China Highway Construction

Aerial video shows the Tai 'an to Zaozhuang Taierzhuang Expressway passing through mountains in Zaozhuang city, Shandong province, China, July 27, 2022. By the end of 2021, China had built 117,000 kilometers of national expressways and 257,700 kilometers of ordinary national highways. The two-way sections with six lanes or more accounted for 20.9% of the national expressways, and 79.6% of the national ordinary highways with two lanes or more accounted for 79.6%. More than 98% of the pavement is paved with asphalt or cement concrete.