Ministry of Transport： Ensure the cancellation of provincial toll stations of national expressways within two years.

　　CCTV News:In this year’s government work report, the cancellation of provincial toll stations on national expressways was mentioned again. Today, the Ministry of Transport introduced the latest progress of this work.

　　According to the statistics of the Ministry of Transport, there are still 229 toll stations on the main expressway in China. The cancellation of these toll stations involves the reform and innovation of the toll collection mode, as well as a large number of hardware engineering construction and software upgrading, the unification of relevant policies, and the placement of personnel, which is quite difficult.

　　Wu Chungeng, spokesperson of the Ministry of Transport: Because expressways are built and operated by provinces, involving many business entities and some economic organizations, they all entered according to the law, and now they have to withdraw their stations, which involves fund settlement. In order to reflect fairness, the amount of coordination is very large. When it comes to personnel placement, there are about 30,000 people in more than 200 main line stations, which need to be properly placed within a certain period of time.

　　Wu Chungeng revealed that the Ministry of Transport regards the cancellation of provincial toll stations on expressways as the top priority in 2019. A special work headquarters has been set up to clarify the implementation route and related technical solutions.

　　At present, in view of each technical difficulty and risk point, the special work headquarters has formulated a plan and has specific countermeasures to achieve the goal of withdrawing the station.

　　Wu Chungeng, spokesperson of the Ministry of Transport: We will mobilize all forces and do everything possible to ensure that the provincial toll stations of national expressways will be basically cancelled ahead of schedule within two years.