Hefeng County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province solidly promotes the national and provincial road lighting project

Night falls and the lights start to shine. Returning from Wulong Mountain to Hefeng County, when driving towards the slope of G351, looking down, G351 Tai Xiao Line intersects with Yilai Expressway, S245 Balai Line, and X003 Zhangkang Line in a vertical and horizontal manner, creating a magnificent transportation network. Countless streetlights stretch like a sparkling galaxy, connecting urban and rural areas with dazzling lights, paving a bright and smooth path to revitalization in the darkness of night.

In recent years, Hefeng County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, has continuously promoted the upgrading of transportation infrastructure. With the national and provincial road lighting projects as the starting point, it has not only woven a dense night safety protection net, but also painted a new picture of night scenery integration and cultural tourism symbiosis.

As the "main artery" of county-level development, national and provincial roads such as G351, S245, S341 carry multiple functions such as cargo transportation, mass travel, and cultural tourism connectivity. Previously, the lighting facilities in its transit towns were outdated and lacked brightness, which hindered traffic efficiency and development potential. To this end, Hefeng County adheres to the orientation of people's livelihood, invests special funds, implements the renovation and construction of street lights in transit towns along national and provincial roads, selects energy-saving and efficient LED light sources that are suitable for mountainous road conditions, scientifically optimizes the layout, and achieves full coverage and no dead corners of lighting in the transit sections of main highways and towns.

As of now, thousands of streetlights have been installed and updated on the main roads and towns in the county, and the road illumination on the renovated sections has significantly improved. The road guidance signs and collision prevention facilities have been synchronously improved, effectively reducing the risk of nighttime driving accidents. In the section from G351 Yanzi Town to Rongmei Town, the winding road is outlined with beautiful contours by lights, which stretch and stretch along the mountain terrain, complementing the green mountains, villages, and tea gardens, forming a beautiful artistic conception of "cars on the road, people in the painting".

The lighting project not only safeguards the safety of people's travel, but also becomes a catalyst for the integration of culture and tourism. Hefeng County closely follows its regional characteristics and uses soft warm toned lighting around scenic areas such as Pingshan Canyon, Wulong Mountain and Water World, and Jiangping River Pier to maximize the protection of natural ecology; At key nodes such as the Nanshui River Bridge and the Jumping Fish Bridge, light and shadow technology is used to create night landmarks, making the transportation corridor a flowing window to showcase the image of Hefeng. As night falls, self driving tourists flock in, and the business of homestays and farmhouses along the route is booming. The "night economy" has become a new growth point for rural revitalization.

Now when I go out at night, the road is bright and clear. Whether it's going to the town for business or visiting scenic spots, it's particularly convenient and reassuring, "said Ms. Zhang from Miaowan Village in Rongmei Town with a smile. Convenient and smooth transportation makes people's travel more comfortable, and also makes the development pace of the county more stable.

Next, Hefeng County will continue to deepen the maintenance, optimization, and upgrading of national and provincial roads, integrate elements of Tujia culture, red culture, and other cultural and tourism development plans, and promote the deep integration of transportation construction with industrial development and cultural and tourism prosperity. Using lighting as a pen and roads as paper, we continuously polish the business card of "health and prosperity, poetry and painting of crane peaks", allowing the dazzling lights to illuminate the path to wealth and happiness for the masses, injecting a continuous stream of light and strength into the high-quality development of the county.