Early 20th century, China began to build the car pass road, then the road sector in most provincial roads regardless of just road maintenance, only the individual routes such as Hunan Changtan highway road maintenance road course set up in 1927 to carry out regular maintenance. 30 years, east and south China provinces have established a track maintenance organizations, some of the road maintenance management regulations promulgated.
1939 Highway administration has begun to collect road maintenance fee, as a main source of funding for road maintenance. 1940s, major highways Northwest, Southwest, South Africa and other regions to establish a unified conservation organization. But in the North China Plain and Northeast, still use to take the slack season road maintenance workers. 1950s, governments at all levels to establish a universal transport sector road maintenance management agencies, the Ministry of Transportation Highway Administration has developed regulations and technical specifications of the road maintenance, road maintenance improved collection methods.
In 1955 the State Council issued "on the improvement of civilian workers to build roads and local roads conservation indication." China's road maintenance not only ensures the smooth flow of good roads and a lot of substandard roads and lanes and gradually turned into a big meet certain technical level roads.
December 28, 2010. Minister of Transport Li Shenglin in the national work conference on traffic Description: By the end of 2010. Our highway mileage has reached 7-4 million km, after the United States, ranking second in the world. In the New fast-growing highway at the same time. Many of the original highway has suffered different degrees of disease and damage. And these diseases, damage lack of timely and reasonable road maintenance, resulting in a sharp decline in part of the highway traffic. The vehicle driving comfort, economy and safety had no small impact. therefore. In recent years, highway pavement maintenance management and related issues have received increasing attention.
