| New
expressway opens to traffic in NW China (11/07/2002)
The expressway running through the Ningxia Plain, an area mainly
inhabited by the ethnic Hui people in northwest China, opened to
traffic Wednesday.
It is part of the national east-west trunk, linking Dandong, Beijing
and Lhasa cities. The expressway runs from Shizuishan to Zhongning
with a total length of 253 km.
The road brings the total length of expressway in Ningxia to 340
km. Ningxia is accelerating work on the expressway between Zhongning
and Haojiaji and between Taoshankou and Tongxin.
The region is striving to build an inter-province expressway network,
linking the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Gansu and Shaanxi
provinces, with a total mileage of 700 km by 2005.
(xinhua)
|
