"Crackdown on highways fraud" from South China Morning Post

"The Ministry of Transport yesterday announced measures to tackle illegal spending on infrastructure projects amid concerns hundreds of billions of yuan are owed to banks for highways projects."


"The fact that 200 billion yuan is owed to banks by Guandgong expressway projects despite the many toll stations collecting fees was partly due to corruption and inefficiency, Zheng said.

Many expressways are built in remote parts of the province where there is not enough traffic to recover the costs through collected tolls, he said. "Such expressways should  never have been built in the first place," he said."