Infrastructure Construction Bearing Fruit
1 min readIn 2009, Guangxi continued to make transportation construction top priority,and completed the building of 21 new and extended railways within the year. Transportation construction mileage in the province reached 3, 000 km, with 646.68 km of newly completed railways, opening up rail connections to Wuzhou and Hezhou. An international passenger rail service was operning and Hanoi, making Nanning China’s only provincial capital to open international railway lines besides Beijing. A total of 1, 043 road and waterway construction projects were investment of 40.6 billion yuan, up 76%.Of these, 21 were new highways or highway extensions totaling 2, 176 km, both record highs in number and distance. The Guilin-Wuzhou Expressway opened to traffic. Coastal ports exceeded total handling capacity of 100 million tons, and construction of the 100-million-ton port was completed one year ahead of schedule. Construction of the 100-million-ton Xijiang River Golden Waterway Project went full steam ahead, and the handling capacities of inland ports also rise sharply.
