| Abstract | Coastal Shandong, one of China's best developed provinces, has been making consistent efforts to upgrade existing highways and build new ones, especially in the eastern section, to facilitate its opening to the outside world. Officials of the Provincial Communications Bureau said the extent of highgrade highways increased by 400 per cent over the past eight years, reaching more than 10,000 kilometres by the end of 1994 - nearly a quarter of all the roads in the provinces. Most of the new roads are in eastern Shandong, linking Jinan, the provincial capital, with the seaports - Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai and Rizhao - which face Japan and the Korean peninsula across the Yellow Sea. |
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