[photopress:logistics_superhighway.jpg,full,alignright]The government is determined to have a better network of road and water transport and emergency response system in place by 2010 in order to reduce the number of accidents.
The Ministry of Communications (MOC) expects that the new system will help cut the death rate per 10,000 commercial vehicles by 40% and reduce the rate of major accidents per 10,000 vessels by 10%, compared to the figures for 2005.
Measures include improving highway design, setting up more injury-prevention facilities and keeping overloaded vehicles off the roads.
Efforts will also be made to improve maritime rescue and salvage operations.
Song Jiahui, the director of the MOC’s rescue and salvage bureau said once these steps have been taken, rescue vessels will take no more than 90 minutes to reach an accident in key areas such as the Bohai Bay, Qiongzhou Strait and the waters around Zhoushan Islands.
Source: China.com
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