Ministry eyes tollways cut, investment boost

A pledge to further cut the number of tollways and to enable more private enterprises to invest in roads was delivered by the Ministry of Transport on Tuesday.

By the end of last year, the Chinese mainland had 162,600 km of highways with tolls, including 106,700 km of toll expressways. The total length of these expressways is the longest in the world.

Toll highways comprised 3.6 percent of the mainland's 4.46 million km road network last year.