桂阳至嘉禾公路东起桂阳黄腊塘，续郴州—桂阳高等级公路，西至嘉禾县城，是湖南省道S322线（原1806线）的一段，是郴州市通往永州、广西的重要经济干线。在湖南省1999—2020年公路网规划和湖南2010年综合交通能信网规划中，本公路属于湖南省纵五横主干线公路网第五横的组成部分，是湖南南部唯一的的东西向公路通道，它与国道G107线和京珠高速公路形成完整的完整的两纵一横框架，战略位置十分重要，已列入湖南省“十五”
Golden Harvest Road, east to Guiyang, Guiyang, yellow wax pool, continued Chenzhou - Guiyang Highway, west Jiahe County, Hunan Road, S322 is the line (the original 1806 line) section, is leading to Yongzhou Chenzhou City, Guangxi, and important economic Link. 1999-2020 years in Hunan Province and Hunan road network planning can be a letter in 2010 integrated transport network planning in Hunan Province, the road is vertical and five horizontal trunk road network the fifth horizontal component of southern Hunan, the only thing to highway access, line it with National Highway and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway G107 a complete integrated framework for the two vertical and one horizontal, very important strategic position, has been included in Hunan Province, "15"