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In order to reduce the cost and improve the traffic efficiency, the Ministry of transport has taken the removal of expressways and the promotion of etc as one of the important works since this year. At the end of the year, how is it going? On November 28, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of transport, Wu Chungeng, spokesman of the Ministry of transport, released three sets of data to show the results. The first group of data shows that since November 1 this year, all regions have turned to the stage of joint debugging and test of toll system. At present, the network communication link, system function, etc gantry and toll station system are being tested. According to preliminary statistics, as of November 27, spare links have been fully connected in 29 provinces with internet charging, and main links in 28 other provinces have been connected except Shanghai. The second group of data shows that 9023 toll stations have been connected in 9116 toll stations nationwide, accounting for 99%. Among them, 27 provinces including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Shanxi have 100% connectivity. The third group of data shows that China's 24113 sets of etc gantry systems have connected 23848 sets, accounting for 98.9%; 22 provinces including Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Liaoning have connected 100%. "It should be said that all aspects of connectivity work very smoothly." Wu added that in the first phase of the system function test, 4055 data interfaces in 30 provinces (including Tibet) have been fully connected, and the pass rate of data compliance test in the second phase has reached 99.2%. 26 provinces including Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Liaoning are all connected. The test of lane machines and tools, license plate recognition equipment of mainstream brands and roadside unit equipment in 29 provinces have been completed. In general, the joint commissioning and trial operation of the national toll collection system is progressing steadily and orderly according to the plan. In addition, other data shows that as of November 27, the total number of etc users in China has reached 175 million, 91.44% of the total issuance task. Among them, 93.847 million new etc users have been added nationwide this year, 85.18% of the new issuance tasks have been completed. In order to actively promote the installation and use of etc, in May this year, the general office of the Ministry of transport issued the notice on vigorously promoting the development and application of Expressway etc. it is proposed that from July 1, 2019, the Ministry of transport will strictly implement the basic preferential policy of no less than 5% vehicle toll for etc users, and realize the basic preferential policy of no difference for etc vehicles passing through the region. At the conference, Wu Chungeng stressed that according to the relevant policies and regulations, from January 1 next year, etc single card users will no longer enjoy the toll preference, and the vehicles need to park at the entrance and exit of the toll station to collect or return the composite pass with the function of path identification and billing.