Freeway Completed in Anhui Province

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 ◆ Freeway Completed in Anhui Province

A 54-kilometer freeway in east China's Anhui Province was completed on July 1, a step in the construction of a much longer artery road connecting China's east with west.

The new freeway, part of a national freeway designed to link Lianyungang City in the coastal province of Jiangsu and Helgus in China's central Asian region of Xinjiang, has four lanes and allows speeds of up to 120 kilometer per hour.

Some 1.14 billion yuan was spent in this section of the Lianyungang-Helgus freeway.

The new road is expected to further exchanges and cooperation between China's less-developed west and economically advanced east.