If we were to follow Ma Lin's proposition to build gravel roads across the nation without considering the cost, aiming to complete within a year, and recruit all the construction workers from nearby rural areas with the state paying their labor fees, the scale of the project would be enormous and would deplete the nation's fiscal revenues.
The key to economic development is balance, so the various Road Committees across the country seriously pondered this issue and decided to scale down the construction plan.
Within the territory of the former Eastern Kingdom and the Far Eastern Kingdom, all towns and townships must be connected by gravel roads. Whether or not to connect villages to townships with gravel roads would depend on the village's population size and distance from the township.
All cities and county-level cities must be connected by asphalt highways.
