Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region aims to build and upgrade 4,500 km of rural roads to link all its townships and villages by the end of 2019, local authorities said Thursday.
China's mountainous province of Guizhou said Thursday that it had built and upgraded 8,172 kilometers of rural roads in 2018 as it strengthened the fight against poverty.
The road network and conditions in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have been significantly improved, compared with conditions 10 years ago.
More than 83,400 km of roads in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region are regularly maintained, up from some 59,700 km five years ago, local authorities said Thursday.
A 4.5-km rail line has paved the way to wealth for a remote village in east China's Zhejiang Province.
Poor transportation infrastructure has hampered development of many parts of rural China. As the country announced it will eradicate poverty by 2020, central and local governments have spent heavily on rural roads and bridges.
The story of how a Chinese mountainous county, Songyang county in Zhejiang province, revitalized its villages through introduction of modern architecture is currently in exhibition at Berlin-based Aedes Architecture Forum.
China has set a goal to renovate 180,000 kilometers of rural road and 2,500 dilapidated bridges next year, to help lift people out of poverty and ensure better living standards, the Ministry of Transport said on Tuesday.
All of China's established villages with mature conditions will be accessed by bus services by 2020, pledged Li Xiaopeng, China's Minister of Transport during a recent interview.
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Southwest China's Tibet will strive to make highways reach all townships and administrative villages by 2020 in a bid to boost rural development.
Local transport authorities in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region said a total of 24,306 kilometers of roads had been added to the region over the past five years.
Yongan, a small city in Fujian province, has taken a number of innovative measures to put itself at the forefront of the province's effort to improve the quality of its rural roads.
The Agricultural Development Bank of China offered loans of over 859 billion yuan last year for agricultural and rural infrastructure development, the bank said in a statement.
While some Chinese metropolises have proclaimed "enough is enough" to shared bikes, fleets of two-wheelers have started rolling into the vast countryside.
