China built 33,000 km of new freeways over the past five years, bringing the country's total to 74,000 km, said Li Shenglin, China's Minister of Transport on December 28, 2010.

The total is still short of the 100,000 km of expressways in the United States, the longest in the world.

Meanwhile, 639,000 km of new roads were built over the past five years, with 527,000 km built in rural areas, bringing the country's road length to well over 3.98 million km.