Guangxi’s fixed asset investment in transportation doubled this year, keeping a stable developing trend. From January to September, the fixed asset investment in transportation added up to 27.7 billion yuan, 97% over the same time last year. As it has surpassed the 23 billion yuan of the total investment of last year, it is possibly to achieve 40 billion yuan this year.

Since the beginning of this year, the highway extension projects have gone on smoothly. Four of them may be open to traffic within the year. There are 10 highway extension projects this year, with a total length of 959 km and a total investment of 47.9 billion yuan. The investment in these projects this year is 16.6 billion yuan, and the 10.5 billion yuan has been invested during the first 9 months, making up 63% of the yearly plan.

Besides, the national and local highway network projects also went on smoothly. By the end of September, five national highway network projects, including Guilin to Sanjiang and Hechi to Du’an, all went on well. As for local highway network projects, seven of the eight planned projects have begun construction, and the last one is under preparation.

Guangxi has also started up fully the construction of Xijiang Golden Channel to advance the development of Beibu Gulf. During this year, a bunch of projects including the renovating project of watercourse in Liujiang River began their construction, and the feasibility report on the third and fourth water gates at Changzhou water hinge has been approved for a coming construction. The 2-line water gate of Guiping also goes on smoothly; the watercourse project from Guigang to Wuzhou will have trial transportation within the year. The Naji water hinge project at Youjiang has been completed and inspected. The No. 3 to No. 8 Berths at Qinzhou Bounded Port, the 20-ton water course and No. 403 to No. 407 Berths at Fangcheng Port are all under construction.