By David Trayner
The Communist superpower is building a six-lane highway in a sparsely populated area of its cold and windy north east.
The massive new motorway snakes across an area where very few of the local peasants have a car and there is little traffic or trade.
It’s destination? The North Korean border.Experts believe there can only be one explanation for the so-called G1112 Ji'an–Shuangliao Expressway: getting tanks and troops to the border quickly.
Daily Star Online has obtained pictures from inside China of the huge construction.The giant road is being built through China’s Jilin Province to Ji’an.
The border town has a population of just 230,000 – which is tiny by Chinese standards.
More than 24million people live in capital Beijing and there are a staggering 34million in Shanghai.
It is hard to think of many cities in the UK that would need a six-lane motorway.
But Ji’an lies just across the Yalu River from Manpo, in North Korea.A new bridge was opened across the river earlier this year.
And Daily Star Online can reveal China has been investing heavily in building infrastructure across the border – inside North Korea.
Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on US-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Daily Star Online: “Jilin province has even budgeted and paid for improvements in road infrastructure inside some parts of North Korea in recent years in order to improve logistical access to the Rason port inside North Korea.”
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