Most provinces have achieved the goal of "high-speed connections between cities". The construction of expressways has also supported the revitalization of rural areas. Many towns and villages have developed their agriculture and rural tourism through expressways.

By 2035, the national expressway will connect all prefecture-level administrative cities and counties with more than 100,000 urban areas, and will directly serve 90 percent of the county-level administrative regions. By then, China will have a world-class highway network that matches its modern socialist aspiration, with integrated information network and coordinated ecological civilization.