Billion Dollar link for China

China's Gansu Province is to benefit from a major new highway connection. Work on the Cheng county-Wudu highway is scheduled to start at the end of August 2010.
February 24, 2012 Read time: 1 min
China's Gansu Province is to benefit from a major new highway connection. Work on the Cheng county-Wudu highway is scheduled to start at the end of August 2010. This will be a major new multi-lane highway and is expected to cost in the region of US$1.61 billion to complete. The Cheng county-Wudu highway will stretch 90.5km when it is open to traffic.

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