Zhejiang is becoming smaller: the "Four-hour traffic circle" in Zhejiang has now been founded generally.
Zhejiang is becoming larger: the "Half-day traffic circle" around the Yangtze Delta is also in construction.
During the past four years, 1,075 kilometers of highway has been built and put into use in Zhejiang, which was nearly the total amount of that in the 13 years before.
At present, the time it costs to travel from Hangzhou to any other city in Zhejiang Province is less than 4 hours, so there are many people are now driving their own cars to the beauty spots to spend weekends.
Better traffic is also beneficial to people from the rural areas: before it often costs half a day to travel from countrysides to the downtown; while at present, half an hour. The 50,000 kilometers of highway constructed during the past 5 years has covered countrisides and mountainside, and the buses have covered more than 90% of the villages in Huzhou and Jiaxing.
For example, Gaoshan Village under Hangzhou's Fuyang City is on the height of more than 600 meters above the sea level, and the water mellons are the main source of incomes. Before, due to the traffic problems, the sales of mellons was quite hard; while now, the Gaoshan mellons have become quite popular, and the incomes of the farmers have also enjoyed a leap.