Investigating the development of Chinese rural roads

Dang Xiao-xu and Wang yuanqing

Abstract

In recent years, rural road construction plays the most important role in promoting rural development. Therefore, it is recommended by the government to make rural road construction as the primary means of promoting rural development. How to build rural road to promote rural development effectively became a major issue that transport departments faced. This paper presents some key findings about, considering limited financial resources available for rural road construction, what types of rural roads should be built, how they should be built, and what will be the impacts on rural development.c