Analysis of the Effect of the Highway Construction on the Economic Development of Underdeveloped Areas in China

摘要

It is a living and popular instruction for the significance of the road that "being rich begins with mending roads". Starting with the general development situations of the highways in foreign countries, the paper analyzes the positive and advanced effects of the highway construction on the economic development. By the statistical description of present situations of the highway construction in China, we find the situations in developed areas and underdeveloped areas are exactly out of balance. Then we discuss the important effects of the highway construction on economic development in China, which is summarized that the highway construction, as a modern transportation way, has a positive leading effect on the economic development.