Tibet highway spending US$3.9 billion from 2006 to 2010

TIBET's investment on roads and attendant infrastructure is expected be 29.4 per cent more than expected at CNY26 billion (US$3.9 billion) by the end of the five-year period from 2006 to 2010, which surpasses all that was spent in the previous 55 years, Xinhua reported.

From 2006 to 2010, Tibet road mileage increased from 43,717 to 58,000 kilometres. Fourth grade highways went from 10,905 to 32,049.85 kilometres. Road density per hundred square kilometres increased from 3.56 to 4.8 kilometres. Road coverage in countryside grew from 76.4 per cent to 100 per cent.

2010 was the mostly expensive year, estimated to hit CNY7.3 billion by 2011, up 21.7 per cent year on year with CNY670 million of that spent on rural areas.
(Source:www.schednet.com)