70% of toll highways located in China

时间：2007-08-09 00:42:13

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Chinanews, Beijing, August 8 – Currently there are 140 thousand km of toll1 highways in the world, of which 100 thousand km are located in China. Though the Ministry2 of Communications requires there should be only one toll station along every 40 km of a highway, some local governments have set up one toll station every 20 km along the high ways.

 

At first, the fees collected at toll highways are meant to pay the loans invested on building them. However, statistics show that toll stations along these highways have collected much more money than needed to repay the loans, so much that the practice has become a heavy burden upon the society.

 

For example, the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Highway has even generated a profit of 600 million yuan, and its manager has not shown any intention of stopping collecting tolls3. It is said that the Airport Expressway in Beijing has netted a profit of nearly 10 billion yuan, while it only cost 1.2 billion yuan to build it.

 

Many of these toll highways were built by local governments, and they were only allowed to collecting tolls for no more than 15 years. However, when the time limit draws near, some of the local governments have transformed the public highway into operational toll highways by selling them to other enterprises, while keeping the general public in the dark about it.

 
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1 toll LJpzo     
n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)
参考例句：
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
2 ministry kD5x2     
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
3 tolls 688e46effdf049725c7b7ccff16b14f3     
（缓慢而有规律的）钟声( toll的名词复数 )； 通行费； 损耗； （战争、灾难等造成的）毁坏
参考例句：
  • A man collected tolls at the gateway. 一个人在大门口收通行费。
  • The long-distance call tolls amount to quite a sum. 长途电话费数目相当可观。

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