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	Expressways of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Expressways in China are a fairly recent addition to a complicated network of roads.
		One of the earliest expressways nationwide was the Jingshi Expressway between Beijing and Shijiazhuang in Hebei province.
		Expressways in China are signposted in both Simplified Chinese and English (except for parts of the Jingshi Expressway, which relies fully on Chinese characters).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Expressways_of_China (1572 words)

	Gold: The China Syndrome
		China is now the number one consumer in the world of copper, platinum, steel, zinc and iron.
		China is the fastest growing economy the world, and its voracious demand for everything from oil to copper is causing a spike in prices.
		China is also suffering a chronic shortage of electricity and plans to install 42 gigawatts of generating plant capacity this year alone, equivalent to the UK's entire installed capacity.
	www.gold-eagle.com /editorials_04/ing051404.html (2039 words)

	USATODAY.com - China's highways go the distance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		This year, it also has drawn attention to highway construction underway in China, which is in the midst of the greatest road-building boom since the United States began linking the Lower 48 with interstate highways in the 1950s.
		China's high-speed expressways, with speed limits of 75 miles per hour, grew by 4,163 miles in 2005 alone and will stretch 3,107 miles farther this year.
		China is stressing initiatives that minimize the damage of road construction.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-01-29-china-roads_x.htm (1063 words)

	PRC - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The PRC asserts the Republic of China to be an illegitimate and supplanted state and administratively categorizes Taiwan as a province of the PRC.
		China's territorial disputes have led to several localized wars in the last 50 years, including the occupation of Tibet in 1950, the Sino-Indian War in 1962, the Sino-Soviet border conflict in 1969 and the Sino-Vietnam War in 1979.
		There are currently 41,000 km (25,000 mi) of expressways in China, half that of the US Transportation in the mainland of the People's Republic of China has improved remarkably since the late 1990s as part of a government effort to link the entire nation through a series of expressways known as the National Trunk Highway System (NTHS).
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=PRC (6082 words)

	Official: China important factor driving US export (11/07/03) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		China has been the fastest growing export market of the US in the recent two years.
		In 2002, China was the United States' 7th largest export market, and is likely to be the 6th largest this year, according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
		Ma said China has clearly set up the goal of establishing a well-off society in an all-round way in the next two decades and quadrupling its GDP of the year 2000 by 2020.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/xw/t40349.htm (458 words)

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		Even a significant amount of goods movement in China is handled by bicycle, particularly for farmers selling their goods in the free markets and for the newly emergent small private businesses which had trouble gaining access to trucks, fuel oil, and parking.
		In other words, the.1% of the population wealthy enough to own a car in China is literally driving the majority of the population who are bicyclists or pedestrians from public streets with the threat of physical violence.
		With China's population density they will reach complete gridlock on their roadways much faster than here in the U.S. If the same percentage of people in China drove automobiles as drive them here in the U.S., they would have to pave over 40% of their arable farmland for new highways in order to accommodate them.
	www.itdp.org /ST/ST3/ST3CHINA.doc (2777 words)

	DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY_ Expressways Being Built at Frenetic Pace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		According to China's road planners, the answer is 24,000 kilometers per five years not driving, but building expressways.
		The length of expressways in China was 41,000 kilometers at the end of 2005, the world's second longest only after the United States.
		To facilitate the transportation of the same amount of goods and people, expressways use up 40 percent less land than ordinary roads, cut down vehicle emissions by almost a third and reduce traffic accidents by a third, he said.
	www.chinagate.com.cn /english/45626.htm (541 words)

	Green Car Congress: China
		China is the world’s largest producer of rapeseed, with 11.4 million tonnes of output in 2003 according to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
		China, already the world’s third largest ethanol producer, is planning on a dramatic expansion of its production and use of biofuels for transportation from about 1 million tonnes of ethanol and biodiesel in 2005 to 12 million tonnes in 2020.
		China’s growth in demand for oil surged ahead to 13.5% in May from May 2005 to 6.5 million barrels per day, according to calculations based on official data—the fastest rate since 2004, when overall demand grew around 15%.
	www.greencarcongress.com /china (9753 words)

	Tianjin, China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Tianjin was established as a municipality of China in 1927.
		After communist takeover, Tianjin remained a municipality of China, except between 1958 and 1967, when it was reduced to be a part of and the capital of Hebei province.
		Jinghu Expressway, from Jinjing Gonglu Bridge to Shanghai (together with Jingjintang Expressway, this is the expressway from Beijing to Shanghai)
	creekin.net /c2778-n40-tianjin-china.html (2535 words)

	Expressway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Under California's definition, many famous expressways would be classified as "freeways" instead of "expressways," such as the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, the Schuylkill Expressway in Philadelphia, and the Palmetto Expressway in Miami, Florida.
		Even though expressways are often free of private driveways, occasional exceptions of these include direct driveways to gas stations at intersections; and also, direct driveways present toward the ending of "expressway mode".
		The vast majority of expressways in either sense are built by state or provincial governments, or by private companies which then operate them as toll roads pursuant to a license from the government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Expressway (456 words)

	Beijing - Beijing - Travel to China
		Beijing is one of the 4 municipality of Chinamunicipalities of the People's Republic of China, which have a political divisions of Chinaprovincial-level status, and is under the direct control of the central government.
		The Communist Party of China changed the name to Beijing in 1949 again in part to emphasize that Beijing was the capital of China.
		The government of the Republic of China on Taiwan has not formally recognized the name change, and during the 1950s and 1960s it was common for Beijing to be called Peiping on Taiwan.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Beijing (4179 words)

	Expressways being built at frenetic pace_china_English_SINA.com
		According to China's road planners, the answer is 24,000 kilometres per five years not driving, but building expressways.
		The length of expressways in China was 41,000 kilometres at the end of 2005, the world's second longest only after the United States.
		To facilitate the transportation of the same amount of goods and people, expressways use up 40 per cent less land than ordinary roads, cut down vehicle emissions by almost a third and reduce traffic accidents by a third, he said.
	english.sina.com /china/1/2006/0404/71800.html (633 words)

	China: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		China proper consists of three great river systems: the Yellow River (Huang He), 2,109 mi (5,464 km) long; the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), the third-longest river in the world at 2,432 mi (6,300 km); and the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang), 848 mi (2,197 km) long.
		China remained largely isolated from the rest of the world's civilizations, closely restricting foreign activities.
		China is poised to have the world's fourth-largest economy, after the United States, Japan, and Germany.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107411.html (2617 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: The Week in Sustainable Mobility
		That total length of new expressways in China roughly equals the combined length of all expressways in Canada and Germany—the number three and four countries for expressway length—combined.
		China’s expressways stretched 41,000 kilometers at the end of 2005, the world’s second largest system only after the United States.
		By 2010, China expects to have around 65,000 kilometers of expressway, and plans to increase that to at least 85,000 kilometers by 2020.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/004315.html (2385 words)

	Transportation - China Travel Briefing
		A network of 750 domestic airlines is in operation in China, reaching 136 cities across the country with Beijing in the center.
		The sleeping carriages running on China’s railways are partitioned into compartments each containing four cushioned berths arranged in upper and lower levels.
		Inland Waterways The mainland of China is crisscrossed by a total of 226,800 kilometers of rivers, including 136,000 kilometers of inland waterways.
	www.chinaplanner.com /chinabrief/transprt.htm (753 words)

	Means of Transportation in China
		Transportation in ancient China was on poor condition.
		In 1998 alone, 37,000 km of highways were built, of those 1,487 km were expressways.
		Sampans, long famous in China, are still seen in Hong Kong harbor and plying the waters around China.
	www.chinahighlights.com /travelguide/transportation.htm (640 words)

	China: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		Gathering China into the Fold - On Oct. 10, 2000, China was granted permanent normal trade relations (PNTR), a 14-year effort that...
		China's Unstaffed Spacecraft - China launched its first unstaffed spacecraft from the Jiuquan Space Center in Gansu province on...
		China's international socialization: the role of international organizations.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107411.html (2683 words)

	Research-Works
		Miss the opportunity and be permanently disadvantaged, underperforming competitors as everyday China shows that it is starting to punch its weight economically.
		No more is China about potential and growth, it is now about mass and importance.
		As China transforms itself from a centrally-planned economy, dominated by state enterprises, to an economy driven by market forces where is the private sector?
	www.research-works.com (470 words)

	People's Republic of China
		The People's Republic of China has administrative control over 22 provinces (省); the government of the PRC considers Táiwān (台湾) to be its 23
		China runs a large but diminishing trade surplus with Japan.
		China Rises a documentary co-produced by the New York Times, Discovery Times, CBC, ZDF, France 5 and S4C.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_PRC (6363 words)

	Clean Air Initiative: Asia - China's Highways Go the Distance
		The record number of travelers - more than 2 billion journeys in the 40 days from Jan. 14 to Feb. 22, by government estimates - underscores the new mobility of Chinese society.
		The vast majority of New Year trips - 1.86 billion by the Ministry of Communication's estimate - will be made on the roads.
		2020: Expressway mileage likely to reach 53,000 miles; China likely to be world's leading carmaker.
	www.cleanairnet.org /caiasia/1412/article-70348.html (996 words)

	China Highway, Road Transportation - Travel China Guide
		Overland buses are the most important means of transport in many parts of China, especially where there is no railway line.
		The overall length of expressways has reached 9,083 km.
		China Hotel Booking: Up to 70% discount on your hotel room in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin, Xian...
	www.travelchinaguide.com /essential/highway.htm (543 words)

	China roads, highways, expressways, bridges, tunnels and plans - SkyscraperCity
		China roads, highways, expressways, bridges, tunnels and plans
		China has buit and opened more than 30000km high-quality expressways, and plan to build more than 80000km expressways by 2020, According to current building rate, I believe it will achieve that goal much earlier.
		It may be in Chinese because most of this kind of news are in Chinese.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=133180 (100 words)

	NPR : Military, Communists Escape China's Graft Crackdown
		NPR : Military, Communists Escape China's Graft Crackdown
		Day to Day, April 20, 2006 · Annual reports from "Iron Face" Li Jinhua, the head of China's National Audit Office, paint a scathing picture of endemic, high-level graft and corruption.
		Dozens of cabinet ministry officials have already been sacked or jailed as a result -- all unimaginable just a few years ago.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5353282 (162 words)

	Optimal Pricing Models and Implications for Toll Management of Expressways in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Optimal Pricing Models and Implications for Toll Management of Expressways in China
		This paper first presents optimal pricing models of urban highway and explains optimal prices, optimal capacity and their relationship.
		Then the paper applies the principles of the models to traffic characteristics analysis and toll management of expressways in China.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?0406530 (71 words)

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