Urumqi, 3 Oct (Xinhua) -- This reporter learned from the Transportation Department of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang will invest 400 billion yuan in highway transportation construction, and strive to reach a total highway mileage of 220,000 kilometers (including the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and a high-speed (first-class) highway mileage of more than 10,000 kilometers.
Guo Sheng, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Autonomous Region, said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang will increase the G7 Jingxin Expressway and the G315 Ruoqiang-Yitunbulak Expressway; at the same time, in order to solve the problem of the north-south barrier between the Tianshan Mountains, with the support of the state, two highway passages from G575 Barikun to Hami and G0711 Urumqi to Yuli will be built by the end of this year.
Guo Sheng said that during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang will realize the comprehensive high-speed development of the Junggar Basin in northern Xinjiang and the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang, and basically realize the county-to-county highway (first-class) highway, all scenic spots above the 3A level through high-speed (first-class) highway, and the perennial port-through high-speed (first-class) highway.