VM 5133 G209 Gaoqiao to Wujiaping (Xingshan County)

China National Highway 209 (G209) runs from Sonid Left Banner,

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province. It is 3,435 kilometres in length and runs south from

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towards

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province,

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province,

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province,

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province, and ends in

province. Despite the "National Highway" designation, G209 is not of uniform quality throughout its length.See e.g. the characterization of the China National Highway 318 and China National Highway 209 as "unstable and unsafe" in
Yichang-Wanzhou Railway (SEIA)
(Asian Development Bank, June 2003), p.6 For example, as of 2009, the 20-kilometer section north of

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is nothing but a very poor dirt road. Nonetheless, even that section is of importance for the national highway system: it is used e.g. by long-distance buses plying the route between Badong and points east. Many parts of the Muyu to Hongping section (in

's Shennongjia Forestry District) are not much better. On the other hand, the section from the Shennongjia National Park entry to Muyu to Baishahe Village (in Nanyang Town, Xingshan County) is part of a recently upgraded

Yichang Yichang (), alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. It is the third largest city in the province after the capital, Wuhan and the prefecture-level city Xiangyang, by urban populati ...

- Shennongjia Highway.

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VM 5169 Xingshan County Baishahe Village

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File:G209-Yema-He-Shengli-Qiao-bridge-5459.jpg, Victory Bridge (built 1970, on the Yema He River, south of Hongping Town, Shennongjia) glorifies the victory of the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...

File:Shennongjia-Hongping-zhen-Wenshui-cun-5379.jpg, Improvements in progress ... (Wenshui Village) File:Shennongjia-G209-hairpin-turn-mirror-5464.jpg, Hairpin turns are equipped with mirrors on the well-maintained section south of Yazikou Junction (main access to Shennongjia National Nature Reserve)

References

External links

Official website of Ministry of Transport of PRC

209 Year 209 ( CCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Lollianus (or, less frequently, year 962 ''Ab urbe condi ...

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