Good news! Data-driven rural road maintenance and management reaches a new level – Funan County Highway Management and Service Center receives an honor.

On September 20th, the 2025 World Manufacturing Convention – Data Element Comprehensive Pilot Zone Innovation Achievements and New Model and New Scenarios Matching Conference was held in Hefei. The conference released major recent data achievements of Anhui Province, signed a number of data projects, and recognized the winning projects of the 2025 "Data Element ×" Competition Anhui Division. The project "Multi-Source Data Fusion Empowering Intelligent Identification and Precision Maintenance Application of Rural Road Operation Status," jointly submitted by the Funan County Highway Management Service Center and our company, stood out from numerous participating teams and won the Excellence Award in this competition due to its outstanding innovation and application value.

This matchmaking event is an important release conference for the innovative achievements of the Data Element Comprehensive Pilot Zone, the award ceremony for the Anhui division of the 2025 "Data Element ×" Competition, and a scenario matchmaking conference for data empowering thousands of industries. As the latest window for Anhui Province to build a Data Element Comprehensive Pilot Zone, it brings together a number of cutting-edge technological achievements and typical application cases, promotes the transformation of important achievements of the Anhui division competition and the innovative achievements of data elements in our province in recent years, and helps the development of new quality productivity.

A high-profile competition, a major highlight of digital innovation in Anhui.

The 2025 “Data Elements ×” Competition Anhui Division was guided by the National Data Administration and the Anhui Provincial People’s Government, and hosted by the Anhui Provincial Data Resources Administration. With the theme of “Data Empowerment and Multiplication”, it focused on key industry sectors and set up tracks around 12 industry sectors such as industrial manufacturing and transportation, as well as 2 emerging industries such as artificial intelligence and low-altitude economy. A total of 902 outstanding teams from inside and outside the province participated.

Awards Ceremony for the Anhui Division of the "Data Elements ×" Competition

Data-driven solutions to long-standing challenges in rural road maintenance.

For a long time, the daily management and maintenance of rural roads has faced numerous challenges, including large scale, wide dispersion, and insufficient maintenance personnel. The Funan County Highway Management and Service Center, adhering to an efficient and pragmatic work style, has taken the lead in integrating multi-source data fusion, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies into maintenance practices, building a "data-driven, precise governance" intelligent management and maintenance system. This system effectively addresses the pain points and difficulties in rural road maintenance, comprehensively improves maintenance efficiency, and truly achieves "visible road network health, preventable risks, reliable decision-making, and sustainable maintenance," paving the way for a convenient transportation network to support rural revitalization.

Intelligent inspection equipment for rural roads      

Intelligent inspection system for rural roads

Seeing the road more clearly:By integrating multi-source data such as road condition monitoring, satellite remote sensing, and vehicle-mounted detection, "road network health visibility" can be achieved.

More accurate road protection:By leveraging AI intelligent algorithms to automatically identify road surface defects such as cracks and potholes, risks can be warned in advance, making "hidden dangers preventable".More convenient and practical for the people:By scientifically developing maintenance plans based on data models, we can improve the efficiency of rural road maintenance and pave a "safe, convenient, and efficient" transportation network for rural revitalization.

Digital intelligence leads the way, and government-enterprise cooperation empowers rural road maintenance.

Anhui Tongtu Information Technology Co., Ltd. has long been focused on the research and development of information and intelligent products and technical services for the transportation industry. This award-winning project fully demonstrates the application value of artificial intelligence and big data integration in the daily operation management of rural roads, and has significant demonstrative significance for improving the intelligent identification of rural road operation conditions and achieving precise maintenance. In the future, we will uphold the principles of "professionalism, pragmatism, and innovation," implement the national data element strategy and the requirements for digital transportation development, contribute to the high-quality development of "four-good rural roads," and contribute "Tongtu power" to accelerating the construction of a strong transportation nation and a digital China!