Eight highway projects in Chongqing with a total length of 412km will be completed in 2009, taking the total highway length in the municipality to 1,500km, according to a local government website. The new highways include Shuijiang-Wulong, Wulong-Pengshui, Pengshui-Qianjiang, Shizhu-Zhongxian and Jiangjin-Hejiang, as well as the south, north and east sections of outer ring highway. The outer ring highway, the second ringroad in Chongqing, will be 186km long and will have a maximum speed of 100-120kph.
Overall, China added 6,433km of expressways last year, bringing the total of operational expressways to 60,003km, second in the world ranking behind the US which boasts about 100,000km.