On December 20, the ministry of transport announced that by December 18, the total number of ETC customers in China had reached 192,234,400, accounting for 100.72% of the total target of 19,085,600. The top three provinces are jiangxi (115.82%), guangdong (106.89%) and jiangsu (106.61%). The last three provinces are heilongjiang (82.09%), jilin (83.86%) and guangxi (84.39%).

In addition, the provincial toll station reconstruction, the national highway provincial toll station reconstruction of a total of 487, as of December 18, has been completed.

In may this year, the general office of the state council officially issued the implementation plan for deepening the reform of the toll road system and abolishing toll stations at provincial boundaries of expressways, making it clear that we will speed up the abolition of toll stations at provincial boundaries of expressways across the country and realize quick toll collection without stopping. In the related work of canceling toll stations at provincial boundaries of expressways, it is of vital importance to accelerate ETC promotion and popularization.

In order to actively promote the installation and use of ETC, from June 2019, ETC installation services will be provided to passing vehicles free of charge in the expressway service area and the eligible expressway toll station entrance plaza. In addition, Banks, gas stations, telecom operators, 4S stores, parking lots and other places where vehicles are concentrated will also provide ETC installation services.

What are the benefits of vehicle installation ETC? Sun wenjian, spokesman for the ministry of transport and deputy director of the policy research office, previously said: first, more convenient access. No need to stop at the toll station at the entrance of the expressway to collect and hand in the card; The second is to pay a discount. In addition to the general enjoy the basic discount of 95 % vehicle tolls, but also enjoy the related preferential policies of vehicle tolls; Third, there is a discount for refueling. Recently, the ministry of communications, together with petrochina and industrial and commercial bank of China (icbc), jointly launched a "kunlun ETC" co-branded card, which allows ETC users to enjoy discounts or partial cash back for refueling at petrochina gas stations. Fourth, parking is more convenient. The ministry of communications has instructed all localities to actively promote the application of ETC in large parking lots such as airports, high-speed railway stations, university campuses, ports, and logistics parks, and has built an ETC smart parking city on a pilot basis in shenyang, where ETC vehicles can pay a quick fee without parking.

However, vehicles without ETC will still be able to use the highway next year. After the cancellation of provincial toll stations, a small number of manual toll lanes will remain at the entrance toll stations. But first, the traffic efficiency of these vehicles will be low, because in the entrance and exit toll stations with large traffic flow, queuing may often occur; The other is the lack of access to toll discounts. Therefore, from the perspective of convenience to the public themselves, the ministry of transport recommends that car owners install ETC as soon as possible.