Beijing motorway network
Beijing is China's most important transportation hub. The rapidly growing automobile traffic in particular requires immense investments. The motorway network in Beijing is growing without interruption after the year 1991 Beijing by the Jingshi highway with Shijiazhuang was connected. There are now direct motorway connections to Badaling , Chengde , Tongzhou District , Harbin , Shenyang , Tianjin and Kaifeng .
Geographically, a little more than half of all motorways in the motorway network are located in the eastern part of the city. Due to the difficult geographic terrain, there are fewer highways in the west.
Beijing's highway network has been expanded considerably in recent years: two more highways in the direction of Tianjin have been built (the Beijing- Tianjin traffic corridor is very important for the economy), a direct connection in the east of Beijing (Pinggu district) has also been built and the 7th. Ring Road (which will form the new and presumably definitive border of Beijing City) was completed in 2016. Up to three more motorways are to be built in the area of the newly developed airport (north connection line, 2nd airport motorway and Litian motorway).
The Chinese motorway network is mostly equipped with speed restrictions (often 100–120 kilometers per hour). That is usually enough for traffic without traffic jams, the situation is comparable to the driving style in the USA.
The construction of a motorway follows a general plan and upon application and approval by the government. It is basically built according to the principle of “motorway construction by taking out money”, which is why it is always a toll motorway. Even the sixth ring road of Beijing is a charge (although it is one of the inner-city ring roads).
Highways and expressways in the Beijing area
- Airport Highway: Beijing City Center - Beijing Airport (Northeast Direction)
- Jingping Expressway: Beijing - Pinggu, S32 Provincial Road
- Tonyuan Highway: Beijing City Center - Tongzhou District, part of G102 National Road ( going east)
- Jingha Highway: Tongzhou District - Shenyang - Harbin , see G1 Highway , formerly G025 (eastbound)
- Jingjin Expressway: Beijing - Tianjin - Tanggu (heading southeast)
- Jinghu Highway: Beijing - Tianjin - Shanghai , see G2 Highway , formerly G020 (direction southeast)
- Daguang Highway: Beijing - Gu'an - Guangdong (Canton), see G45 Highway and G106 National Road (heading south)
- Jinggang'ao Highway: Beijing - Baoding - Hong Kong , see G4 Highway , formerly G030 (heading southwest)
- Jingkun Highway: Beijing - Taiyuan - Kunming , see G5 Highway (heading southwest) (under construction)
- Jingzang Highway: Beijing City Center - Badaling - Lanzhou , see G6 Highway (heading northwest)
- Jingxin Highway: Changping District - Ürümqi , see G7 Highway (heading northwest)
- Daguang Highway: Beijing - Miyun - Daqing , see G45 Highway (Northeast direction)
There are also six ring roads that make up the Beijing ring road network:
- 2nd ring road: At a distance of a few kilometers from the city center, see 2nd ring road (Beijing)
- 3rd ring road: At a distance of about 5 kilometers from the city center, see 3rd ring road (Beijing)
- 4th ring road: At a distance of about 8 kilometers from the city center, see 4th ring road (Beijing)
- 5th ring road: At a distance of about 10 kilometers from the city center, see 5th ring road (Beijing)
- 6th ring road: At a distance of around 20-30 kilometers from the city center, see 6th ring road (Beijing) (G45 01 motorway, Beijing motorway ring )
- 7th ring road: at a distance of about 50-100 kilometers from the city center, see motorway G95 (capital region ring motorway)