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China National Highway 318 between Yajiang and Kangding, Sichuan. The building of highways is seen as key to accelerating infrastructure construction. In 2003, completed investment in highway construction was 350 billion yuan and 219 key highway projects progressed, focusing mainly on the five north–south and seven east–west national arterial highways as well as highways in western China ...
The present-day network announced in 2017, termed the 7, 11, 18 Network (also known as the National Trunk Highway System, NTHS), uses one, two or four digits in the G-series numbering system, leaving three-figured G roads as the China National Highways. The new 7, 11, 18 Network is composed of 7 radial expressways leaving Beijing (G1-G7)
The Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway (Chinese: 连云港－霍尔果斯高速公路), designated as G30 and commonly referred to as the Lianhuo Expressway (Chinese: 连霍高速公路), is 4,243-kilometre-long expressway (2,636 mi) [1] in China that connects the cities of Lianyungang, in the province of Jiangsu, and Khorgas, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, on the border with Kazakhstan.
The Badaling Expressway and the Great Wall at Shuiguan. The expressway passes by the Great Wall of China in the Badaling region. As a result, it offers three exits which are linked immediately (or in the vicinity of) with the Great Wall. (Note: All of these exits are in the split section of the expressway heading out of Beijing.)
Shenda highway is claimed to be the first expressway in China mainland. It was planned as an express highway but was actually built as a freeway. Due to its length (400 km (250 mi)), it was opened section by section. Although the entire route was not completed until 1990, its first section had already opened in 1986.
Most municipal express roads are found in the inner districts of Shanghai, including several elevated highways which run directly above surface-level roadways. In Chinese, these expressways are literally termed city high-speed roadways (Chinese: 城市快速道路), and their maximum speed is typically 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph).
By the People's Republic of China's 50th anniversary, more expressways were being built in Beijing. The Badaling Expressway, Jingshen Expressway, and in 2000, the Jingkai Expressway were constructed. Beijing then had eight expressways. In 2001, the Jingcheng Expressway was built. The northeastern and southeastern parts were ready to accommodate ...
Highways in China, more often than not, refer to China National Highways. The fully controlled-access, multi-lane, divided routes are instead called expressways. As of 2017, there were 5,980,000 km (3,720,000 mi) of highways and 131,000 km (81,000 mi) of expressways in China; both total lengths are the longest in the world.