The Beijing-Qinhuangdao highway has opened to traffic with the Zunhua-Qinhuangdao section starting operation.
The newly-operated section between Zunhua and Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei province, is about 165 kilometers, roughly 48.6 kilometers of which was built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC).
The CSCEC-contracted section includes 36 bridges and seven tunnels, which account for about 47.9 percent of the entire section.
A key part of the "four verticals and four horizontals and one ring road" highway network under the traffic integration of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Beijing-Qinhuangdao highway is expected to shorten travel time between the two cities by half an hour, improve travel experience for people in Tangshan and Qinhuangdao of Hebei, advance regional transportation services and the investment environment, and boost regional economic and social development.
It will be a green link between Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and Northeast China.
A bird's-eye view of a section of the Beijing-Qinhuangdao highway [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
