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New expressways planned for China’s Guangxi Province

New expressway works are being planned for China’s Guangxi Province.
By MJ Woof January 19, 2021 Read time: 1 min
China’s Guangxhi Province is to benefit from new expressway links – image courtesy of © Indos82, Dreamstime.com
A massive programme of road construction is being planned in China’s Guangxi Province. The plans call for 30 new expressway links to be built.

Financing worth US$21.43 billion is being set in place to pay for the works, which will commence in 2021. In all the 30 expressways will total 2,109km in length and by the end of 2021, Gunangxi Province will have a total expressway network of 7,300km.

Construction work will commence on the first 10 of the expressway links totalling 551km between now and March 2021. In all, these 10 projects will cost over $5 billion.

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