The Yunfu-Maoming Expressway is scheduled to open to traffic on June 11, according to news issued by Guangdong Communications Group on May 30.

The expressway starts at Weidi town in Yunfu and ends at Hehua town in Maoming. It is a standard four-lane expressway, with a total length of 129.7 kilometers and a designated top speed of 100 km per hour.

To the east, the expressway connects the cities in the Pearl River Delta region through the expressway network in Guangdong province. To the west, it can reach the Beibu Gulf city cluster through the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region's road network.

The Yunfu-Maoming Expressway boasts splendid scenery. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

The expressway can reduce the travel times between the mountainous areas in western Guangdong and the Beibu Gulf city cluster by one hour. The journey from Xinyi, a county-level city in Maoming, to Luoding, a county-level city in Yunfu, will also be shortened by one hour.

"We are really looking forward to the opening of the Yunfu-Maoming Expressway. When the time comes, the transportation of plums will be quicker and more convenient," said Li Yun, a farmer from Xinyi.

There was no expressway in the town before, so plum transportation needed to bypass several mountains to get to the nearest expressway, said Li. The Yunfu-Maoming Expressway is built next to the plum plantation base, with a straight-line distance of no more than 100 meters.

"As the expressway opens to traffic, the journey of plum transportation to the Pearl River Delta region will be shortened by more than one hour," said Li, adding that it will greatly save on transportation time and logistics costs.