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    Aug 11, 2022 3 minutes

    Road Chiefs

    China has established an extensive network of road chiefs across the country to manage roads in rural areas, Xinhua News Agency reported on August 2.

    By the end of June, the country had 641,000 of these chiefs, i.e., people in counties, townships and villages who are in charge of the maintenance and management of local rural roads, according to the Ministry of Transport (MOT).

    The road chief scheme covers 95.2 percent of county-level governments tasked with managing rural roads. China has also introduced similar programs, such as river chiefs,

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