湖北省位于长江中游,全省面积189,000多平方公里,山地、丘陵占总面积的70％,平原占23％,河湖占7％,人口4,700万。全省共有八个地区、六个省辖市、七十八个县(市)。解放前,湖北省公路交通十分落后,1922年才开始有公路,到1949年解放时仅有破烂不堪的公路3,000公里。建国三十多年来,在党和政府的领导下,公路建设事业突 Hubei Province is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The province covers an area of ​​more than 189,000 square kilometers. Hilly and hills account for 70% of the total area, plain area accounts for 23%, rivers and lakes account for 7% and population 47 million. The province has a total of eight regions, six provincial cities, seventy-eight counties (cities). Before the liberation, the road traffic in Hubei Province was very backward. Only in 1922 did it begin to have roads. By the time of the liberation in 1949, there were only 3,000 kilometers of broken roads. Thirty years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, under the leadership of the party and the government, there has been a sudden breakthrough in road construction