Hunan Rural Road Maintenance Management Studies

Vigorously developing the rural road, an important infrastructure, plays a vital role in the improvement of countryside transport conditions and investment environment; and can promote the development of economic society in broad rural areas and effectively solve "three dimensional rural" issues as well as connect rural and urban civilization. Besides, it is helpful to narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, and effectively promote urbanization in rural areas; to accelerate the pace of building new socialist countryside;and to guarantee the total achievement of building a moderately prosperous society.In recent years, great efforts throughout the country are devoted to the rural road construction, Hunan countryside highway construction which has already a considerable scale, has also been rapidly developed by leaps and bounds, Rural roads played a positive role in improving not only farmers'travel environment, but also the quality and level of rural life. However, due to the problems such as the neglect of maintaining the road, the inadequate funding of rural road maintenance, the incomplete maintenance management system and operational mechanism, the "absence" of maintenance management and so on, the maintenance management of rural roads is still in the relatively backward stage.A number of rural highways are seriously in short of maintenance.In order to ensure a sustainable supply of rural roads, and to meet the needs of the development rural economy, new measures to improve the management of road maintenance in Hunan rural areas are presented:starting with the publicity work of conservation and management of rural roads, ascertaining the responsibilities, improving management mechanisms of rural road maintenance;rationalizing the system and separating the custody and maintenance, to implement the market-oriented operation mechanism of conservation; establishing a long-term stable funding channels and supervising systems;regulating the management of rural road construction;increasing the intensity of rural highway road administration; standardizing the construction and conservation methods as well as mechanized configuration, and establishing conservation standards and consummate laws related.