Four Highways Connecting Hunan and Guangdong: Your Travel, Your Choice!

With the rapid development of national highways in recent years, there have been four highways connecting Hunan and Guangdong. There are four highways connecting Hunan and Guangdong, which have been completed. There are four-lane bidirectional highways, six-lane bidirectional highways, and one that will be expanded to eight-lane bidirectional! When you go home or travel, which one would you choose? The editor will analyze it for you.

Currently, there are 4 direct highways between Hunan and Guangdong, as shown in the picture (from left to right are the Second Guangzhou Highway, Yue Lin Highway, Beijing-Guangzhou Highway, and Wu Shen Highway).

Hunan Highway Network Map

1Second Guangzhou Highway (Second Guangzhou Highway is also called the Second Guangzhou Highway)

The Second Guangzhou Highway passes through Changde, Yiyang, Loudi, Shaoyang, Yongzhou in Guangdong, and Qingyuan, Zhaoqing, Foshan in Guangdong, and Guangzhou. It mainly serves the travel of people between Hunan and Guangdong, and takes care of Huaihua, Xiangxi, Zhangjiajie, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei Xiangyang, Jingmen, Jingzhou, Henan Jiyuan, Luoyang, Pingdingshan, Nanyang, Dengzhou, etc. It is a four-lane bidirectional highway, the road conditions are good, the altitude is not high, there is no fog and snow weather, mostly flat. Except for the part of Inner Mongolia that has not been through, the rest are all open to traffic.

The full route map of the Second Guangzhou Highway

Road Basic Conditions

2Yue Lin Highway (On the Guangdong side, the connection is the Qing Lian Highway and the Guang Lian Highway)

to Guangdong Lianzhou highway is being built, a six-lane highway will be built soon. Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission recently approved the to ( border) highway construction project, the project starts from, connects with Yue Lin Highway; ends at , connecting with Guang Lian Highway. The line is 5.66km long, a six-lane bidirectional highway standard, construction started in the first half of 2020, will be open to traffic in 2023.

Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission approves the project

Yueyang to Chenzhou Linwu section, also known as Yue Lin Highway. Number: Hunan Highway S61. It is in a north-south longitudinal direction, the main line is on the west side of the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway, almost parallel to the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway, divided into four segments: Sui Yue Hunan, Yue Tan (including Changxiang), Tan Heng and Heng Wu, the total length of the main line is 539km, using four or six-lane bidirectional, all of which were opened to traffic on September 29, 2018.

The location map of Yue Lin Highway

From Guangzhou to Lianzhou Highway, also known as Guang Lian Highway, Guangdong Provincial Highway Number: S1. The Guang Lian Highway starts from Guangzhou Tianhe District Autocity Interchange (under construction Guangzhou New Baiyun International Airport Second Highway), ends at Qingyuan City Lianzhou Dadian North Side Fen, six lanes bidirectional, planned to be completed before the end of December 2021.

Qing Lian Highway: Through the Eighth-Lane Qingqing Highway to reach Guangzhou, Qing Lian Highway four-lane north to connect with the Linwu to Lianzhou highway being built. It directly reaches Hengyang, Changsha, Chenzhou, Shaoyang, Loudi, etc. in Hunan Central and Hunan East regions. Four to eight-lane bidirectional highway, good road conditions, no high altitude, no fog and snow weather, mostly flat.

Qing Lian Highway location map

The Guangqing Highway is expanded to eight lanes bidirectional

Qing Lian Highway and Second Guangzhou Highway are connected highways, planned to be opened to traffic in 2021.

3Beijing-Guangzhou Highway (on the Guangdong side, the connection is the Le Guang Highway and the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway Guangdong segment)

The Beijing-Guangzhou Highway passes through Beijing, Baoding, Zhangjiagang, Cangzhou, Xinxiang, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Yichang, Wuhan, Xinnan, Yueyang, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Hengyang, Chenzhou, Shaoguan, Guangzhou, Zhuhai (border crossing), Macau (border crossing), mainly passes through the central district of the city, is a major trunk line, basically four-lane bidirectional.

On March 30, 2020, the Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission announced several highway renovations and expansions in Hunan, which included the to segment of the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway, and the Yue Lin Highway Shaotian to Hengyang segment, four lanes expanded to eight lanes, the traffic capacity will be greatly improved, as shown in the picture:

Hunan's Five-Year Highway Expansion Planning

Beijing-Guangzhou Highway Hunan Segment Road Conditions Map

The Beijing-Guangzhou Highway in Guangdong segment is high in altitude, the road is steep, the altitude is high, foggy traffic is not easy, and there are many tunnels and tunnel groups, the road conditions are poor

Tunnel of the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway in Shaoguan segment

Guangqing Highway, six lanes bidirectional, connected to the Guangzhou Airport Highway into and out of Guangzhou. The road conditions are good, there is some congestion near the Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, often causing Guangzhou Airport to have severe congestion, affecting passengers boarding,

Guangqing Highway enters Guangzhou location map

4Wu Shen Highway (Wu Shen Highway runs through Wuhan-Jiayu-Chongqing-Tongcheng-Pijie-Liuyang-Liling-Yuelu-Lishui-Guida-Ruzhou-Renhe-Xishan-Longmen-Bolo-Dongguan-Shenzhen, the total length is about 1083 kilometers, basically parallel to the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway, opened to traffic on December 28, 2018. It mainly serves areas to the east of Beijing-Guangzhou Highway. Because it is recently opened and mostly not economically developed areas, the traffic volume is not large, the road conditions are good, and the traffic is smooth.

Wu Shen Highway location map

The four highways passing through Hunan and Guangdong, respectively, serve different areas, of course, choosing off-peak travel and choosing multi-winding high-speed travel with less people is also a wise choice, and holiday traffic on high-speed highways are crowded, only the easternmost Wu Shen Highway will be relatively good, but it often has congestion.

Travel, please be cautious; choose, please be reasonable, good luck!