China to build 5,000 km expressways this year, including one connecting Beijing and Taiwan Straits
3/1/2007 11:58
China will build 5,000 kilometers of expressways in 2007 to complete the
trunk lines of its national highway network, said sources with the Ministry of
Communications (MOC). The 36,700-km trunk lines of the network are composed
of five north-south highways and seven east-west highways, with 2,385 kilometers
to be completed. One of the major expressways, which is 2,500-km-long, will
connect Beijing and Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province on the west side of the
Taiwan Straits. China currently has 45,400 kilometers of expressways at both
national and local levels, the second-largest in the world aftr the United
States. In 2007, MOC said China would build or upgrade 300,000 kilometers of
roads in vast rural countryside. About 260,000 kilometers of roads was newly
built or improved in China's rural areas last year. Now passenger bus have
extended to 83 percent of Chinese villages.
Xinhua
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