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Highways
In 1949, the length of highways
in China was just over 80,000 km, and more than one third of the
counties nationwide were not accessible by road. However, by 1999,
the total length of highways opened to traffic had reached 1.352
million km. Now, all counties, towns and townships are accessible
by road. After 1978, China began to build a large number of major
expressways, including the Shenyang-Dalian, Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu,
Guangzhou-Shenzhen, Jinan-Qingdao, Chengdu-Chongqing, Yichang-Huangshi,
Beijing-Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan, Shanghai-Ningbo and
Taiyuan-Jiuguan expressways. In 1999, there were 58,000 km of newly
built highways, 2,825 km of which were expressways.
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