On July 25, 2022, the Ministry of Transport held a press conference to interpret the "National Highway Network Planning". In the future, it will take 15 minutes for all counties and cities in the country to access ordinary national highways, and 30 minutes for prefecture-level administrative centers and cities and counties with a population of more than 100,000 to access national expressways.

Data show that by the end of 2021, the total mileage of China's highways has reached 5.28 million kilometers, 117,000 kilometers of national expressways have been built, and 257,700 kilometers of ordinary national highways have been opened to traffic. The scale of the road network ranks among the top in the world, and the mileage of expressways ranks first in the world. At present, the expressway network with the national expressway as the main body has covered 98.8% of urban areas, cities with a population of more than 200,000 and prefecture-level administrative centers, connecting about 88% of county-level administrative regions and about 95% of the population in China. Ordinary national highways basically cover county-level and above administrative regions and border ports that are open all year round, effectively connecting important towns, industrial parks, transportation hubs, and tourist attractions.Editor/Ma Xue