The city's position as a comprehensive transportation hub will become more prominent while the city's status as a regional freight hub will be consolidated by that time.

Improvement of Zhanjiang's transportation infrastructure will help to promote industrial upgrading, be it the port-based industrial cluster, the big data industrial park, or tourism based on coastal resources and intangible cultural heritage.

The city has attracted Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel and Zhongke (Guangdong) Refinery and Petrochemical and BASF's smart Verbund site, and has had many tourist destinations such as Loong Bay International Ocean Resort and Tianchengtai Resort linked with the traffic network in the past decade.

Large industrial projects have had a deep effect on the local economy and require more diverse professionals and technologies. The fast and convenient transportation system will help to reduce the cost of production and operation and enhance coordination and the certainty of economic development, experts said.