China’s roads ahead

The Ministry of Communications has mapped out a blueprint for the development of highways, coastal ports and inland waterway shipping in major regions, intended to guide the development of the country’s transportation infrastructure until 2020.

The blueprint covers such plans as the high-grade shipping network in the Pearl River Delta, a highway and waterway shipping development plan for the old industrial base of northeast China, a highway modernization plan, a waterway communication plan for the Yangtze River Delta, a high-grade shipping network

plan for the Yangtze Delta, and an inland river shipping development plan for western China.

Asia Times