The 2026 National Transportation Work Conference focuses on the next five years, outlining the main direction of "One Network, Four Transformations" and providing a practical path for high-quality development of highway transportation. The Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport has earnestly implemented the spirit of the conference, anchored on the strategic goal of building a strong transportation nation, fully leveraging the foundational role of highways in the comprehensive transportation system, striving to strengthen support, ensure safety, benefit people's livelihoods, optimize services, plan transformation, and promote reform, aiming to ensure a good start and progress for transportation during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.

　　With the goal of building "One Network"? Improve the modern highway infrastructure network

　　With the goal of building a modern, high-quality national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, accelerate the improvement of the modern highway infrastructure network.

　　First, advance the construction of major projects. Fully promote the construction of major projects such as the Duku Expressway and the Shiziyang Cross-River Passage, implement expansion and renovation of busy sections of national expressways like Jinggang'ao and Hukun, and accelerate the quality improvement and renovation of key routes such as outbound Xinjiang-Tibet passages and border, coastal areas.

　　Second, strengthen the connection of regional road networks. Promote the construction of regional loops to enhance intercity commuting efficiency within metropolitan areas and the service capacity of urban cluster corridors.

　　Thirdly, smooth the urban-rural connections. Effectively implement the new round of rural road improvement actions and promote the construction of cluster-style rural network roads based on local conditions.

　　Guided by integrated fusion? Enhance the high-quality service supply capacity of highway transportation

　　With deep integration across regions, modes, and fields to enhance collaboration and efficient interaction, continuously improving highway service efficiency to better meet the public's multi-level, diverse, and personalized highway travel needs.

1. Enhance the ability to alleviate congestion and ensure smooth traffic flow. Focus on high-traffic road sections during holidays, strengthen road network operation monitoring, utilize the "multi-party collaboration" mechanism, and formulate congestion alleviation and smooth traffic plans based on "one section, one strategy" to effectively improve road network traffic efficiency.

　　Second, deepen the action to upgrade and improve highway service areas. Accelerate the layout of high-power charging facilities and the renovation of public toilets to accommodate the elderly, promote the construction of "Driver's Home" and open service areas, and enhance the safety and emergency response capabilities of service areas.

　　Thirdly, optimize networked toll collection operation services. Launch an ETC service improvement initiative and promote the "mobile +” card-free convenient passage service on highways.

　　Fourth is to deepen integrated development. Promote the integration of rural roads with modern logistics, industrial parks, and tourist attractions, and carry out the creation of national demonstration counties for the integration of "Four Good Rural Roads" and urban-rural transportation. Strengthen the integration of transportation and tourism, focus on promoting self-driving tourism consumption, accelerate the research and introduction of implementation plans for premium self-driving tourism roads, and create a number of long-distance, cross-regional, high-quality self-driving tourism routes.

　　Fifth, strengthen the construction of collection and distribution systems with railways, ports, airports, etc. Promote the respective comparative advantages of highways and other transportation modes, and enhance the coordinated linkage and efficient connection of various transportation methods.

　　Using safety enhancement as a means? Coordinating high-quality development and high-level safety of highway transportation

　　Safeguard the baseline of safe development, prevent and address various risks and hazards in the highway sector, enhance safety resilience, promote the transformation of governance models towards proactive prevention, further strengthen highway disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, and make every effort to ensure the safety of people's highway travel.

1. Strengthen proactive defense and control. For severe rainfall, typhoons, low temperatures, snow, and freezing weather, enhance proactive defense measures such as "response, inspection, and control."

　　Second, improve the level of intrinsic safety. Continue to deepen the investigation and rectification of hidden dangers in highways and bridges, orderly implement special projects such as the renovation of dangerous and old bridges on national and provincial trunk highways, refinement of safety facilities, disaster prevention, bridge and tunnel structure monitoring, and slope monitoring, and vigorously promote highway safety resilience enhancement projects. Promote a three-year action plan for the rectification and improvement of urgently needed sections of ordinary highways. Accelerate the implementation of the renovation of dangerous and old bridges on rural roads and safety life protection projects.

　　Third, strengthen monitoring and early warning. Accelerate the deployment of monitoring and early warning facilities on highways and key ordinary roads, optimize and improve the provincial monitoring and early warning information system, and expedite the formulation of the "Management Measures for Highway Safety Risk Control During Flood Season" to ensure the safe operation of highways during the flood season.

　　Fourth, strengthen the construction of emergency response capabilities. Improve the highway emergency response plan system, strengthen the layout, construction, and management of national regional highway traffic emergency equipment and material reserve centers, and further enhance the emergency response and traffic restoration capabilities of highway transportation.

　　Using digital intelligence upgrades as an engine? Activating new driving forces for highway transportation development

　　Based on the characteristics of the vast scale, diverse scenarios, and rich data of highway transportation, adhere to systematic planning, cultivate new productivity in the highway sector, strengthen the innovative application of artificial intelligence in highway scenarios, and promote new breakthroughs in the digital and intelligent transformation of highway transportation.

1. Promote the digital and intelligent upgrading of the highway sector. Continuously advance the application of "one model, one set of data" throughout the entire lifecycle of the highway sector, enhancing the empowering role of digital and intelligent technologies in smart construction sites and digital supervision of major projects. Build high-quality datasets for road network operation management, strengthen the application of drone inspections in scenarios such as highway maintenance, road network operation, and monitoring and early warning. Conduct research on innovative engineering services and support for vehicle-road collaboration and automated truck driving on major corridors. Deepen the informatization construction of "one road, one file" for rural highways.

　　Second, promote the transformation of highway maintenance management. Deepen the monitoring of the technical condition of national and provincial trunk highway networks, strengthen the application of data-driven scientific maintenance decision-making, continuously improve maintenance precision, and ensure that the road conditions of national and provincial trunk highways remain at an excellent level. Fully implement modern highway maintenance projects, promote new models of long-cycle, zonal, and centralized maintenance, enhance the application of AI technology in highway maintenance scenarios, and continuously improve the modernization, specialization, and intelligence level of highway maintenance.

　　Third, improve the long-term mechanism for rural road maintenance and renovation. Establish a promotion mechanism centered on the rate of good and medium-quality roads, and accelerate the implementation of automated condition detection for eligible rural roads to achieve "annual inspection."

　　Taking the path of green transformation? Painting a new picture of green development in highway transportation

　　Guided by the "dual carbon" goals, integrate the concept of green and low-carbon development throughout the entire process of highway transportation infrastructure planning, construction, operation, and maintenance. Continuously promote the development and utilization of clean energy in highway infrastructure and advance the integrated development of highways and energy.

　　1. Continue to deepen green highway construction. Enhance the level of green and low-carbon highway construction, strengthen highway ecological environment protection efforts, actively explore "using roads to control sand," and build a solid ecological security barrier.

　　Second, strengthen the integrated development of transportation and energy. Research and issue implementation opinions to promote the integration of highways with photovoltaic and other clean energy sources, enhance the coordinated planning and integrated implementation of highways and energy infrastructure, encourage the research and application of key technologies such as smart energy and light-storage direct-flexible systems, and advance the pilot implementation of highway "source-grid-load-storage-charging integration" projects and the construction of (near) zero-carbon service areas.

　　Third, improve the supporting services for new energy heavy-duty trucks. Effectively ensure charging and battery swapping needs, create zero-carbon highway transportation channels, and support the clean and low-carbon transformation of freight structure.

　　With efficient governance as a guarantee? Promote the sustainable and healthy development of highway transportation

　　Resolutely eliminate obstacles and bottlenecks hindering the construction of a unified national market, further improve institutional development, strengthen standard guidance, optimize regulatory mechanisms, and support the implementation and effectiveness of "One Network and Four Transformations" with high-level governance.

1. Accelerate the promotion of toll road policy optimization and standardize the implementation of differentiated toll policies.

　　Second, optimize the highway engineering standard system. Accelerate the formulation and revision of safety standards and specifications for highway bridges, improve the "1+N+X" standard system for highway bridges, strengthen the supply of maintenance and operation management standards, and enhance the adaptability and advancement of standards and specifications.

　　Third, improve the industry regulatory system. Formulate guidelines for further strengthening highway survey and design work, notifications for further strengthening highway completion (handover) acceptance work, highway construction market credit management measures and evaluation rules, and build a more robust industry regulatory system to safeguard the healthy development of the highway sector with efficient governance.

　　Fourth, strengthen road administration. Accelerate the revision of the "Road Administration Regulations," further promote the construction of the nationwide overload control "one network," and continue to carry out special governance of "Hundred-Ton King" trucks.

　　Mission inspires progress, and practical work creates the future. On the new journey, we must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, uphold the political responsibility of fully implementing strict Party governance, firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, earnestly implement the requirements of the Ministry's Party Leadership Group, effectively put the spirit of the National Transportation Work Conference into practice and achieve results, and strive to contribute highway strength to accelerating the construction of a strong transportation nation and advancing Chinese-style modernization.