Transport in Inner Mongolia - China National Highway 209, China National Highway 207, Jingbao Railway, China National Highway 109 (Paperback)

Chapters: China National Highway 209, China National Highway 207, Jingbao Railway, China National Highway 109, China National Highway 210, China National Highway 110, Jitong Railway, China National Highway 303, China National Highway 301, China National Highway 111, China National Highway 208, China National Highway 302, China National Highway 304, China National Highway 305, China National Highway 306. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: China National Highway 209 (G209) runs from Huhhot, Inner Mongolia to Beihai, Guangxi Province. It is 3,435 kilometres in length and runs south from Huhhot towards Shanxi Province, Henan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, and ends in Guangxi Province. Despite the "National Highway" designation, G209 is not of uniform quality throughout its length. For example, as of 2009, the 20-kilometer section north of Badong is nothing but a very poor dirt road. Nonetheless, even that section is of importance for the national highway system: it is used e.g. by long-distance buses plying the route between Badong and points east. Many parts of the Muyu to Hongping section (in Hubei's Shennongjia Forestry District) are not much better. On the other hand, the section from the Shennongjia National Park entry to Muyu to Baishahe Village (in Nanyang Town, Xingshan County) is part of a recently upgraded Yichang-Shennongjia Highway. Near Wenshui village (Hongping Town, Shennongjia) Junction with a Hubei provincial highway in Baishahe Village, Nanyang Town, Xingshan County, Hubei. For the next 52 km to the north (to Muyu) G209 will follow the Xiangping River, doubling as part of the Yichang-Shennongjia Highway; for the 72 km to the southwest, it will cross to mountain ranges to get to Badong A not-yet-improved section of G209 j...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2290297