Transportation Scenes in Modern China - 2008

Heavy Transport - 34

Originally, China had been carrying out an ambitious plan to build up a 35,000-kilometer national trunk highway system before 2020. The main objective of the NTHS was to construct 12 high standard trunk roads: five longitudinal roads and seven latitudinal roads. 70% of the trunk roads are expressways. The end of 2007, 13 years ahead of the original plan, has completed this project. By the end of 2007, there were already 3.57 million km of highways, which includes 53,600 km (33,310 miles) of expressways.