Vehicles run on an "overwater highway", a highway linking Gufu Township and Zhaojun Bridge in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, Aug 9, 2015. The highway, which is 10.9 kilometers long, is built overwater on a river. [Photo/Xinhua]

Road network, highways to increase

According to the plan, China will have a total road network of 4.58 million km, an increase of 572,000 km from current length. The construction of 36 highways will be accelerated and the length of highways will be increased by 22,000 km.

The government plans to increase the use of electronic toll collection on highways, with 50 percent of highway coaches added to the system, a 20 percentage point increase compared with 2015.