The World Bank's Assistance to China's Transport Sector
China's economic development
since the opening of its economy in the late 1970s has
resulted in an eight percent average annual rate of economic
growth. Key facets of this growth are rapidly increasing
domestic and foreign trade as well as increasing personal
mobility and consumption of energy. The deficiencies of the
Chinese road and highway system have in particular created a
bottleneck in China's economic development. The major