Indian road network years despite significant barriers and inefficiencies in inter-state freight and passenger movement compared to railways and air. The government of India considers road network as critical to the country's development, social integration and security needs of the country. India's road network carries over 65 percent of its freight and about 85 percent of passenger traffic. Indian road network is administered by various government authorities, given India's federal form of government. The following table shows the total length of India's road network by type of road as on 31 March 2016. In general, roads in India are primarily bitumen-based macadamised roads.
Rail transport in China world. The world's longest freight rail service runs from Yiwu, Zhejiang Province in eastern China to Madrid, Spain, a journey of over three weeks. Rail transport in China Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in the People's Republic of China. As of 2015, the country has of railways, the second longest network in the world, including of high-speed rail (HSR), the longest HSR network in the world. Almost all rail operations are handled by the China Railway Corporation, a state-owned company created in March 2013 from dissolution of the Ministry of Railways. China's railways are among the