CHINA's southwest Yunnan province has started construction on the Longrui Expressway that is part of sea-land intermodal transport passage linking China to Burma, reports Xinhua.

    Longrui Expressway begins from Longling county and ends at Ruili city bordering Burma. It is also a part of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province to Ruili expressway. The two-way four-lane expressway is 128.4 kilometres long and 24.5 metre wide with a designed maximum speed of 80 kilometre per hour.

    The US$1.66 billion expressway will be completed in four years including building nine large bridges, 91 smaller bridges and 15 tunnels. It will cut driving time from Kunming to the Burmese border to eight hours.

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