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Hainan to speed up highway, port construction
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-02-18 09:45
A five-year blueprint was mapped out by South China's Hainan Province to
stress the need of accelerating highway and port construction in a bid to
promote local economic development.
The province will invest a total of 17 billion yuan (about 2.125 billion
U.S. dollars) in infrastructure construction during the country's 11th
Five Year Program (2006-2010) for National Economic and Social
Development.
According to a work conference of the Hainan provincial government in the
sector of traffic reform, 11 billion yuan of the total investment will be
used to build or rebuild highways linking all the cities and villages in
rural areas across the province.
By 2010, Hainan will build a network of tar-paved roads covering 85
percent of villages across the rural areas. The traffic network will
provide economically-backward counties and remote villages access to the
outside world.
Meanwhile, the province will use the rest of 6 six billion yuan to
construct shipping facilities and berths at its major ports of Haikou and
Sanya.
In 2006 alone, the province will pour 2.7 billion yuan into building more
than 3,000 km of highways and roads in rural areas.
China is making efforts to accelerate rural reform and governments at all
levels are working hard to improve agricultural infrastructure, such as
road construction, telecommunications and electricity networks.
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