Aerial photo taken on Aug. 3, 2020 shows mountain roads leading to Chenqiao Village, Zhouning County, southeast China's Fujian Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)
Currently, China's rural roads total 4.2 million km in length. The country is not simply pursuing an increase in its rural road mileage, but strives to promote the integration of transportation construction, resource development and industrial development in rural areas to better serve rural vitalization.
After a section of the "Great Wall No.1 Tour Road" was built in Shanxi in 2018, tourists swarmed into Zhenbianbu, a formerly impoverished village at the foot of the Great Wall in Yanggao County.
Former migrant worker Zhang Yuewen, 25, has returned home and opened a small workshop selling homemade grain liquor to tourists.
"Despite the epidemic, I earned more than 70,000 yuan last year, twice my income as a migrant worker," he said.
In 2020, the per capita net income of villagers more than tripled from the level in 2014 to over 7,000 yuan.
From 2016 to 2020, China's investment in its rural road network topped 310 billion yuan.
