General Survey of Highway Transport

At the end of 2002, the national highway, provincial highway, county highway, country highway and highway for special purpose including under-grade highway up to standard and with a width of 4.5 meter-above reached 1.765 kilometers.

Through structure adjustment of the second general investigation of highway, the mileage of national highway had reached 125 thousand kilometers, provincial highway 216 thousand kilometers, county highway 471 thousand kilometers, rural highway 866 thousand kilometers and highway for special purpose 87 thousand kilometers by the end of 2002.

Divided by the highway technical grade, the highway of all grades is: 25130 kilometer super highway, 27468 kilometer 1st-grade highway, 197143kilometer 2nd-grade highway, 315141 kilometer 3rd-grade highway, 818044 kilometer 4th-grade highway and 382296 under-grade highway. The mileage of up-to-grade highway has reached 1,382.9 thousand kilometers and accounted for 78.3% total mileage with an increase of 0.4 percent down last year. The mileage of 2nd and over-grade highway has reached 249.7 thousand miles and accounted for14.1% total mileage with an increase of 0.7 percent over last year.

Divided by the road surface grade, the mileage of all grades is: 288,644 kilometers of top-grade road surface, 433,244 kilometers of 2nd-grade road surface,437,581 kilometers of medium-grade road surface, and 442,321 kilometers of under-grade road surface. The mileage of the up-to-grade road surface has reached 1,601.8 thousand kilometers and accounted for 90.7% total highway mileage with an increase of 0.2 percent over last year. The mileage of top and 2nd-grade road surface has reached 721.9 thousand kilometers and accounted for 40.9% total highway mileage with an increase of 1.3 percent.

The provinces with 1000-above kilometer super highway reach 10, which are: Shandong (2,411 kilometers), Hebei (1,591 kilometers), Guangdong (1,741 kilometers), Jiangsu (1,704 kilometers), Sichuan (1,501 kilometers), Henan(1,231 kilometers) Liaoning (1,637 kilometers), Zhejiang (1,307 kilometers), Shanxi (1,070 kilometers) and Hunan (1,012 kilometers).

The mileage of county and rural highway had reached 1336.9 thousand kilometers with an increase of 59.5 thousand kilometers over last year. The density of highway nationwide was 18.4 kilometers/hundred square kilometers with an increase of 0.7 kilometers/hundred square kilometers over last year. 99.5% counties (towns) had access to highway with an increase of 0.2 percent over last year. 92.3 per cent administrative villages had access to highway with an increase of 0.5 per cent over last year.

The mileage of highway in the eastern region was 561.2 thousand kilometers, in the central region 607.3 thousand kilometers and in the western region 596.8 thousand kilometers and accounted for 31.8%, 34.4% and 33.8% total mileage of highway respectively. The second and above grade highway in the western region was 122 thousand kilometers and its density was 43.2 kilometers/hundred square kilometer, those in the central region were 83.5 thousand kilometers and 21.3 kilometers/hundred square kilometer, and those in the western region were 44.2 thousand kilometers and 10.9 kilometers/hundred square kilometer.

The mileage of highway maintenance had reached 1,661 thousand kilometers and accounted for 94.1% total mileage of highway and that of afforested highway was 940 thousand kilometers and 53.2% total mileage of highway.

Remarks:

1. The annual report of formal statistic data

2. The statistic data of Hong Kong, Macao Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan Province is not included