The road infrastructure has basically formed as an extensive system in China, which played an important role in alleviating the "bottleneck" constraint of transportation on national economy and facilitated effectively theeconomic development and social progress in China. On the other hand, China is also experiencing apparent climate changes, which brings along adverse influence upon road system and reveals its vulnerability. This paper will introduce the climate changes in China featured of greenhouse effect and frequent extreme weather incidents and also damages caused by these changes on the road system. At the end, this paper talks about countermeasuresadopted by road authorities in China. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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