Massive Highway Expansion In China

30 October 2002 - 11:00am

China's high speed road network will grow to 22000 miles by 2010.

"The Chinese government has embarked on a huge expansion of its road network, and there seems to be no shortage of funds. Last week the vice-minister of communications, Hu Xijie, even promised to: "basically eliminate the traffic jam", by the year 2010. Bigger and better roads are being built within cities as well as between them. Nothing stands in the way of the emerging great car economy."

Source: The Guardian Unlimited, October 29, 2002
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