Recently, Youshi-Meishui Highway (of Youdou Line) Reconstruction Project with a total investment of more than 8 million yuan has been completed and Shangyou County Seat-Jiangxi'ao Highway Reconstruction Project started construction. The travel and leisure within the county seat of Shangyou has become free flow. In recent years, Shangyou County continues to improve the traffic situation and focuses on building 1-hour tourism circle.
The rapid growth of eco-tourism industry puts forward higher requirements on traffic conditions within the county. To this end, Shangyou County integrated resources to reinforce the construction momentum of transportation facilities within Shangyou County and built convenient and quick 1-hour tourism transportation network. Shangyou County took 2009 Ganzhou (Shangyou). China Eco-tourism Cultural Festival as an opportunity and introduced foreign investment to speed up construction of Shangyou County Seat-Meishui Arterial Tourism Highway and Meishui-Doushui B Tourism Road. The roads will be opened to traffic in the near future and form a framework composed of sightseeing road along the lake, Youshi-Meishui Highway, Meishui-Doushui Highway and Meishui-Doushui B Tourism Road as well as a tourism traffic circle to cover Doushui Lake, Xianren Lake and Nanhe Lake. Then, there will be only 10-minute drive from the county seat to Doushui Lake Scenic Area.
Shangyou County positively strived for funds from upper levels to start Shangyou County Seat-Jiangxi'ao Highway Reconstruction Project, upgraded Shangjiang and Shangtai lines as the main structural frame, and connected the tourism traffic circle of Wuzhi Mountain National Forest Park, Yanzi Rock and Cao Hill. Then, there will be only one-hour drive from the county seat to Wuzhi Mountain Scenic Area. Meanwhile, Shangyou County took new socialist countryside construction as the opportunity, increased the investments to implement concrete road and asphalt hardening, initially realized "full concrete road in every village, full asphalt road in every township", constantly weaved county transportation network in density, and activated the county's rural tourism development. The 1-hour Tourism Circle has promoted the rapid development of eco-tourism industry of Shangyou County. From January to September this year, Shangyou County received more than 200,000 domestic and foreign tourists, up 20.65% compared with the same period of last year, and it achieved year-on-year increase of tourism comprehensive revenues for 20%.