By the end of this year, our country Total mileage of highway network It reached 3 million 984 thousand kilometers and added 639 thousand kilometers in five years. Among them, high speed The highway develops from 41 thousand km to the end of the "fifteen" period. 74 thousand kilometers In five years, it added 33 thousand kilometers, still living. World second Position.

Li Shenglin, Minister of communications and transportation 28, introduced the national transportation work conference held here. After five years of construction of the expressway, five main roads and seven horizontal roads were completed in 13 years ahead of the 12 national trunk lines. Major projects such as Hangzhou Bay Bridge, Sutong Yangtze River bridge, Zhoushan Island project, Qinling Mountains Zhongnanshan tunnel, Shanghai Chongming tunnel bridge project and Xiamen Xiangan tunnel have been completed.

In 1988, the expressway from Shanghai to Jiading was opened to traffic, and the highway in the mainland of China achieved zero breakthrough. Over the past ten years, the highway has been the main battlefield of traffic construction in China. By the end of 1998, the total mileage of expressways in China reached 6258 km, ranking eighth in the world, and 19 thousand km at the end of 2001, ranking second in the world.

At present, the United States has about 100 thousand km of highways, ranking first in the world.

According to the development plan of expressway network announced by the State Council, China is making every effort to speed up the construction of the main skeleton of the national expressway network. The new road network is composed of 7 capital radiuses, 9 north-south vertical lines and 18 East-West transverse lines. It is called "7918 nets" for short, and is expected to be basically completed at the end of 12th Five-Year.