The overall length of expressways in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has exceeded 6,000 kilometers, according to the region’s transport authority.
“The construction of expressways has been speeded up in our region this year. With some of the projects being completed, the expressways in Xinjiang have topped 6,000 km in length, forming a more convenient transportation network that allows people to travel across the region efficiently,” said Sun Xiankui, an official with Xinjiang’s transportation department.
The last section of the 2,822-km Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway-or the G7 national road network-opened to traffic on June 30. The route runs from Beijing, the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi and Gansu and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region to Xinjiang.