The Baojin Expressway/ Jinxiong Expressway () is a
highway
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in north
China
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, linking
Baoding
Baoding is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2020 census, Baoding City had 11,544,036 inhabitants, of which 2,549,787 lived in the metropolitan area made of 4 out of 5 urban distri ...
in
Hebei
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province with
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
municipality.
The expressway was first built in 1995 and opened to the general motoring public in mid-December 1999. It links
Baoding
Baoding is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2020 census, Baoding City had 11,544,036 inhabitants, of which 2,549,787 lived in the metropolitan area made of 4 out of 5 urban distri ...
,
Xushui
Xushui District () is a District of the People's Republic of China, district of the city of Baoding, Hebei province, China.
Administrative divisions
Towns:
*Ansu, Hebei, Ansu (), Cuizhuang (), Dayin, Xushui County, Dayin (), Suicheng, Xushui Cou ...
,
Rongcheng and heads east toward
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
, linking
Xiongxian and
Bazhou.
The 129 km-long expressway is designed for a speed that, as of May 2004, is the maximum speed legally tolerated on PRC expressways—120 km/h. (The Tianjin part, though, has a lower speed limit of 110 km/h.)
The western part links with the
Jingshi Expressway 118 kilometres after its starting point from
Beijing
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's
3rd Ring Road at
Liuliqiao. It is not far away from the city of
Baoding
Baoding is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2020 census, Baoding City had 11,544,036 inhabitants, of which 2,549,787 lived in the metropolitan area made of 4 out of 5 urban distri ...
.
The eastern end links with the
Waihuan (Outer Ring) Road in
Tianjin
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, which links to other expressways in the region, such as the
Jingjintang Expressway
Jingjintang Expressway (), also known as the Jingtang Expressway, links Beijing via central Tianjin to the Tanggu District in eastern Tianjin. 143 kilometres in length, it crosses the jurisdictions of Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and Hebei p ...
to
Beijing
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and
Tanggu
Tanggu District () was a district in the Tianjin municipality, now part of the Binhai New Area. It is on the Hai River where it enters the Bohai Sea, and is a port for Tianjin, which is about upriver. The Tianjin Economic-Technological Develo ...
, and the
Jinghu Expressway
Jinghu may refer to:
* Jinghu (instrument) (京胡), Chinese bowed string instrument in the ''huqin'' family
Places
* Jinghu District (镜湖区), a district in Wuhu, Anhui, China
* Jinghu Subdistrict (镜湖街道), a subdistrict in Ningjiang Di ...
to
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
.
Three service areas exist along the expressway.
{{Roads and Expressways of Tianjin
Expressways in China
Transport in Hebei
Road transport in Tianjin