With the concept of environmental protection continuously enjoying popular support, more and more concerns have been drawn to the problems that how to reduce the damage of expressway construction to the ecological environment, how to protect the natural environment concerning the long-term interests of human development, and how to give full play to the role of natural environment in promoting economic and social development. This paper conducts comprehensive and systematic analysis on the impact of expressway construction on the environment along the route would, in a way, to improve people’s understanding of expressway construction and environmental protection. While in another way, it can increase the predictability in feasibility study and route plan design of expressway construction projects, with which targeted environmental protection measures can be adopted to ensure the harmony between expressway construction and economic development, social progress, and the conservation of the ecological environment.
Highway construction occupies a pivotal role in the development of the national economy, and the construction of many new lines and the transformation of existing lines will bring about a series of environmental issues. According to national development requirements, while ensuring economic development, environmental protection must be done well, the road construction must start from the design and selection of the route, and the environmental protection and the road construction must be combined. Rough construction should not be the focus but should be combined with the actual situation of the line construction to achieve harmonious development with the environment; the requirements for highway construction have also been raised to the point that highway construction must be coordinated with the environment, and economic and environmental benefits must be considered.
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