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China's rural road length hits 3.3m kilometers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-22 09:23
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BEIJING: The total length of China's rural roads had reached 3.3 million kilometers by the end of 2009, connecting 99.4 percent of towns and villages, a transportation official said here Sunday.
Some 381,000 kilometers of roads were built in China in the past year, far exceeding the annual target of 300,000 kilometers, China's Vice Minister for Transport, Feng Zhenglin, said at a conference.
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Li Shenglin, Minister of Transport, vowed at the conference to boost rural passenger transportation.
Feng also vowed to improve the highway network that connects towns and villages this year and in the country's 12th Five Year Plan which starts in 2011.
