Highways to reach all townships in Tibet by 2020

Beijing. March 6. Silkroadnews - China will strive to set highways reaching all villages and administrative centers of Tibet by 2020 to improve the rural areas development, Tibet Online reports.
By 2020, all townships which meet necessary conditions and 80 percent of administrative villages would have access to bus service, said a senior transport official of Tibet Autonomous Region. Road construction will help the region reduce poverty and increase the income of farmers and herders, the report reads.
The projects on construction of asphalt and cement roads to 13 townships and more than 1000 villages will start in the region this year.
Due to heavy investments in the sector the length of rural roads in Tibet currently makes 60,421 km, compared with 53,244 km in 2012.