2020, the transportation network in rural areas should be enlarged to fulfill the goal of bus routes connecting all villages.

More transfer payments from the reform of taxes and fees for refined petroleum products should be used for maintenance of rural roads. Push ahead the national railway network and highway network construction to connect poor areas, and facilitate the renovation of national- and provincial-level roads, and the construction of airports and inland waterways.

Authorities should push the courier industry to include villages, improve the logistics distribution system in poor rural areas, and strengthen the cold chain facilities construction at production bases for local agricultural products.