Tibet lays in roads, to spend 178pc more in this 5-year plan than last
2012 04 20
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CHINA's Tibetan territory plans to invest CNY46.2 billion (US$7.3 billion) in roads in the next four years, 178 per cent expenditure increase against the period between 2005 to 2010, reports Xinhua.
The region aims to build a comprehensive transport network by 2015 by boosting construction of outbound mainline highways and rural highways. Tibet's total highway mileage will reach 70,000 kilometres with paved roads linking all its counties and covering 60 per cent of its towns and villages in 2015.
Tibet's highway operating mileage stood at 58,200 kilometres in 2010, while in 2011 the territory spent CNY8.5 billion (US$1.35 billion) to build 15 projects which increased to 4,600 kilometre of new highway, creating a total of 63,100 kilometre of road surface. Investment in road building will come to CNY9.5 billion this year.
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