Chinese province of Guizhou to invest over $75 billion in construction of high-speed highways

Beijing. July 2. Silkroadnews - Southwest China’s Guizhou province will invest more than 500 billion yuan ($75.6 billion) in the construction of high-speed highways in the next five years, Xinhua reports.
The province authorities have promised that the total length of the expressways will reach 10,000 kilometers by 2022, in accordance with the Guizhou plan for high-speed road construction, as released by the provincial transportation department.
New expressways will cover all the picturesque places, the main cities, railway stations and airports in the province, and also connect Guizhou with neighboring city clusters and economic centers.
The transport system was not developed in the mountain province mainly due to the complexity of the terrain. In recent years, Guizhou has been making efforts to improve the situation. As of 2015, all the counties in the province were connected by expressways, and by 2017 asphalt roads had been built for all the villages.