Seaboard province extends its transport reach

In the early 1950s, Jiangsu province had only 3,000 kilometers of roads, most of them nothing more than compacted earth.

Seventy years later, the province has 159,000 km of roads and residents of towns with a population over 100,000 can access a highway within 30 minutes, according to the provincial transport department.

But development hasn't stopped with the roads, and progress has been made in air, rail and water travel.