交通部除继续加快西部地区国道主干线的建设外,将重点实施西部开发大通道工程,重点规划建设８条公路通道,约需投资１２００亿元。“十五”期间,规划中的西部铁路大中型项目基建投资将达１０００亿元左右,到２００５年两部铁路将达１８万公里西部开发 交通先行 Apart from continuing to speed up the construction of the trunk roads in the western part of the country, the Ministry of Communications will focus on the implementation of the Great Passage West Development Project and the key planning and construction of eight highway access roads, with an investment of about 120 billion yuan. During the “Tenth Five-year Plan” period, the planned investment in capital construction of large and medium-sized western railway projects will reach 100 billion yuan. By 2005, the two railways will reach 180,000 kilometers of traffic in the western part of the country