The road leads to the prosperity of all industries and the smooth flow of goods brings wealth to thousands of households. Nowadays, on the vast land of China, winding rural roads stretch deep into the fields like capillaries, and vehicles loaded with agricultural goods shuttle through village entrances and alleys, delivering mountain goods to thousands of households across the country. "Now express awesome, we dare to pick natural and mature winter jujube, which is still fresh in the hands of customers. ”In Shangbotou Village, Xiawa Town, Zhanhua District, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, Zhang Ankun, a post-90s "new farmer", introduces himself while packing and delivering packages. With the increasingly improved rural delivery network, his winter jujube can be delivered within the next day in the province and within 3 days in remote areas. The 5-pound pack of winter jujubes he livestreamed for sale, with an average daily shipment of three to five hundred orders on weekdays and even reaching seven to eight hundred orders during peak seasons, truly achieving the goal of "fresh fruits from the fields, fast delivery nationwide". Maierdan Mugaiti, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced that during the 14th Five Year Plan period, China's infrastructure such as water, electricity, gas, and telecommunications will continue to cover villages and extend to households, and the delivery network will accelerate its sinking. More villagers can receive express delivery at their doorstep. As of now, the total length of rural roads has exceeded 4.64 million kilometers, and numerous industrial roads, tourist roads, and resource roads have been built. They not only connect the beautiful scenery of the countryside, but also provide new hope for the people to become prosperous, "he said. Rural roads are important components of China's road network, serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers directly as public infrastructure. They are industrial roads, tourist roads, and resource roads. According to data from the Ministry of Transport, since 2014, over 1.4 million kilometers of rural roads have been newly rebuilt in poverty-stricken areas of China, and over 45000 new towns and villages have been connected by buses. All eligible towns and villages have been connected by buses, becoming an important lever for consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promoting the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Nowadays, 'covered in soil on sunny days and mud on rainy days' has become history. More than 30000 townships and 500000 administrative villages in China have all been paved with hardened roads, and the proportion of rural road grades has reached 97.3%, with a good to medium road rate of 94.8%. Cars have driven into the "last mile" of rural areas, making it more comfortable and convenient for farmers to go out for work and return home to visit relatives. Rural tourism and self driving tours have become the first choice for more people to relax and vacation. Rural roads have effectively promoted the two-way flow of people, logistics, and information between urban and rural areas, changed the appearance of rural areas, and effectively assisted in the construction of livable, business friendly, and beautiful countryside. In 2024, the operating revenue of leisure agriculture in China will be nearly 900 billion yuan. Since October, Yang Ping, the secretary of the Party branch in Kaitun Village, Yongle Town, Leishan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, and the resident work team have been very busy. During the National Day and Mid Autumn Festival holiday, the village held the first "Celebrating National Day and Enjoying Harvest" 2025 Kaitun Terraced Fields Golden Autumn Series event, attracting an average of two to three thousand tourists per day. Now, another major event is about to take place - on December 25th, Kaitun Village will welcome the grand "Miao New Year Festival" of the Miao ethnic group. The villagers are enthusiastic and are working hard to improve the infrastructure such as parking lots to welcome visitors from all directions. This road to 'poetry and distant places' is not achieved overnight. The original roads were bumpy and dilapidated, and when it rained, they were all muddy, making it impossible to advance. In 2022, when Yang Ping first took office, he aspired to develop rural tourism, but due to "poor road conditions", it was not launched for a long time. Until the end of 2024, with the comprehensive upgrade of Provincial Highway 204, the dream finally came true. Nowadays, the newly renovated 204 Provincial Road is like an 8-kilometer-long dragon winding around the terraced fields of Kaitun. It not only becomes the main axis of the landscape, but also an important transportation node connecting Kaili City and Leishan County in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture to Rongjiang, Liping, Congjiang and other counties. The newly built Lei (Shan) Rong (Jiang) Expressway also passes through Zhaijiao, providing smooth and convenient access to villages and groups. Do it now, at the right time! ”Yang Ping is full of confidence and the results exceed expectations. Established during the Western Jin Dynasty, the Kaitun Terraced Fields quickly gained popularity with their unique style, attracting a large number of photography enthusiasts, self driving bloggers, and other visitors. Villagers also opened farmhouses, picking gardens, and characteristic homestays, achieving increased income during the "Double Festival" period. I never thought I could earn so much money at my doorstep before, "the villagers exclaimed with joy. During the rice harvest season, walking along the 204 provincial road that runs through Kaitun Village, the layered and colorful Kaitun terraced fields spread out like fingerprints on the earth, beautiful and breathtaking. In the village, tourists can sing and dance with Miao girls dressed in festive costumes, taste fragrant rice wine, take photos in front of unique Miao houses, and drink with villagers at lively long table banquets, immersing themselves in the authentic Miao culture. During the 'Double Festival' period, all seven rooms in my house were fully booked for two or three consecutive days! ”The good business during the holiday has brought sweetness to villager Zhang Zhongjun. Recently, he has decided to upgrade and renovate his own farmhouse, planning to add a few more guest rooms and prepare some locally raised chickens, pigs, etc. for tourists to eat authentically and stay comfortably. The Miao New Year Festival is coming again soon, it must be another peak of passenger flow! "With the road open, the scenery beautiful, and people coming, countless villages like Kaitun Village are leveraging transportation improvement and cultural tourism integration to pave a wider and wider path of revitalization. According to monitoring data from the National Post Office, as of October 11th, the volume of express delivery services in China this year has exceeded 150 billion, 37 days earlier than in 2024. At a recent press conference held by the State Council Information Office, Zhao Chongjiu, the Director of the State Post Administration, said, "The postal industry connects thousands of cities and industries, connects online and offline, integrates into the production process, embeds into consumer scenarios, and reflects the mobile China and open market behind the flowing mail and express delivery. In Kashgar, Xinjiang, the new three-level logistics system of counties, townships, and villages is constantly improving, and more and more refrigerators, washing machines, massage chairs, and other items are being sent to various townships; In Liupanshui, Guizhou, multiple express delivery resources are integrated, and the "source live streaming+logistics linkage" mechanism ensures fast delivery of kiwifruit to the whole country; In Qujing, Yunnan, the logistics network at the county, township, and village levels is constantly becoming denser, achieving a transformation from "scattered and inefficient" to "intensive and efficient" urban-rural economic cycle. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, China will continue to strengthen the construction of rural delivery logistics system, turning the shortcomings of rural delivery services into a "potential board" for rural development. Data shows that currently, over 1500 county-level administrative regions across the country have launched integrated rural passenger, freight, and postal services (i.e. passenger, freight logistics, and postal express delivery), opened more than 13000 cooperative routes, built over 145000 comprehensive service stations, and transported over 1 billion mail and express items annually through passenger, freight, and postal services. The difficulty of express delivery into villages lies in high costs and insufficient transportation capacity, while the situation has changed after mail and express delivery have taken advantage of rural passenger transportation. For example, in Fenggang County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, the local government has upgraded and renovated the town's inefficient idle passenger stations, opened a total of 10 passenger service lines, and delivered goods directly to town and village service points on a scheduled basis, achieving "passenger and freight on the same network", reducing transportation costs for express delivery companies by more than 18%. At the same time, with the help of the postal transportation system and integrated urban-rural public transportation vehicles, express delivery is transported to villages, greatly expanding the coverage of rural logistics distribution and reducing the travel cost of rural people for express delivery by 40%. Under the active guidance of local governments, a large number of agricultural and sideline products have now entered the national market. Promoting the high-quality development of rural transportation and logistics, facilitating the 'last mile' of industrial products going to the countryside and the 'first mile' of agricultural products leaving the village and entering the city, is not only related to the 'happiness on the tongue' of thousands of households, but also to the 'money in the pocket' of farmers, "said Yuan Ruiling, Deputy Director and Associate Researcher of the Market and Trade Research Office of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Shandong Zhanhua winter jujube, also known as "frozen jujube" due to its late maturity, is a geographical indication product in China. In 2024, the output value of the entire winter jujube industry chain in Zhanhua District, Binzhou City, Shandong Province will exceed 6 billion yuan, and the per capita income of jujube farmers will exceed 2000 yuan. The planting area of winter jujube in Shangbotou Village, Xiawa Town, where Zhang Ankun is located, will reach more than 1000 acres, and almost every household will plant it. In the past, it used to be transported by truck, and the roads were difficult to travel. When sending express delivery, one had to queue up in a town several kilometers away, and the shipping cost per order was as high as 8 to 10 yuan. ”Zhang Peng, Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Village Committee of Shangbotou Village, said that after the village launched road upgrading and renovation in 2019, the village is now "well connected" and "it rained for 11 consecutive days recently, and villagers' travel was not affected". More importantly, the local government has launched the "Zao You Xian Feng · Tong Wan Jia" red express delivery service activity to benefit farmers, with the cooperative led by the party branch as the main body, to create village level logistics stations and achieve "door-to-door delivery and door-to-door collection" of express delivery. According to statistics from the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Zhanhua District, this model has reduced express delivery expenses by 900000 yuan and promoted an increase of 120000 yuan in income for the Party building consortium in the entire district. Today on the tree, tomorrow on the road, and the day after tomorrow on the tip of the tongue! ”Zhang Peng said that now the shipping cost has dropped to around 5.5 yuan, and everyone in the village has become a "micro business", with all the people in their social circle posting winter jujubes. From the maturity of winter jujube to October 17th, Shangbotou Village has shipped more than 30000 pieces, and it is expected that the shipment volume this year will be over 50000 pieces. AI big models help enterprises promote intelligent upgrading and transformation throughout the entire chain from warehouse management to end of pipe distribution; The "unmanned" technology has shown great potential in warehousing, transportation, and delivery, improving the efficiency and service level of express delivery services through automation and intelligence... Zhao Chongjiu introduced that the postal industry cultivates and develops new quality productivity according to local conditions, enabling China to achieve the highest daily collection volume of 729 million express deliveries. This transformation is extending to the 'Roof of the World'. Recently, on the snowy plateau with an average altitude of more than 4000 meters, the Neolithic unmanned vehicle was officially put into operation in the "Dingri Zaguo" line in Dingri County, Shigatse, Xizang, marking the successful landing of the first normally operated express unmanned distribution line in Xizang, opening a new chapter of wisdom for the distribution at the end of the plateau. At the Tuxi store in Zaguo Township, the person in charge Gao Zhaoxiang felt a significant change. Nowadays, about 30 parcels are delivered by unmanned vehicles every day, and the delivery frequency has changed from once every two days to once a day. The delivery time is advanced by one hour, which not only reduces the pressure on the store but also allows high-altitude residents to receive packages earlier. In an interview with reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network, Yuan Ruiling pointed out that the improvement of transportation and logistics conditions in poverty-stricken areas has opened up the "capillaries" of rural development, not only unblocking the channels for "agricultural products to go up" and "industrial products and services to go down", but also fundamentally breaking down geographical barriers and building efficient bridges for the flow of talent, information, capital and other factors to rural areas. She admitted that in the process of moving towards high-quality development, there are still multiple challenges such as poor connectivity of transportation and logistics nodes in some regions, and the risk of suspension of some village level stations. However, looking ahead to the "15th Five Year Plan", with the continuous upgrading of rural infrastructure, the continuous densification of logistics networks, and the increasingly perfect policy mechanisms, vast rural areas will surely usher in more vigorous vitality. (New Society)