Lijiang airport expressway to open

Lijiang Airport Expressway will open to traffic on July 27, becoming the first expressway in northwest Yunnan province.

Built on Dec 23, 2009, the Lijiang Airport Expressway is an important part of the provincial highway S211 from Dali to Lijiang. It runs through Heqing county in Dali and the old town of Lijiang. The expressway passes Huaping county in Lijiang in the east to Panzhihua city of Sichuan province, heads for Lijiang airport in the south to Dali, goes to Tibet in the west, and passes Ninglang county in the north to Ganzi of Sichuan province.

At 27.63 kilometers, it takes only 20 minutes to get from the airport to downtown Lijiang. The project cost roughly 1.17 billion yuan ($183.5 million).