The municipal government of Chongqing has signed an agreement with Citic Infrastructure, Citic Guohua and Chongqing Expressway Group to build the Chongqing-Fuling section of the Chongqing Riverside Expressway at a cost of Rmb8.43bn. Work on the 96km section linking Chongqing city proper with Fuling is scheduled to start by the end of this year and to be completed in four years. It will contain 34 bridges and five tunnels, all with a designed maximum speed of 80 kph.

The 475km-long Chongqing Riverside Expressway is Part of the municipality’s expressway network that leads to Shanxi province.