[In 2023, Zhejiang will rebuild 1,000 kilometers of rural roads] A few days ago, the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting Comprehensive Rural Revitalization at a High Level in 2023" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"). The "Opinions" pointed out: to create version 2.0 of "Four Good Rural Roads", to promote 26 counties (towns) in mountainous areas to connect third-class roads and administrative villages to connect to two-lane roads, and to complete 1,000 kilometers of newly rebuilt rural roads and 6,000 kilometers of maintenance projects. In the next five years, Zhejiang's highway transportation system will increase efforts to build and renovate ordinary national and provincial highways and low-grade road sections, and vigorously promote the construction of "Four Good Rural Roads" version 2.0. By 2027, Zhejiang will complete the reconstruction of 10,000 kilometers of rural roads, and realize that all natural villages with more than 100 people will be connected to grade roads; focus on promoting the construction of road network in mountainous counties, and realize that more than 85% of towns in 26 counties in mountainous areas will have access to third-grade roads, and more than 65% of them will be organized Two-lane roads are connected to the village; the "four networks in one" digital road is basically built, and a digital real-scene map of the road is built. Editor/Xu Shengpeng

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• [Spain advances research on the Strait of Gibraltar tunnel]
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• [Fujairah oil port attacked by drones again]
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