Special Supplement: All roads lead to province's prosperity

An old Cantonese saying goes: "Lu Tong, Cai Tong", which means a region more easily becomes rich if it has advanced road network to link it to the outside.

He Zhongyou, director-general of Guangdong provincial bureau of communications, knows the proverb very well.

To further improve the province's highway network, He's bureau plans to invest more than 647.2 billion yuan in 71 projects to further upgrade transport facilities in the coming five years to better serve Guangdong's rapid economic growth,