On the 25th, the reporter learned from the Hengyong Expressway project team that the State Council has officially approved the agricultural land conversion plan, supplementary cultivated land plan, and land expropriation plan for the Hengyang-Yongzhou Expressway.

The Hengyong Expressway has a total length of 106.227 kilometers and an estimated investment of 14.843 billion yuan, and is expected to be completed and open to traffic in 2023. According to State Council requirements, Hengyong Company under Hunan Jiaoshui Construction Group can complete the land use procedures for the Hengyong Expressway project construction after paying the paid use fee for newly added construction land.

According to reports, the construction funds for the Hengyong Expressway project have been secured, temporary facilities such as centralized stations have been completed at the construction site, land expropriation and demolition work is being intensively advanced, and project construction will be fully launched.

The Hengyong Expressway is a densification line in Hunan Province's "seven vertical and nine horizontal" expressway network plan. It starts at Yumu Village, Yumushan Town, Zhengxiang District, Hengyang City, connects with the Yuelin Expressway, passes through six cities, counties, and districts including Zhengxiang District, Yanfeng District, Hengnan County, Qidong County, Qiyang County, and Lengshuitan District, crosses Qishan through a long tunnel, and ends at the Maping hub interchange on the north side of Lengshuitan District, intersecting with the Shaoyong Expressway and connecting directly to the Yongling Expressway. The entire line adopts the standard of a two-way four-lane expressway, with a designed driving speed of 120 kilometers per hour.