The Chinese toll road has been open to traffic on a trial basis since July 1994.
Last week, the World Bank delivered the news that everyone wanted to hear: The Chinese economy is on the road to recovery.
If the Chinese say a road will be built from X to Y in z months, you can bet your last dollar that it will be.
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In 1945, a convoy of U.S. trucks from India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border, opening the Burma Road.
In the framework of the 6th edition of the Escale the town of Lacanau (Gironde), visitors are invited to follow the Silk Road as far as the Chinese border in the footsteps of the great travellers of the past.
To date, apart from the odd minor traffic accident with other road users, the Chinese troops keep themselves to themselves.
Even the road to the Chinese border was left as an unpaved dirt track.
Few Chinese ventured westward along the Silk Road and those that did, like Zhang, had very different motives.
The Chinese do not really have that many old vehicles to retire, so the number on the road is growing at a rapid clip.
Chinese soldiers in green camouflage uniforms lined the road.
When I was in Nairobi, I saw countless local road crews, supervised by Chinese foremen, fixing and expanding the roads.
Mr. Lee later told The Wall Street Journal that he is looking for Chinese investment to fund a toll road needed to bring high-technology investment to Bellevue.
His Chinese equivalent, the indomitable Xuan Zhang, who arrived here from the other end of the Silk Road in the 7th Century, mourned the destruction wrought by the White Huns.
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