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The most prevalent type of gallery road is a wooden plank road anchored to cliffs using holes and wooden piles, subsequently covered with wooden boards. An alternative method involved carving stone roads directly into cliff faces. [1] Modern reconstructions of gallery roads incorporate materials like steel and stone to improve durability.
English: A 1959 map of China's supply network, including existing roads, roads under construction or projected, minor roads or trails, and interdicted roads. Date 17 April 1959
Deutsch: „Vollständiges Bild der Republik China“ im Anhang zum „Protokoll der sechsten Sitzung des Ersten Nationalkongresses“ English: “Complete Picture of the Republic of China” attached to the “Record of the Sixth Meeting of the First National Congress” printed in Taiwan
The ancient roads from Qin (Shaanxi) to Shu (Sichuan); = city, = county (县, xiàn), thin lines = ill documented The Shudao (Chinese: 蜀道; pinyin: Shǔdào), or the Road(s) to Shu, is a system of mountain roads linking the Chinese province of Shaanxi with Sichuan (Shu), built and maintained since the 4th century BC.
Through 1950s China planned and constructed a road through its western frontier in Xinjiang and Tibet (Hotan/Rutog). [5] [clarification needed] China announced completion of the road in September 1957. [6] [7] A number of reasons [weasel words] for building the road has been conceptualized, including cementing China's control over the region.
China National Highway 318 between Yajiang and Kangding, Sichuan. The building of highways is seen as key to accelerating infrastructure construction. In 2003, completed investment in highway construction was 350 billion yuan and 219 key highway projects progressed, focusing mainly on the five north–south and seven east–west national arterial highways as well as highways in western China ...
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Map of China's regions and major cities for use on Wikivoyage, multilingual SVG file: Date: 7 July 2008: Source: Own work based on the map of China by PhiLiP: Author: Cacahuate, amendments by Peter Fitzgerald and ARR8, translations by ClausHansen, Joelf, Alexander Tsirlin and Buernia: Other versions