As part of this project implementation, on January 22, 2024, the Ministry of Transport and the CITIC CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD company (People's Republic of China) signed a memorandum of understanding on the reconstruction of the highway, as a result of which:
- the technical level of the road will be transferred from category II to category Ib;
- load capacity will be increased from 10 tons to 13 tons;
- the traffic capacity of vehicles on the highway will be increased from 21,000 to 40,000 on average per day;
- the width of the roadbed will be expanded to 38 meters in residential areas, to 25 meters outside residential areas;
- 14 existing bridges along the road will be reconstructed;
- the road will be converted from a 2-lane asphalt concrete pavement to a 4-lane cement concrete pavement.

We remind  that this road section of  0-75 km, reconstructed at the initiative of the Committee for Roads, is the main road connecting the city of Tashkent with the center of the Namangan region.